The phrase "a kind of tool" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is similar to a tool, but may not fit into a specific category or may not be considered a traditional tool. Example: The Swiss Army knife is a versatile pocketknife that has a variety of blades, corkscrews, and other tools built into it. It is considered a kind of tool that is useful for various tasks, from opening a bottle of wine to tightening a screw on a piece of furniture.
As a kind of tool, grid security infrastructure (GSI) provides the authentication and authorization services and so on.
The eSniff program is a modified version of a kind of tool used for network maintenance, a so-called packet sniffer.
We will also consider how race itself is a kind of tool designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice and discuss how technology is and can be used toward liberatory ends.
"An apology will give us a kind of tool to persuade the soldiers who were attacked in the guard post; they are mostly illiterate and come from remote valleys and provinces," he said.
Early Auden: a poet born in the city of York, the son of a doctor, interested in natural science and in scientific ways of knowing; a poet for whom science was not an enemy but rather a kind of tool, a point of view or perspective, expressed importantly for early Auden in the work of Freud; the work of Freud but also the work of Marx.
The vision of ethnology as a kind of tool and the fact that its application outweighed disciplinary demarcation was due to the absence of strict boundaries among ethnology, sociology and anthropology in China.
And the pace of drilling is the same, said Eric Jackson, who as a tour pusher — a kind of deputy tool pusher, or drilling manager — was leading the crew working on the casing tool.
Beyond their security uses, however, cameras can function as a kind of management tool.
Beyond promoting tighter management, the atlas now serves as a kind of surveillance tool.
When it is finished, the ark will be a kind of teaching tool.
Other projects use audience participation and oral history as a kind of advocacy tool.
