| 单词 | instrument |
| 释义 | instrument (ɪnstrəmənt ) Word forms: instruments 1. countable noun An instrument is a tool or device that is used to do a particular task, especially a scientific task. ...a thin tube-like optical instrument. ...instruments for cleaning and polishing teeth. The environment itself will at the same time be measured by about 60 scientific instruments. Synonyms: tool, device, implement, mechanism 2. countable noun A2 A musical instrument is an object such as a piano, guitar, or flute, which you play in order to produce music. Learning a musical instrument introduces a child to an understanding of music. 3. countable noun An instrument is a device that is used for making measurements of something such as speed, height, or sound, for example on a ship or plane or in a car. ...crucial instruments on the control panel. ...navigation instruments. 4. countable noun Something that is an instrument for achieving a particular aim is used by people to achieve that aim. The veto has been a traditional instrument of diplomacy for centuries. [+ of] Synonyms: agent, means, force, cause 5. See also stringed instrument, wind instrument Collocations: instrument maker Founded in the early 1700s, the firm established itself as a surgeons' instrument maker, cutler and toy maker. Times, Sunday Times Earlier writers have confidently described him as an inventor and watchmaker; a nautical instrument maker; and even as an experienced navigator. The Times Literary Supplement The company could be mistaken for an artisan instrument maker but it has emerged as a genuine high-tech pioneer with global potential. Times, Sunday Times You park at the edge of the village, then walk up the steep cobbled alleys, dropping in on the workshops of the potter, the musical instrument maker and so on. Times, Sunday Times At sixteen years of age he was working as a mathematical instrument maker. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For example, a button may indicate anything from a cheer, handclap, whistle, musical instrument sound, or other various supportive sounds. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to those of a violin. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It offered 16 preset patterns, and four buttons to manually play each instrument sound (cymbal, claves, cowbell and bass drum). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He added that the pink sails reflect the wind instrument sound of the string section. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 During their entire history the company has paid high attention to detail, and kept their size limited to be able to make each instrument sound its best. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Accuracy depends on the measuring instrument. Times, Sunday Times In some cases, the physics of the measuring instrument may have a large effect on the data. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Every measuring instrument has error when readings are taken. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Counts are only manifested in the reading of the measuring instrument, and are not an absolute measure of the strength of the source of radiation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Additionally, attempts to hold the measuring instrument level would be made. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 All four members still work full time at construction or in tropical fish, record and music instrument stores to pay living expenses. Globe and Mail Movement of objects occurred in the room and a music instrument was played. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Music majors may join the band on their primary college of music instrument (brass or saxophone) without this initial audition. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Undergraduate faculty teach the standard orchestral/chamber music instruments and composition. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was able to play almost every kind of the music instruments. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To get detail as fine as that from an optical instrument, radio telescopes therefore have to be much larger. Times, Sunday Times A number of pieces from his optical instrument collection were placed on display there. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His sound education in mathematics enabled him to apprentice using a borrowed theodolite, a calibrated optical instrument used to determine relative position in surveying, navigation, and meteorology. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It achieved an average annual rise of 328% in its international sales to 8.1m after exceptional demand for its optical instruments fromairports around the world. Times, Sunday Times It uses precision-engineered mirrors and other optical instruments to gather visible light and near infrared and near ultraviolet light. Times, Sunday Times Partly that's because the ensemble's line-up - basically one each of every orchestral instrument - more or less dictates a certain sonic spectrum. Times, Sunday Times When before had a rock band incorporated such an unusual orchestral instrument as the oboe in its aural chemistry? The Sun The college's first intake of scholarship students included 28 who studied an orchestral instrument. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As an orchestral instrument, it has been used in several compositions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His work led him to be given credit for adding to the mandolin's successful rise as an orchestral instrument. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Learning to play an instrument may well increase the number of connections. Times, Sunday Times In my own paltry case, it took me years to learn to sight-read, to play an instrument, to listen. Times, Sunday Times Then they become motivated to play an instrument with a beater and to hold it longer because they enjoy it. Times, Sunday Times Just about the only thing he could not do was play an instrument. Times, Sunday Times Ideas about the arts and sciences were what mattered and you were encouraged to write, paint or play an instrument. Times, Sunday Times We need only one straightforward policy instrument for each. Times, Sunday Times Energy taxation has been used as a policy instrument ever since the oil crisis of the 1970s to support renewable energy and nuclear power. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If central banks usually target the shortest-term interest rate (as their policy instrument) then this leads to the money supply being endogenous. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Statutory caps as they exist now are too blunt a policy instrument to sufficiently address quality. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If you want to fight inflation then you must use the best policy instruments to do so. ST But her most powerful instrument was her deep, warm, versatile, strikingly mature voice, which added rousing torch-song glamour even to the lesser numbers. Times, Sunday Times We see business as a powerful instrument for aligning the human experience with its original design. Christianity Today His voice remains a powerful instrument, injecting even the weaker tracks with a heady soulfulness. The Sun Distributions are a powerful instrument to solve differential equations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Jokes throughout history have been a powerful instrument to undermine state authority and the public truth associated with it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 On the extended lunar missions, an orbital scientific instrument package was carried. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This large and frequently updated data source has been described as a new type of scientific instrument for the social sciences. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Sometimes the kits contained parts which could be assembled into a scientific instrument. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He patented the device and received royalties from a scientific instrument company making the devices until the patent expired. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The proposal included a limited focus and a single primary scientific instrument. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Then the team chose four sculptures and ran further tests using a larger, more sensitive instrument. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Such rays have defied close study ever since; instead, the telescope turned out to be the most sensitive instrument built to that point for gathering radio waves from outer space. Times, Sunday Times Every time we repeat a measurement with a sensitive instrument, we obtain slightly different results. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A sensitive instrument can detect changes of as little as one arc second. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To detect the tiny tremors in the ground, researchers commonly use sensitive instruments called seismometers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He used a sharp instrument instead of a blunt one. Times, Sunday Times Into the vein itself with a sharp instrument or around the vein with a blunt instrument. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This area can be envisioned as a sphere with a person and a sharp instrument at its center. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When demineralization of enamel occurs, a dentist can use a sharp instrument, such as a dental explorer, and feel a stick at the location of the decay. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Her first patient sees the sharp instruments and balks at another treatment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There were certainly more than five of every solo instrument, at least 19 percussionists, and offstage brass into the bargain. Times, Sunday Times But too often the solo instrument and orchestra, not to mention the disparate classical traditions, were too dislocated to sustain this harmonious but flawed concerto. Times, Sunday Times Very much a folk instrument, genggong was traditionally played only as a solo instrument or with small numbers of other genggong as informal entertainment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Eleven sonatas for solo instrument plus piano survive, as do two of his three string quartets. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Duet music for any two of the family still exists, and the bass, alone, was a popular solo instrument. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By a sophisticated instrument, known as an optical interferometer, any length can be measured in terms of the wavelength of laser light. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 From the 19th, futures and options offered more specialised and sophisticated instruments: the first derivatives. Times, Sunday Times Inter-dealer brokers sit between financial institutions that want to deal in derivatives and other sophisticated instruments. Times, Sunday Times Yet scientists have analysed it using sophisticated instruments designed to measure radioactivity and found no reading. Times, Sunday Times The decision by many pension fund trustees to manage their funds' ballooning liabilities with more sophisticated instruments has given the banks an ideal opportunity to tout their wares. Times, Sunday Times A firm of surgical instrument makers approached the school looking for a trainee and offering a weekly wage of 12 shillings and sixpence, or 62½p in today's money. The Sun When the surgical instrument went out of use, the cell became known by its present name. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His engineers training enabled him to design and make new types of surgical instrument. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This allows the surgeon to insert the video camera (endoscope) in one hole and a surgical instrument in another. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Synergy employs 5,100 people, who launder 90 million items of linen and sterilise 80 million surgical instruments annually for hospitals. Times, Sunday Times Nanny's monument reproduces the sound of the abeng, a traditional instrument used by the fighters. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Well into his eighties, he had been playing the traditional instrument since the late 1920s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The interior has also been completely redesigned, with the use of a more traditional instrument cluster and notably higher-quality materials. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Instruments had to be designed and made in a way that they stayed true to the traditional instrument. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When string instruments were played, the barbiton was the traditional instrument. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As he did not know how to tune the instrument, he invented his own unique method. Times, Sunday Times It's not easy to tune the instrument and needs some skill. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the 1990s, many guitarists tuned their instruments down a half-step. Christianity Today Eventually, you satisfy yourself that you have tuned the instrument, nothing could possibly go wrong now - then you strum one simple chord and the whole thing sounds appalling. The Times Literary Supplement He also tuned his instrument up minor third to match his voice. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The portable instrument used instead just didn't hit the spot. Times, Sunday Times (2017) What was the principal debt instrument used? Financial Markets, Institutions and Money (1995) The instrument used to measure the students' mathematics achievement was an essay test. 2018, 'THE DIFFERENCE OF STUDENTS' ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS BY USING GUIDED-DISCOVERY LEARNING MODEL AND COOPERATIVE LEARNING MODEL JIGSAW TYPE', Infinity He would repair every kind of brass and woodwind instrument. The Sun Asked to write down her choice of instrument, she opted for it because she thought it was a kind of woodwind instrument. Times, Sunday Times Unlike other digital wind controllers, the breath actually flows through the instrument, making it feel similar to an acoustic woodwind instrument. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Woodwind instrument bores were redesigned to extend their range and improve their tone quality. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He plays the duduk, a double reed woodwind instrument related to the orchestral oboe. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 仪器, 乐器 Japanese: 器具, 楽器 |
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