What separates a tool and an input in theory of value?

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Like the title says, what is the difference between a tool of creation and an input? Is there a difference? A lot of people argue that land is an input of value but to me it seems more like a tool, similar to a sewing machine, in that it is specific to creating that commodity and is not needed in others. Am I wrong on this, and If I am how so?

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If you have a sewing machine, you can make a shirt. Afterward, you can still use the sewing machine to make more shirts.

If you have land, and use it to make a building. The land does not facilitate making another building. If you want to put up another building, you need another piece of land.