noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
instrument panel
musical instrument
optical instruments
▪ microscopes and other optical instruments
percussion instruments
▪ a range of percussion instruments
stringed instrument
surgical equipment/instruments/treatment
▪ scalpels and other surgical instruments
wind instrument
woodwind instruments
▪ woodwind instruments such as the flute or saxophone
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
blunt
▪ I sometimes think a blunt instrument would do some good for her.
▪ While the men exchanged blows the girl struck Farini from behind with a blunt instrument.
▪ After a while they kidnap and murder a young boy for kicks, bashing him over the head with a blunt instrument.
▪ The blunt instrument obstinately refused to reveal itself and he doubted if there were any more revelations to be got out of anybody.
▪ This is a very blunt instrument.
▪ The cause of death had been the terrible bludgeoning he had received from a blunt instrument.
▪ She looked around for a blunt instrument.
▪ Wyllie will arrive early in the New Year. Blunt instrument hits Oslo.
capital
▪ In recent years there has been an enormous increase in the range and complexity of capital market instruments.
▪ Legally, such capital instruments are debt and should therefore be disclosed within liabilities.
▪ The accounting policies in respect of capital instruments should be stated.
▪ It does not address accounting for investments in capital instruments issued by other entities. 18.
▪ If a capital instrument contains an obligation to transfer economic benefits the entire instrument should be accounted for as a liability.
▪ Scope Classification of capital instruments Debt Convertible debt 22.
▪ The result of this approach is that most capital instruments are reported as liabilities.
▪ Debt: Capital instruments which are classified as liabilities. 7.
financial
▪ The application manages financial instruments, including treasury bills, short-, medium- and long-term loans and interest rate hedges.
▪ Why not all financial instruments measured at fair value?
▪ The ability to follow every financial instrument on every market for effective asset management.
▪ Merton helped to refine the work and made it more broadly applicable to other financial instruments.
▪ The discount houses attempt to make profits by creating a market in short-term financial instruments.
▪ Other derivatives are complex, high-risk financial instruments.
▪ Not surprisingly, the gray-haired veteran shuns sophisticated financial instruments to hedge against interest-rate increases.
main
▪ The Altimeter will be the main pitch-support instrument in level flight.
▪ The Airspeed Indicator being the main pitch-support instrument in climb or descent.
▪ And some people misguidedly use disagreement with others as the main instrument of asserting their status.
▪ There is a danger that we neglect a profound study of a main instrument, and end up as mediocrities.
▪ The main instruments for tracing buried features using magnetic methods are magnetometers.
▪ Running across the command module in front of the couches was the main instrument and control panel.
musical
▪ When biscuit-tin bashing gets boring, lend your toddler a real musical instrument for a treat.
▪ If you blow through this end, the straw vibrates like the reed in some musical instruments. 3.
▪ As music and musical instruments developed and became more flexible, so did the dance.
▪ I made two announcements: one, that I am getting a musical instrument.
▪ This was one of the first musical instruments ever made.
▪ He would play Joe like a musical instrument.
▪ She can transform oil drums, exhaust pipes and car wheels into fine musical instruments.
new
▪ He collaborated with many mathematicians and inventors in putting new forms of instrument into production.
▪ The new instruments should help push back that frontier of time and distance even further.
▪ Exchange of information on techniques is as important as knowledge of new instruments or accessories.
▪ This new instrument found the first direct evidence of solid matter surrounding stars other than our Sun.
▪ Those who exploited the potential power of the new instrument were recommended a Walter piano, which had a check.
▪ The plan includes major new scientific instruments and industrial plants.
▪ Gibson have also announced some new instruments, including the first Gibson basses ever modelled on the ES-175 jazz guitar body.
▪ The telescope was designed to allow new instruments to be installed as old ones become obsolete.
optical
▪ The first questions Wien asked were related to the resolving power of optical instruments.
▪ Even optical instruments, such as perspective machines, the cameraobscura and the camera lucida, were used sparingly.
▪ This level of magnification shows the eye as an optical instrument.
▪ There is, however, one classical restriction which we must take into account, namely the resolving power of optical instruments.
other
▪ The repo is generally in gilts, although other instruments have also been acceptable.
▪ There were of course occasions when Franz's great sword was laid aside, other instruments being required for the administration of justice.
▪ In addition, there is the growing use of other instruments, either singly or in groups.
▪ Sometimes in a country parish there is no organ or other instrument, let alone some one to play it.
▪ In less conservative congregations, and where they are available, other instruments have their place on occasions.
▪ Next are tables for 48 other instruments for which only fragmentary evidence of original stringing survives.
▪ We had lights but no instruments, other aircraft had instruments but no lights, so we flew close together.
scientific
▪ Glasgow: Clocks and scientific instruments, Wednesday 11am.
▪ Triana has been derided by Republican critics, and its political pedigree is unusual for a scientific instrument.
▪ Calibration and servicing of scientific instruments.
▪ The plan includes major new scientific instruments and industrial plants.
▪ There are many small engineering firms, some specialising in scientific instruments.
▪ Industrial machinery, computer and other electronic equipment, chemicals, scientific instruments and transportation equipment lead the export list.
▪ By next Tuesday, Hubble should have two new scientific instruments and replacements for its failing hardware.
statutory
▪ All that remained was for the Lord Chancellor by statutory instrument to appoint a day for s9 to come into effect.
▪ In order to override that, they intend to introduce a statutory instrument.
▪ Mr. Speaker With permission, I will put together the Questions on the statutory instruments.
▪ A code of practice is not legally enforceable, like a statutory instrument, for example.
▪ Greater control will be achieved by providing that the power is to be exercised by way of statutory instrument.
▪ Appendix 1 lists all the statutory instruments made under the Act for easy reference.
▪ The Statutory Instruments Act 1946 only applies, not unsurprisingly, to statutory instruments.
▪ Simply implementing the Directive by means of a statutory instrument would result in yet another regime relating solely to consumer contracts.
stringed
▪ Writing music, the bottom line is that it's a stringed instrument but rhythmically you are playing a keyboard.
▪ If you have access to stringed instruments, bring them to class and let the students try playing them.
▪ When Cristofori built his pianos of the 1720s, the harpsichord and the clavichord were the usual stringed keyboard instruments.
▪ Many of the stringed instruments imitate the sounds of horses; wind instruments imitate the sounds of birds and other wild animals.
▪ The populations of Kucha were particularly noted for their musical talent where they excelled on flutes and stringed instruments.
▪ The cello has a rich, penetrating sound throughout its range and is the most versatile of the stringed instruments.
▪ Flittern Rattletrap hammered the strings of a low-throated stringed instrument, his feet stamping time.
▪ On the shelves behind were stringed instruments made from wood, leather, and large, hollowed-out seed-pods.
surgical
▪ From its size, the knife must have had a very specific use and may even have been a surgical instrument.
▪ We found medical equipment, surgical instruments, weap-ons, clothing, documents.
▪ Displays of early surgical instruments give a chilling glimpse of the pain the sick must have endured before anaesthetic was invented.
▪ Then she was hired to work at the hospital, sterilizing surgical instruments and assisting elderly patients.
▪ The position of the surgical instrument in the real skull is determined by the sensors in the mechanical arm.
▪ The surgeon uses the tiny camera to guide the surgical instruments in freeing the kidney.
■ NOUN
maker
▪ In 1755 he went to London to train as a mathematical instrument maker.
▪ The choice of materials by instrument makers, however, depends primarily on the local ecosystem.
▪ The instrument maker knows how to choose his materials, and can judge their qualities and defects.
▪ What the instrument maker fashions with his hands, is a direct response to nature, which will he expressed in sound.
▪ Only a particular instrument maker invited to repair the instrument is allowed to work on it.
▪ Arthur had become a professional musical instrument maker.
▪ These trees grow slowly and take decades to reach the maturity, which gives their wood the qualities that instrument makers need.
panel
▪ Something smashed into his instrument panel and thin oil streaked his goggles.
▪ I settled on one of the gauges on the instrument panel in front of me.
▪ The instrument panel looked complicated, but all the switches were neatly marked.
▪ I let go of the intercom switch and looked over the black ledge of the instrument panel.
▪ He hopes, for instance, that instrument panels have not changed much in the last fifty years.
▪ The lights from the instrument panel fell across her skirt.
▪ Church leaders should gather data much as airline pilots read their instrument panel during flight.
▪ Racks of black instrument panels lined with banks of silver toggle switches surround the pilot.
percussion
▪ His first distinctive works were for percussion instruments or pianos prepared with nuts and bolts inserted between the strings.
▪ He bashed about on percussion instruments.
policy
▪ Governments should aim to make their policy instruments as predictable as possible soas to minimize confusion and hence undesirable fluctuations in output.
▪ However the methodologies in assessing soil erosion hazard, as well as policy instruments, may well not be applicable outside the United States.
▪ Rather, they accept existing policy instruments as given and make additions or subtractions from them.
▪ The research will include an analysis of policy instruments and an examination of available information on the take-up of grant schemes.
▪ The government has a number of possible policy instruments which it can use for this purpose.
▪ The policy instruments which have been used to try to achieve this equitable goal have evolved slowly.
▪ What it does rely on is the government's ability to change its policy instruments more quickly than firms can change prices.
precision
▪ A precision instrument whose chief virtues were useless to anyone in this age.
▪ Basingstoke is noted for precision instruments.
▪ Wildland fire is not a precision instrument.
wind
▪ The same held true for mouthpieces for wind instruments and replacement roots for teeth, Sakai explained.
▪ Many of the stringed instruments imitate the sounds of horses; wind instruments imitate the sounds of birds and other wild animals.
▪ Mac had said something about his fondness for wind instruments without actually saying what he played.
▪ Both were playing a traditional wind instrument known as the didgeridoo.
▪ Its high register gives brilliance and point when doubling at the octave phrases allotted to other wind instruments or to the violins.
▪ The pre-Columbian Amerindian civilizations in particular produced a variety of vessel flutes, compound pipes and wind instruments.
▪ Native wind instruments fashioned from tiny straws are sold at a fraction of the cost of matchbox-size ghetto-blasters.
▪ They provided six of the centre's elephants, aged seven to 18, with a variety of percussion and wind instruments.
■ VERB
become
▪ Certain individuals and peoples become instruments of his justice and anger.
▪ Polls have become not only an instrument for taking the momentary public pulse but a servant of political spin.
▪ Light became an instrument with which to measure the world.
▪ Academic knowledge became valuable as an instrument rather than an end in itself.
▪ It has once again become a leading instrument of government, with responsibility for coordination, planning and implementation and conduct of policy.
▪ Plunder thus became an instrument of state.
▪ They have thus become the principal instruments for studying fluctuating flows, in particular the phenomena of transition and turbulence.
play
▪ This pleased me very much because I was longing to hear her play the instrument.
▪ The people roused the protector spirit of the sun, Nga Bal, by singing, dancing, and playing their instruments.
▪ Wind players are listed separately from string players, while those who play continuo instruments and accompany singers form yet another unit.
▪ We asked 100 kids in grades four through seven who played a musical instrument.
▪ I think it is much more valuable to hear and play instruments than to read about them.
▪ On average, the musicians had started learning to play an instrument at age eight.
▪ But there was something in the air, a sad note the weather played upon the instrument of the bone-stretched skin.
use
▪ In the bedroom Sir Richard Croft uses his instruments to bleed her and then muffles his forceps in cloth: does nothing.
▪ Microprocessors are used to program the instruments and make all necessary calculations. 9.
▪ This apparent two-minute discrepancy should not compromise his accuracy, since comparative measurements should not be made using different instruments.
▪ It is wise and economical to use instruments that have already been designed.
▪ I don't believe in just using monetary instruments.
▪ Design and perform some activity that uses the instrument.
▪ The music, using Gamelan instruments, is a pleasure, though it can occasionally obscure the text.
▪ A barrier layer cell has too slow a response time to be used in instruments that have a chopper.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blunt instrument
▪ After a while they kidnap and murder a young boy for kicks, bashing him over the head with a blunt instrument.
▪ All the injuries were consistent with an enraged and merciless attack with a blunt instrument.
▪ I sometimes think a blunt instrument would do some good for her.
▪ She looked around for a blunt instrument.
▪ The blunt instrument obstinately refused to reveal itself and he doubted if there were any more revelations to be got out of anybody.
▪ The cause of death had been the terrible bludgeoning he had received from a blunt instrument.
▪ This is a very blunt instrument.
▪ While the men exchanged blows the girl struck Farini from behind with a blunt instrument.
instrument/control panel
▪ Dials twitch in the control panel at the sound of it.
▪ He hopes, for instance, that instrument panels have not changed much in the last fifty years.
▪ I settled on one of the gauges on the instrument panel in front of me.
▪ On Windows 95, go to control panel, then keyboard, then languages, then properties, and there choose Dvorak.
▪ Reaching to the control panel, he flipped the auto-pilot to the off position.
▪ That big control panel with all the handles and cranks.
▪ The instrument panel looked complicated, but all the switches were neatly marked.
precision tool/instrument
▪ A precision instrument whose chief virtues were useless to anyone in this age.
▪ Basingstoke is noted for precision instruments.
▪ Wildland fire is not a precision instrument.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Even small children were used as instruments in the regime, encouraged to spy on and report their parents.
▪ I sat in the dentist's chair and looked at the row of instruments beside me.
▪ Spending was once considered the most powerful instrument of government policy.
▪ The instrument measures breathing and blood pressure.
▪ The instrument produces a sound similar to a violin.
▪ The army is an instrument of the government.
▪ The Committee on Ethics in Public Life was regarded by many as being a mere instrument of the government.
▪ The company specializes in the manufacture of high quality writing instruments.
▪ The microscope is perhaps the most widely used scientific instrument.