Instruments

Word INSTRUMENTS
Character 11
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈɪnstɹəmənts/

Definitions and meanings of "Instruments"

What do we mean by instruments?

A device used to produce music.

A means or agency for achieving an effect.

A measuring or displaying device.

A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.

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.

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The word "instruments" in example sentences

Where the national government is empowered by national legislation to promulgate subordinate legislation or statutory instruments which affect the powers, functions or interests of provinces, the Senate should have a say over the content of such instruments, particularly where the provinces are required to implement such legislation or instruments*. ❋ Unknown (1995)

Thus, if we consider only those typical cases in which the complete triumph of intelligence and of instinct is seen, we find this essential difference between them: _instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even of constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments_. ❋ Henri Bergson (1900)

I have translated this word 'dies;' but it seems to mean all the coining instruments, 'stampe' or 'conii' being the dies proper. ❋ Benvenuto Cellini (1535)

The songs played in the two videos are different from each other (although the "layout" of the instruments is the same), so be sure to watch both. ❋ JDsg (2006)

I have translated this word dies; but it seems to mean all the coining instruments, stampe or conii being the dies proper. ❋ Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 (1910)

How you read into "instruments" is up to you, and so is the rest. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Detecting that which can only be perceived by the mind and not with instruments is one of these limitations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The downgrades applied to a variety of debt issues linked to the federal government, including pre-refunded bonds backed by escrowed Treasury notes, public finance housing authority issuers, and public finance debt issues with mortgage insurance from the Federal Housing Administration and mortgage revenue invested in short-term instruments guaranteed by the U.S. government. ❋ Michael Aneiro (2011)

For a singer-songwriter, breaking up with instruments is hard to do. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One of the problems with all these instruments is that the biggest holders of bank paper are in turn financial entities, mostly insurance companies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some types of rock music feed certain instruments through clippers (old fashioned, easy to do) or other distorters to change the instrument voice dramatically. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They are not to be confused with so-called currency swaps, which are longer-term instruments that entail greater risk. ❋ Sarah N. Lynch (2011)

Until then, the country will try to scrape together the required funds to stay afloat, probably with the help of short-term instruments. ❋ Mark Brown (2011)

These allow thin instruments to be pushed into the abdominal cavity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A spokesman for Samsung said executives decided to issue a bond partly in expectation of paying a lower interest rate than the company would face with the short-term instruments on which it has relied heavily in recent years. ❋ Evan Ramstad (2012)

"Spinning off some small internal hedge funds that do short-term trading in liquid instruments is an inconsequential risk reduction" compared with cuts in banks 'illiquid assets, the analyst wrote this summer. ❋ Aaron Lucchetti (2010)

They are different than so-called currency swaps, which are longer-term instruments that entail greater risk. ❋ Bradley Davis (2011)

There are other instruments from the early 1980s called ARCNs (adjustable rate convertible notes) that more closely resembled what Mankiw is talking as they were payable in a fixed number of shares of stock regardless of the face amount of the bonds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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