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