instrument

• a device that requires skill for proper use
• the means whereby some act is accomplished
• a person used by another to gain an end
• (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right
• the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process
• any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds
• equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling
• write an instrumental score for
• address a legal document to
• That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected
• A contrivance or implement, by which musical sounds are produced
• A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act
• One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose
• To perform upon an instrument

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