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单词 instrument
释义
instrumentin‧stru‧ment /ˈɪnstrəmənt/ ●●● W2 noun [countable] Entry menu
MENU FOR instrumentinstrument1 tool2 music3 for measuring4 method5 for hurting6 instrument of fate/God
Word Origin
WORD ORIGINinstrument
Origin:
1200-1300 Latin instrumentum, from instruere; ➔ INSTRUCT
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Even small children were used as instruments in the regime, encouraged to spy on and report their parents.
  • I sat in the dentist's chair and looked at the row of instruments beside me.
  • Spending was once considered the most powerful instrument of government policy.
  • The instrument measures breathing and blood pressure.
  • The instrument produces a sound similar to a violin.
  • The army is an instrument of the government.
  • The Committee on Ethics in Public Life was regarded by many as being a mere instrument of the government.
  • The company specializes in the manufacture of high quality writing instruments.
  • The microscope is perhaps the most widely used scientific instrument.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto use the toilet
a thing that you hold in your hand and use to repair, cut, or make something: · He couldn't finish repairing the engine because he didn't have the right tools.tool for: · a tool for cutting metalgardening/kitchen/mining tools: · All my gardening tools had been stolen from the shed.tool box (=a strong box that tools are kept in): · He took a spanner from his tool box and tightened up the bolts on the gate.tool kit (=a set of tools that are kept together): · A good tool kit should contain pliers, screwdrivers, and wire-cutters.
a small tool or device used especially by doctors and scientists, for doing careful or delicate work: · I sat in the dentist's chair and looked at the row of instruments beside me.· The microscope is perhaps the most widely used scientific instrument.· The company specializes in the manufacture of high quality writing instruments.
a small tool that has been cleverly designed to help you do something more easily: · He showed her several electronic gadgets, such as a watch that you can use as a phone.· It's a clever little gadget which you can use to cut vegetables into attractive shapes.· A sales assistant was demonstrating several kitchen gadgets to a crowd of shoppers.
a piece of equipment that has been cleverly designed to do a particular job, for example one that makes measurements, records sounds, or controls the operation of a machine: · An EEG is a device that records electrical activity in the brain.device for doing something: · a thermostatic device for controlling temperature· The farmers there still use the "Archimedes Screw", an ancient device for raising water from a lake or well.
formal a tool or simple machine used for a particular job, especially when working in the garden or on a farm: · The native women grind the wheat with heavy stone implements.· It is best to cut weeds off at the roots with an implement such as a hoe.farming/cooking/writing etc implements: · Some children find it difficult to hold their writing implements.
a piece of equipment, especially one used in the kitchen to prepare food: · Peter found the potato peeler in a drawer full of utensils.· We packed a few essential cooking utensils such as pots and a can opener for our camping trip.· You will find a wide range of kitchen utensils in our cookshop on the second floor.
someone who is used by someone else
someone who is used by a more powerful person or group as part of their plans for getting power, especially when the person being used does not realize this: · The soldiers were nothing more than pawns, regarded as dispensable by their officers.use somebody as a pawn: · The ambassador was being used as a pawn in the struggle between the two superpowers.
a ruler or government that seems to be independent but is really controlled by the government of another more powerful country: a puppet ruler/regime/government: · In 1290, Edward I set up a puppet government in the Scottish lowlands.puppet of: · During the 70s many Eastern European leaders were merely puppets of the Kremlin.
someone who is controlled and used unfairly by another person or group, especially to do something bad: tool of: · The king was merely a tool of the military regime.
someone who always does what another person or group wants: · Community leaders in the area are widely regarded as police stooges.stooge of: · He accused her of being a stooge of the Tory Party.
someone who is used and controlled by someone or something more powerful: instrument of: · Even small children were used as instruments of the regime, encouraged to spy on and report their parents.· The Committee on Ethics in Public Life was regarded by many as being a mere instrument of the government.
WORD SETS
acre, nounacreage, nounavoirdupois, nounbaker's dozen, nounbalance, nounbarometer, nounbaseline, nounbasin, nounbaud rate, nounbearing, nounbecquerel, nounblack box, nounboiling point, nounbottle, nounbox, nouncalculator, nouncalibrate, verbcalibration, nouncc, centi-, prefixcentimetre, nouncircumference, nouncl, clock, verbcm, cu, cubic, adjectivecubit, nouncup, nouncupful, nouncwt, daylight saving time, noundeci-, prefixdecibel, noundecimalization, noundeflection, noundegree, noundensity, noundepth, noundimension, noundipstick, noundisplacement, noundoz., noundozen, numberelevation, nounfactor, nounfathom, nounfl oz, fluid ounce, nounfoot, nounft, g, gage, noungal, gallon, noungauge, noungauge, verbGB, Geiger counter, noungigabyte, noungill, noungirth, noungm, graduated, adjectivegraduation, noungrain, noungram, noungramme, noungrid, noungross, adjectivehandful, nounhectare, nounhertz, nounhigh, adjectivehundredweight, nounimpedance, nounimperial, adjectiveinch, nounindicator, nouninstrument, nounjoule, nounkarat, nounkg, kilo, nounkilo-, prefixkilogram, nounkilometre, nounkm, knot, nounl, latitude, nounlb, league, nounlength, nounlight year, nounliter, nounlitre, nounlow water mark, nounmax, nounmaximum, adjectivemean, adjectivemeasure, verbmeasure, nounmedian, nounmedium, adjectivemegaton, nounmelting point, nounmental age, nounmeter, nounmeter, verb-meter, suffixmetre, noun-metre, suffixmetric, adjectivemetrication, nounmetric ton, nounmg, MHz, microsecond, nounmile, nounmillennium, nounmilli-, prefixmillibar, nounmilligram, nounmillilitre, nounmillimetre, nounminus, adjectiveminute, nounml, mpg, mph, nano-, prefixnanosecond, nounnautical mile, nounounce, nounoverweight, adjectiveoz, pace, verbpart, nounpedometer, nounpint, nounplus, adjectivepoint, nounpound, nounpunnet, nounqt, quantify, verbquart, nounradioactive dating, nounradius, nounrain gauge, nounread, verbreading, nounrecord, verbreset, verbrev, nounrotation, nounrpm, rule, nounruler, nounscale, nounsea level, nounsea mile, nounseismograph, nounsensor, nounset square, nounsextant, nounsnowfall, nounsoundings, nounsq., subsonic, adjectivesundial, nountherm, nountimberline, nountog, nounton, nountonnage, nountonne, nountroy weight, noununit, nounvoltmeter, nounvolume, nounwatch, nounwatt, nounwattage, nounweighbridge, nounweight, nounwidth, nounwt., yard, nounyardage, nounyardstick, nounyd, zero, number
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meaning 2verbs
· Can you play a musical instrument?
(also learn an instrument)· All students at the school have the opportunity to learn an instrument.
(=make it play at the right pitch)· The musicians were tuning their instruments before the concert began.
· You could hire an instrument from a music shop.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + instrument
· Violas blend very well with most of the wind instruments.
· The tuba is the deepest of the brass instruments.
· He spent many hours playing string instruments of all kinds.
· Keyboard instruments are relatively easy to learn.
(=one that you hit)· Children can learn to play percussion instruments through games and songs.
· An electronic instrument requires no tuning and very little maintenance.
(=one that can be played on its own)· The organ has increasingly become recognized as a solo instrument in its own right.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
 microscopes and other optical instruments
 a range of percussion instruments
 scalpels and other surgical instruments
 woodwind instruments such as the flute or saxophone
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· I sometimes think a blunt instrument would do some good for her.· While the men exchanged blows the girl struck Farini from behind with a blunt instrument.· After a while they kidnap and murder a young boy for kicks, bashing him over the head with a blunt instrument.· The blunt instrument obstinately refused to reveal itself and he doubted if there were any more revelations to be got out of anybody.· This is a very blunt instrument.· The cause of death had been the terrible bludgeoning he had received from a blunt instrument.· She looked around for a blunt instrument.· Wyllie will arrive early in the New Year. Blunt instrument hits Oslo.
· In recent years there has been an enormous increase in the range and complexity of capital market instruments.· Legally, such capital instruments are debt and should therefore be disclosed within liabilities.· The accounting policies in respect of capital instruments should be stated.· It does not address accounting for investments in capital instruments issued by other entities. 18.· If a capital instrument contains an obligation to transfer economic benefits the entire instrument should be accounted for as a liability.· Scope Classification of capital instruments Debt Convertible debt 22.· The result of this approach is that most capital instruments are reported as liabilities.· Debt: Capital instruments which are classified as liabilities. 7.
· The application manages financial instruments, including treasury bills, short-, medium- and long-term loans and interest rate hedges.· Why not all financial instruments measured at fair value?· The ability to follow every financial instrument on every market for effective asset management.· Merton helped to refine the work and made it more broadly applicable to other financial instruments.· The discount houses attempt to make profits by creating a market in short-term financial instruments.· Other derivatives are complex, high-risk financial instruments.· Not surprisingly, the gray-haired veteran shuns sophisticated financial instruments to hedge against interest-rate increases.
· The Altimeter will be the main pitch-support instrument in level flight.· The Airspeed Indicator being the main pitch-support instrument in climb or descent.· And some people misguidedly use disagreement with others as the main instrument of asserting their status.· There is a danger that we neglect a profound study of a main instrument, and end up as mediocrities.· The main instruments for tracing buried features using magnetic methods are magnetometers.· Running across the command module in front of the couches was the main instrument and control panel.
· When biscuit-tin bashing gets boring, lend your toddler a real musical instrument for a treat.· If you blow through this end, the straw vibrates like the reed in some musical instruments. 3.· As music and musical instruments developed and became more flexible, so did the dance.· I made two announcements: one, that I am getting a musical instrument.· This was one of the first musical instruments ever made.· He would play Joe like a musical instrument.· She can transform oil drums, exhaust pipes and car wheels into fine musical instruments.
· He collaborated with many mathematicians and inventors in putting new forms of instrument into production.· The new instruments should help push back that frontier of time and distance even further.· Exchange of information on techniques is as important as knowledge of new instruments or accessories.· This new instrument found the first direct evidence of solid matter surrounding stars other than our Sun.· Those who exploited the potential power of the new instrument were recommended a Walter piano, which had a check.· The plan includes major new scientific instruments and industrial plants.· Gibson have also announced some new instruments, including the first Gibson basses ever modelled on the ES-175 jazz guitar body.· The telescope was designed to allow new instruments to be installed as old ones become obsolete.
· The first questions Wien asked were related to the resolving power of optical instruments.· Even optical instruments, such as perspective machines, the cameraobscura and the camera lucida, were used sparingly.· This level of magnification shows the eye as an optical instrument.· There is, however, one classical restriction which we must take into account, namely the resolving power of optical instruments.
· The repo is generally in gilts, although other instruments have also been acceptable.· There were of course occasions when Franz's great sword was laid aside, other instruments being required for the administration of justice.· In addition, there is the growing use of other instruments, either singly or in groups.· Sometimes in a country parish there is no organ or other instrument, let alone some one to play it.· In less conservative congregations, and where they are available, other instruments have their place on occasions.· Next are tables for 48 other instruments for which only fragmentary evidence of original stringing survives.· We had lights but no instruments, other aircraft had instruments but no lights, so we flew close together.
· Glasgow: Clocks and scientific instruments, Wednesday 11am.· Triana has been derided by Republican critics, and its political pedigree is unusual for a scientific instrument.· Calibration and servicing of scientific instruments.· The plan includes major new scientific instruments and industrial plants.· There are many small engineering firms, some specialising in scientific instruments.· Industrial machinery, computer and other electronic equipment, chemicals, scientific instruments and transportation equipment lead the export list.· By next Tuesday, Hubble should have two new scientific instruments and replacements for its failing hardware.
· All that remained was for the Lord Chancellor by statutory instrument to appoint a day for s9 to come into effect.· In order to override that, they intend to introduce a statutory instrument.· Mr. Speaker With permission, I will put together the Questions on the statutory instruments.· A code of practice is not legally enforceable, like a statutory instrument, for example.· Greater control will be achieved by providing that the power is to be exercised by way of statutory instrument.· Appendix 1 lists all the statutory instruments made under the Act for easy reference.· The Statutory Instruments Act 1946 only applies, not unsurprisingly, to statutory instruments.· Simply implementing the Directive by means of a statutory instrument would result in yet another regime relating solely to consumer contracts.
· Writing music, the bottom line is that it's a stringed instrument but rhythmically you are playing a keyboard.· If you have access to stringed instruments, bring them to class and let the students try playing them.· When Cristofori built his pianos of the 1720s, the harpsichord and the clavichord were the usual stringed keyboard instruments.· Many of the stringed instruments imitate the sounds of horses; wind instruments imitate the sounds of birds and other wild animals.· The populations of Kucha were particularly noted for their musical talent where they excelled on flutes and stringed instruments.· The cello has a rich, penetrating sound throughout its range and is the most versatile of the stringed instruments.· Flittern Rattletrap hammered the strings of a low-throated stringed instrument, his feet stamping time.· On the shelves behind were stringed instruments made from wood, leather, and large, hollowed-out seed-pods.
· From its size, the knife must have had a very specific use and may even have been a surgical instrument.· We found medical equipment, surgical instruments, weap-ons, clothing, documents.· Displays of early surgical instruments give a chilling glimpse of the pain the sick must have endured before anaesthetic was invented.· Then she was hired to work at the hospital, sterilizing surgical instruments and assisting elderly patients.· The position of the surgical instrument in the real skull is determined by the sensors in the mechanical arm.· The surgeon uses the tiny camera to guide the surgical instruments in freeing the kidney.
NOUN
· In 1755 he went to London to train as a mathematical instrument maker.· The choice of materials by instrument makers, however, depends primarily on the local ecosystem.· The instrument maker knows how to choose his materials, and can judge their qualities and defects.· What the instrument maker fashions with his hands, is a direct response to nature, which will he expressed in sound.· Only a particular instrument maker invited to repair the instrument is allowed to work on it.· Arthur had become a professional musical instrument maker.· These trees grow slowly and take decades to reach the maturity, which gives their wood the qualities that instrument makers need.
· Something smashed into his instrument panel and thin oil streaked his goggles.· I settled on one of the gauges on the instrument panel in front of me.· The instrument panel looked complicated, but all the switches were neatly marked.· I let go of the intercom switch and looked over the black ledge of the instrument panel.· He hopes, for instance, that instrument panels have not changed much in the last fifty years.· The lights from the instrument panel fell across her skirt.· Church leaders should gather data much as airline pilots read their instrument panel during flight.· Racks of black instrument panels lined with banks of silver toggle switches surround the pilot.
· His first distinctive works were for percussion instruments or pianos prepared with nuts and bolts inserted between the strings.· He bashed about on percussion instruments.
· Governments should aim to make their policy instruments as predictable as possible soas to minimize confusion and hence undesirable fluctuations in output.· However the methodologies in assessing soil erosion hazard, as well as policy instruments, may well not be applicable outside the United States.· Rather, they accept existing policy instruments as given and make additions or subtractions from them.· The research will include an analysis of policy instruments and an examination of available information on the take-up of grant schemes.· The government has a number of possible policy instruments which it can use for this purpose.· The policy instruments which have been used to try to achieve this equitable goal have evolved slowly.· What it does rely on is the government's ability to change its policy instruments more quickly than firms can change prices.
· A precision instrument whose chief virtues were useless to anyone in this age.· Basingstoke is noted for precision instruments.· Wildland fire is not a precision instrument.
· The same held true for mouthpieces for wind instruments and replacement roots for teeth, Sakai explained.· Many of the stringed instruments imitate the sounds of horses; wind instruments imitate the sounds of birds and other wild animals.· Mac had said something about his fondness for wind instruments without actually saying what he played.· Both were playing a traditional wind instrument known as the didgeridoo.· Its high register gives brilliance and point when doubling at the octave phrases allotted to other wind instruments or to the violins.· The pre-Columbian Amerindian civilizations in particular produced a variety of vessel flutes, compound pipes and wind instruments.· Native wind instruments fashioned from tiny straws are sold at a fraction of the cost of matchbox-size ghetto-blasters.· They provided six of the centre's elephants, aged seven to 18, with a variety of percussion and wind instruments.
VERB
· Certain individuals and peoples become instruments of his justice and anger.· Polls have become not only an instrument for taking the momentary public pulse but a servant of political spin.· Light became an instrument with which to measure the world.· Academic knowledge became valuable as an instrument rather than an end in itself.· It has once again become a leading instrument of government, with responsibility for coordination, planning and implementation and conduct of policy.· Plunder thus became an instrument of state.· They have thus become the principal instruments for studying fluctuating flows, in particular the phenomena of transition and turbulence.
· This pleased me very much because I was longing to hear her play the instrument.· The people roused the protector spirit of the sun, Nga Bal, by singing, dancing, and playing their instruments.· Wind players are listed separately from string players, while those who play continuo instruments and accompany singers form yet another unit.· We asked 100 kids in grades four through seven who played a musical instrument.· I think it is much more valuable to hear and play instruments than to read about them.· On average, the musicians had started learning to play an instrument at age eight.· But there was something in the air, a sad note the weather played upon the instrument of the bone-stretched skin.
· In the bedroom Sir Richard Croft uses his instruments to bleed her and then muffles his forceps in cloth: does nothing.· Microprocessors are used to program the instruments and make all necessary calculations. 9.· This apparent two-minute discrepancy should not compromise his accuracy, since comparative measurements should not be made using different instruments.· It is wise and economical to use instruments that have already been designed.· I don't believe in just using monetary instruments.· Design and perform some activity that uses the instrument.· The music, using Gamelan instruments, is a pleasure, though it can occasionally obscure the text.· A barrier layer cell has too slow a response time to be used in instruments that have a chopper.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • After a while they kidnap and murder a young boy for kicks, bashing him over the head with a blunt instrument.
  • All the injuries were consistent with an enraged and merciless attack with a blunt instrument.
  • I sometimes think a blunt instrument would do some good for her.
  • She looked around for a blunt instrument.
  • The blunt instrument obstinately refused to reveal itself and he doubted if there were any more revelations to be got out of anybody.
  • The cause of death had been the terrible bludgeoning he had received from a blunt instrument.
  • This is a very blunt instrument.
  • While the men exchanged blows the girl struck Farini from behind with a blunt instrument.
  • Dials twitch in the control panel at the sound of it.
  • He hopes, for instance, that instrument panels have not changed much in the last fifty years.
  • I settled on one of the gauges on the instrument panel in front of me.
  • On Windows 95, go to control panel, then keyboard, then languages, then properties, and there choose Dvorak.
  • Reaching to the control panel, he flipped the auto-pilot to the off position.
  • That big control panel with all the handles and cranks.
  • The instrument panel looked complicated, but all the switches were neatly marked.
  • A precision instrument whose chief virtues were useless to anyone in this age.
  • Basingstoke is noted for precision instruments.
  • Wildland fire is not a precision instrument.
1instrument (1)tool a small tool used in work such as science or medicine:  surgical instruments2music an object used for producing music, such as a piano or violin SYN  musical instrument → instrumental, instrumentalist:  electronic instrumentsbrass/wind/percussion/stringed etc instrument3for measuring a piece of equipment for measuring and showing distance, speed, temperature etc:  a failure of the flight instruments sensitive earthquake-detecting instruments4method [usually singular] something or someone that is used to get a particular resultinstrument of Interest rates are an important instrument of economic policy.instrument for (doing) something Good management should be an instrument for innovation.5for hurting something that is used to hit or hurt someone:  Death was due to a blow on the head with a blunt instrument.instrument of torture (=an object used to make people suffer pain until they give information)6instrument of fate/God literary someone or something that is used by a power beyond our controlCOLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2verbsplay an instrument· Can you play a musical instrument?learn to play an instrument (also learn an instrument)· All students at the school have the opportunity to learn an instrument.tune an instrument (=make it play at the right pitch)· The musicians were tuning their instruments before the concert began.hire an instrument· You could hire an instrument from a music shop.ADJECTIVES/NOUN + instrumenta wind/woodwind instrument· Violas blend very well with most of the wind instruments.a brass instrument· The tuba is the deepest of the brass instruments.a string/stringed instrument· He spent many hours playing string instruments of all kinds.a keyboard instrument· Keyboard instruments are relatively easy to learn.a percussion instrument (=one that you hit)· Children can learn to play percussion instruments through games and songs.an electronic instrument· An electronic instrument requires no tuning and very little maintenance.a solo instrument (=one that can be played on its own)· The organ has increasingly become recognized as a solo instrument in its own right.
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