Instrument - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- the means whereby some act is accomplished (syn: tool)
- (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right
- the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process
- any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds
verb
- write an instrumental score for
- address a legal document to
Extra examples
The piano was his favorite musical instrument.
Do you play any instruments?
I would never be an instrument of bringing a free and brave people into slavery.
Interest rates are an important instrument of economic policy.
Good management should be an instrument for innovation.
Death was due to a blow on the head with a blunt instrument.
The sewing-machine is the instrument of the tailor in the making of a coat.
The Church is the instrument of man's salvation.
The new instrument is expected to produce relatively higher interests.
The instrument is chiefly used to measure and record heart function.
This instrument measures wind speed.
...discordant tones coming from the poorly tuned instrument...
... he listens to a group of Malaysians playing reedy, plangent music on some esoteric kind of wind instrument.
...the gyroscope got its name for the way the disk inside the instrument gyrates around an axis...
The marimba is a percussion instrument.
Word forms
singular: instrument
plural: instruments
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