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instrument

noun as in tool, implement

noun as in means, agent

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Example Sentences

It carries a host of scientific instruments to observe the sun and its surroundings.

These are financial instruments that insurers and reinsurance companies use to hedge their own risk—and which specialized funds and hedge funds often invest in for their potential outsized returns.

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Once you’ve taught 250 seventh graders to play instruments in unison, everything else is pretty straightforward.

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So, no, I don’t have all the instruments to force companies to do so.

Major instruments use large, curved mirrors to capture the light raining down from the night sky.

Law has been rebuilt in the last 50 years to be an instrument of control, not a framework for human responsibility.

And the chord structure, for those of you who play an instrument, is unexpected and worth checking out.

Even his signature instrument, Auto-Tune, has become as accepted an ingredient in hip-hop as the drum machine.

No matter how admirable or inspiring his message appears to be, it often hits you over the head like a blunt instrument.

Sisler is described as a “Medical/Surgical instrument technician” in his own court declaration.

I called it a spinet, because it somewhat resembled that instrument, and was played upon in the same manner.

A fancy came into my head that I would entertain the king and queen with an English tune upon this instrument.

Where these overtones are interfered with by any imperfection in the instrument the result is a harsh or imperfect sound.

The sun when he appeareth shewing forth at his rising, an admirable instrument, the work of the most High.

The von Fleischl has long been the standard instrument, but has lately fallen into some disfavor.

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What are other ways to say instrument?

An instrument is anything used in doing a certain type of work or producing a certain result, especially such as requires delicacy, accuracy, or precision: surgical or musical instruments. A tool is a contrivance held in and worked by the hand, for assisting the work of (especially) mechanics or skilled laborers: a carpenter’s tools. An implement is any tool or contrivance designed or used for a particular purpose: agricultural implements. A utensil is especially an article for domestic use: kitchen utensils. 

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On this page you'll find 79 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to instrument, such as: apparatus, appliance, device, equipment, gadget, and gear.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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