instrument
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɪnstɹəmənt/, /ˈɪnstɹʊmənt/
instrument (plural instruments)
- A device used to produce music.
- The violinist was a master of her instrument.
- A means or agency for achieving an effect.
- A measuring or displaying device.
- The instrument detected an increase in radioactivity.
- A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
- The dentist set down his tray of instruments.
- The scientist recorded the temperature with a thermometer but wished he had a more accurate instrument.
- (legal) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
- A bond indenture is the instrument that gives a bond its value.
- Negotiable instruments are the foundation of the debt markets.
- (figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene ii]:
- Or useful serving man and instrument, / To any sovereign state.
- The bold are but the instruments of the wise.
- See also Thesaurus:instrument
- French: instrument
- German: Instrument, Musikinstrument
- Italian: strumento
- Portuguese: instrumento
- Russian: инструме́нт
- Spanish: instrumento
- German: Instrument, Meßinstrument
- Italian: strumento
- Portuguese: instrumento, aparelho
- Russian: прибо́р
- German: Werkzeug, Instrument
- Italian: strumento
- Portuguese: instrumento
- Russian: инструме́нт
- Spanish: instrumento, herramienta
- French: acte
- German: Dokument, Urkunde
- Russian: инструме́нт
- Spanish: instrumento
- German: Handlanger
- Spanish: instrumento
instrument (instruments, present participle instrumenting; past and past participle instrumented)
- (transitive) To apply measuring devices.
- (transitive) To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.
- To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.
- a sonata instrumented for orchestra
- (to apply measuring devices) measure, supervise
- (to devise, conceive)
- (to perform on an instrument) play
- (to prepare for an instrument) arrange
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