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instrument

the means whereby some act is accomplished; "my greed was the instrument of my destruction"; "science has given us new tools to fight disease"

a device that requires skill for proper use

a person used by another to gain an end

address a legal document to

write an instrumental score for

equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling

Synonyms:

• Bourdon tube,
• Charlie McCarthy,
• Danish balance,
• Federal,
• Gramophone,
• Gyropilot,
• Mach meter,
• Roman balance,
• Teletype,
• Weightometer,
• X-ray machine,
• absolute altimeter,
• accelerometer,
• adapt,
• aerial reconnaissance camera,
• aerometer,
• aeroscope,
• agency,
• agent,
• air log,
• alloy balance,
• altigraph,
• altimeter,
• amanuensis,
• ammeter,
• analytical balance,
• ancilla,
• anemograph,
• anemometer,
• anemoscope,
• aneroid,
• antler,
• apparatus,
• apple-polisher,
• appliance,
• arrange,
• aspirator,
• ass-licker,
• assay balance,
• autograph,
• automatic pilot,
• autosyn,
• awl,
• backslapper,
• baggage agent,
• balance,
• balance of precision,
• barb,
• barbed wire,
• barblet,
• barbule,
• barbwire,
• barometer,
• barrel scale,
• beam,
• bedpan,
• blank,
• bodkin,
• bombing locator,
• bombsight,
• bootlick,
• bootlicker,
• bradawl,
• brown-nose,
• brownie,
• bullion balance,
• business agent,
• calorimeter,
• caltrop,
• card compass,
• carpet tack,
• cash register,
• catalyst,
• catheter,
• channel,
• cheval-de-frise,
• chirograph,
• chromatoscope,
• chronograph,
• chronometer,
• chuck,
• claim agent,
• clamp,
• clasp,
• clawback,
• clerk,
• clinch,
• clinical thermometer,
• clip,
• cockspur,
• commercial agent,
• commission agent,
• compact,
• compass,
• compose,
• consignee,
• contract,
• contraption,
• contrivance,
• control rod,
• counter scale,
• courtier,
• cramp,
• creature,
• cringer,
• customer agent,
• cylinder scale,
• device,
• diathermy machine,
• dibble,
• direction finder,
• docket,
• document,
• dog,
• dossier,
• drain,
• drum scale,
• dummy,
• dupe,
• electrocardiograph,
• electroencephalograph,
• electrograph,
• equipment,
• evaporimeter,
• facsimile telegraph,
• factor,
• fan scale,
• fawner,
• fed,
• federal agent,
• fid,
• file,
• fishhook,
• flatterer,
• flexure plate scale,
• flight recorder,
• flunky,
• footlicker,
• forceps,
• fork,
• form,
• freight agent,
• functionary,
• gadget,
• gaff,
• galvanometer,
• gauge,
• gauger,
• gear,
• general agent,
• gimcrack,
• gimlet,
• gimmick,
• gizmo,
• go-between,
• goad,
• goniometer,
• gosport,
• gosport tube,
• grab,
• grapnel,
• grapple,
• grappler,
• grappling iron,
• grip,
• groveler,
• gyrocompass,
• hand tool,
• handmaid,
• handmaiden,
• handshaker,
• harmonize,
• harpoon,
• hat pin,
• heat lamp,
• helot,
• hemostat,
• holdfast,
• holograph,
• hook,
• horn,
• hub dynamometer,
• hygrograph,
• hygrometer,
• hypo,
• hypodermic,
• hypodermic needle,
• hypsometer,
• icepick,
• implement,
• inclinometer,
• induction compass,
• instrumentality,
• instrumentate,
• instrumentation,
• insurance agent,
• interagent,
• intermediary,
• intermediate,
• intermedium,
• jackal,
• jaws,
• joy stick,
• kaleidoscope,
• kowtower,
• kymograph,
• lackey,
• lance,
• lancet,
• land agent,
• laser,
• law agent,
• led captain,
• legal document,
• legal instrument,
• legal paper,
• lever,
• lever scales,
• lickspit,
• lickspittle,
• literary agent,
• loan agent,
• long-arm balance,
• machine,
• machinery,
• magnetic compass,
• make an adaptation,
• manometer,
• marlinespike,
• mealymouth,
• mean,
• means,
• measure,
• measurer,
• mechanical device,
• mechanical heart,
• mechanism,
• mechanize,
• mediator,
• medium,
• melodize,
• meteorograph,
• meter,
• microfilm reader,
• micrometer,
• microscope,
• midwife,
• mill,
• minion,
• ministry,
• motorize,
• musicalize,
• nail,
• needle,
• news agent,
• nippers,
• octant,
• official,
• official document,
• optical altimeter,
• orchestrate,
• organ,
• oscillograph,
• otoscope,
• oxgoad,
• ozonometer,
• pact,
• pair of scales,
• paper,
• paper clip,
• papers,
• paraphernalia,
• parchment,
• pari-mutuel,
• pari-mutuel machine,
• parliamentary agent,
• passenger agent,
• pawn,
• peon,
• personal file,
• photometer,
• pike,
• pin,
• pincers,
• pitchfork,
• pitot-static tube,
• plate fulcrum scale,
• platform scale,
• plaything,
• pliers,
• pluviograph,
• pluviometer,
• pneumatograph,
• pneumatometer,
• potentiometer,
• power tool,
• precision balance,
• precision scale,
• precision tool,
• press agent,
• prime mover,
• prism,
• probe,
• prong,
• punch,
• puppet,
• purchasing agent,
• pus basin,
• put to music,
• pyrometer,
• quadrant,
• quill,
• radar,
• radio,
• radio compass,
• radio direction finder,
• radiogoniometer,
• range finder,
• rate-of-climb indicator,
• real estate agent,
• recording barometer,
• recording hygrometer,
• register,
• retool,
• robot pilot,
• roll,
• rowel,
• sales agent,
• scale,
• scales,
• scalpel,
• score,
• scrip,
• script,
• scroll,
• secretary,
• seismograph,
• seismoscope,
• serf,
• servant,
• set,
• set to music,
• sextant,
• sharpen,
• short-arm balance,
• skewer,
• slave,
• sound,
• sound recorder,
• spaniel,
• spearhead,
• special agent,
• spectrograph,
• spectrohelioscope,
• spectroscope,
• speculum,
• speed tool,
• spicule,
• spiculum,
• spike,
• spine,
• spiral balance,
• spirit level,
• spirometer,
• spit,
• splint,
• spur,
• staple,
• static tube,
• station agent,
• stereopticon,
• stethoscope,
• steward,
• sting,
• stooge,
• strike radar scanner,
• suck,
• sun compass,
• suture,
• swab,
• sycophant,
• syringe,
• tachometer,
• tack,
• tackle,
• tang,
• tape recorder,
• teletypewriter,
• telltale,
• theatrical agent,
• thermograph,
• thermometer,
• thermometrograph,
• thermostat,
• thingumabob,
• thingumajig,
• thingummy,
• throttle,
• thumbtack,
• ticker,
• ticket agent,
• timeserver,
• tine,
• toad,
• toady,
• tongs,
• tool,
• toy,
• transcribe,
• transit instrument,
• transpose,
• travel agent,
• trepan,
• trephine,
• truckler,
• tufthunter,
• turnstile,
• tweezers,
• utensil,
• variometer,
• vehicle,
• venturi tube,
• viewer,
• viscosimeter,
• vise,
• voting machine,
• walking delegate,
• way,
• weigh scales,
• weighbridge,
• weighing machine,
• weight voltameter,
• whatnot,
• wherewithal,
• wrench,
• writ,
• write,
• writing,
• yes-man,
• yoke