mindmap root((工具)) implement may apply to anything necessary to perform a task: lawn and gardening ~s. tool suggest an implement adapted to facilitate a definite kind or stage of work and suggests the need of skill: a carpenter's ~s. instrument suggests a tool or device capable of performing delicate or precise work or one precisely adapted to the end it serves: the surgeon's ~s. appliance refers to a tool or instrument utilizing a power source and often adapted to a special purpose: modern ~s that take the drudgery out of housework. utensil applies to a device, tool, or vessel, usually with a particular function, used in domestic work or some routine unskilled activity: knives, graters, and other kitchen ~s.