instrument
Definition of instrument:
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part of speech: noun
A tool or utensil: a machine producing musical sounds: a writing containing a contract: one who or that which is made a means.
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part of speech: noun
A tool; a machine; a machine for the production of musical sounds; that by which something is prepared, produced, or done; a writing containing the terms of a contract; an agent, often in an ill sense.
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Common misspellings:
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- instrament (11.1%)
- istrument (1.3%)
- instuments (0.3%)
- instument (22.2%)
- intstument (0.6%)
- instement (0.3%)
- instriumeny (0.6%)
- insterments (0.3%)
- insterument (0.6%)
- instrucment (1.0%)
- instermint (0.6%)
- insturment (20.3%)
- insterment (11.7%)
- instrement (3.2%)
- intrument (13.7%)
- instrumnet (0.6%)
- isntrument (0.6%)
- insturnment (0.6%)
- instrumenst (0.3%)
- instruement (1.3%)
- instruemnt (0.6%)
- lnstrument (0.6%)
- instrment (1.3%)
- intrsument (0.6%)
- instrustment (0.6%)
- instroment (1.6%)
- insturement (0.6%)
- instermrnt (1.0%)
- instrumetn (1.0%)
- instrusment (0.6%)
Usage examples for instrument:
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This, then, is an instrument by which, if I am right, and I am convinced that there is no doubt of that, I can restore life to a person who has been dead for many hours.
"Lola" – Owen Davis -
The book is the chief instrument
"Introduction to the Study of History" – Charles V. Langlois Charles Seignobos -
The young man swung round to his instrument
"The Box with the Broken Seals" – E. Phillips Oppenheim
