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单词 instrumental
释义 instrumental
 —instrumentally,  adv.  
 /in'streuh men"tl/,  adj.  
  1. serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
  2. performed on or written for a musical instrument or instruments: instrumental music.
  3. of or pertaining to an instrument or tool.
  4.  Gram.  
   a. (in certain inflected languages, as Old English and Russian) noting or pertaining to a case having as its distinctive function the indication of means or agency, as Old English beseah blithe andweitan "looked with a happy countenance."
   b. noting the affix or other element characteristic of this case, or a word containing such an element.
   c. similar to such a case form in function or meaning, as the Latin instrumental ablative, gladio, "by means of a sword."
   d. (in case grammar) pertaining to the semantic role of a noun phrase that indicates the inanimate, nonvolitional, immediate cause of the action expressed by a verb, as the rock in The rock broke the window or in I broke the window with the rock.
  n.  
  5.  Gram.  
   a. the instrumental case.
   b. a word in the instrumental case.
   c. a construction of similar meaning.
  6. a musical composition played by an instrument or a group of instruments. Cf. vocal (def. 8).
 [1350-1400; ME < ML instrumentalis. See INSTRUMENT, -AL1]
 Syn. 1. implemental, effectual, effective.
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