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instrument

English

  1. 🔊 the means whereby some act is accomplished
    “my greed was the instrument of my destruction”
  2. 🔊 a device that requires skill for proper use
  3. 🔊 a person used by another to gain an end
  4. 🔊 any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds
  5. 🔊 the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process
  6. 🔊 (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right
  7. 🔊 address a legal document to
  8. 🔊 write an instrumental score for
  9. 🔊 equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling

Spanish

  1. 🔊 instrumento instrument, tool (a means or agency for achieving an effect)
  2. 🔊 instrumento instrument, tool (implement used for manipulation or measurement)

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