| 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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