instrument
English dictionary entry
Meanings
noun
- A device used to produce music.
- A means or agency for achieving an aspect.
- A measuring or displaying device.
- A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
- Ellipsis of flight instrument.
- A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
- A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
verb
- To apply measuring devices.
- To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.
- To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.
Pronunciation
/ˈɪnstɹəmənt/
/ˈɪnstɹʊmənt/
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Word forms
instrument
instruments
instrumenting
instrumented
Etymology
From Middle English instrument, from Old French instrument, from Latin īnstrūmentum (“an implement, tool”), From īnstruō (“build, construct; arrange”) + -mentum.
Related words
Derived words
absolute instrument
bioinstrument
block instrument
blunt instrument
brass instrument
B♭ instrument
cash instrument
chosen instrument
C instrument
debt instrument
derivative instrument
E♭ instrument
financial instrument
F instrument
flight instrument
hyperinstrument
instrument approach
instrumentary
instrumentation
instrument flight rules
instrument flying
instrument guidance system
instrumentist
instrumentive
instrument landing system
instrumentlike
instrumently
instrument maker
instrument meteorological conditions
instrument panel
instrument-shaped object
keyboard instrument
law of the instrument
legal instrument
Maisonneuve's instrument
measuring instrument
microinstrument
monetary instrument
musical instrument
negotiable instrument
on instruments
percussion instrument
reed instrument
reinstrument
Sabouraud-Noiré instrument
statutory instrument
stringed instrument
string instrument
time-delay measuring instrument
transit instrument
universal instrument
wind instrument
woodwind instrument
Translations
Albanian: vegël
Albanian: vegël muzikor
Arabic: الة موسيقية
Arabic: آلَة
Arabic: أَدَاة
Asturian: instrumentu
Bulgarian: музикален инструмент
Bulgarian: оръ́дие
Bulgarian: сечиво́
Bulgarian: инструме́нт
Catalan: instrument
Cherokee: ᎧᏃᎩᏍᏙᏗ
Czech: nástroj
Danish: instrument
Danish: musikinstrument
Danish: værktøj
Dutch: instrument
Dutch: muziekinstrument
Esperanto: instrumento
Estonian: pill
Estonian: muusikariist
Estonian: vahend
Finnish: soitin
Finnish: instrumentti
Finnish: väline
French: instrument
Galician: instrumento
German: Instrument
German: Musikinstrument
German: Werkzeug
Greek: όργανο
Greek: εργαλείο
Ancient Greek: ὄργανον
Ancient Greek: ἐργαλεῖον
Greenlandic: nipilersuut
Hebrew: כלי נגינה
Hebrew: כלי
Hindi: वाद्य
Hindi: बाजा
Hindi: साधन
Hindi: उपकरण
Hungarian: hangszer
Hungarian: műszer
Icelandic: hljóðfæri
Ido: muzik-instrumento
Ido: muzikilo
Indonesian: instrumen
Irish: uirlis
Irish: ionstraim
Irish: gléas
Irish: adhbh cheoil
Italian: strumento
Japanese: 楽器
Japanese: 鳴り物
Japanese: 鳴らし物
Japanese: 遊び物
Japanese: 器具
Japanese: 器械
Korean: 악기
Korean: 도구
Korean: 기계
Korean: 기구
Latin: organum
Latin: instrūmentum
Latvian: instruments
Latvian: rīks
Latvian: ierīce
Lithuanian: instrumentas
Lithuanian: įrankis
Lithuanian: prietaisas
Malayalam: സംഗീത ഉപകരണം
Māori: mea whakatangi
Māori: paraha
Norwegian Bokmål: instrument
Norwegian Nynorsk: instrument
Polish: instrument
Polish: narzędzie
Polish: przyrząd
Polish: przybór
Portuguese: instrumento
Romanian: instrument
Russian: инструме́нт
Russian: ору́дие
Russian: приспособле́ние
Russian: прибо́р
Scottish Gaelic: ionnsramaid
Scottish Gaelic: inneal-ciùil
Scottish Gaelic: inneal
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