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instrument

/in-struh-muhnt/US // ˈɪn strə mənt //

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a mechanical tool or implement, especially one used for delicate or precision work: surgical instruments.
    • : a contrivance or apparatus for producing musical sounds: a stringed instrument.
    • : a means by which something is effected or done; agency: an instrument of government.
    • : a device for measuring the present value of a quantity under observation.
    • : a mechanical or electronic measuring device, especially one used in navigation: landing a plane by instruments.
    • : a formal legal document, as a draft or bond: negotiable instruments.
    • : a person used by another merely as a means to some private end; tool or dupe.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to equip with instruments, as a machine or manufacturing process: to instrument a space vehicle.
    • : to arrange a composition for musical instruments; orchestrate.

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Examples

  • 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.

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

  • 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.