Instrument

(noun.) the means whereby some act is accomplished; 'my greed was the instrument of my destruction'; 'science has given us new tools to fight disease'.

(noun.) a device that requires skill for proper use.

(noun.) a person used by another to gain an end.

(verb.) address a legal document to.

(verb.) write an instrumental score for.

(verb.) equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling.

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• The instrument may be made before the laws which govern its operation are discovered. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• But the key was an instrument of such gigantic proportions, that before they started Riah proposed to carry it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• This interior cylinder readily revolves on an axis, _g_, _g_, shown in the section of the instrument as seen edgewise. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Coals may be considered both as a material of manufacture, and as an instrument of trade. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The outer case of the instrument, which is a flat cylinder made of sheet iron, is indicated by the letters _c_, _c_. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The improved instrument produces untempered tones without requiring extraordinary variations from the usual arrangement of the keys. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Mr. Lake developed an instrument suited to this purpose and one which gave a simultaneous view of the entire horizon. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• We left her, on a low chair, at one side of the instrument, so absorbed over her reading that she did not seem to notice when we moved. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• By this means the instrument suits all eyes, without requiring adjustment, and the field of view is increased. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The clocks at the corresponding stations were set exactly together, so that the same letter was exposed to view at each instrument at the same instant. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The clepsydra became in Greece a useful instrument to enforce the law in restricting loquacious orators and lawyers to reasonable limits in their addresses. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The receiving instrument at the other end of the line was constructed upon much the same general lines as the transmitter, consisting of a metallic drum and reels for the paper tape. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Wells' little essay: Skepticism of the Instrument. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The instrument with which the injury had been inflicted lay upon the carpet beside him. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• If Machiavelli is a symbol of the political theorist making reason an instrument of purpose, we may take Sorel as a self-conscious representative of the impulses which generate purpose. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Of the numerous other telegraph instruments that have been invented since 1837, that of Mr. Morse is in most general use, especially on the Continent and in America. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• I can only suppose now, that it was a part of his policy, as a very clever man, habitually to deceive his own instruments. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The instruments show a rapidly decreasing air pressure on all parts of Barsoom--the engine has stopped. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The spoons, forks, and other instruments, were all in the same proportion. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Thirdly, and lastly, the machines and instruments of trade, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He took a neat little leather case out of a drawer, and opening it he exhibited a number of shining instruments. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Guitar and mandolin are agreeable instruments for amateurs, but are never used in orchestral music. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Musical instruments maybe divided into three groups according to the different ways in which their tones are produced:-- _First. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Voltmeters (Fig. 236), or instruments for measuring voltage, are like ammeters except that a wire of very high resistance is in circuit with the movable coil. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• He has occasion for no machines or instruments of trade, unless his shop or warehouse be considered as such. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• To make the manufacture of instruments an ideal is to lose much of their ideal value. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• At other times, free balloons are liberated, carrying sets of automatic registering instruments. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The Greeks derived their musical instruments from the Egyptians, and the Romans borrowed theirs from the Greeks, but neither the Greeks nor the Romans invented any. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• If we are discouraged it is because we tend to identify statecraft with that official government which is merely one of its instruments. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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