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What is the difference between ablative and instrumental?

ablative | instrumental |

In grammar terms the difference between ablative and instrumental

is that ablative is the ablative case while instrumental is applied to a case expressing means or agency, generally indicated in English by by or with with the objective.

ablative

English

(wikipedia ablative)

Adjective

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  • (grammar) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement.
  • (obsolete) Pertaining to taking away or removing.
  • * , 1622The Works of Joseph Hall: Sermons (http://books.google.com/books?id=6KA9AAAAYAAJ), page 123
    • Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth.
  • (engineering, nautical) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying, as in ablative paints used for antifouling. .
  • (medical) Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
  • (geology) Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.

    • Derived terms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) The ablative case.
  • An ablative material.

    • Derived terms

    * ablative absolute

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    instrumental

    English

    (wikipedia instrumental)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; essential or central.
    • He was instrumental in conducting the business.
  • * (rfdate), (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet), I,ii
    • The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth —
  • (music) Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, especially a musical instrument.
    • instrumental music
  • * (rfdate) (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
    • He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship.
  • * (rfdate) (John Dryden)
  • * Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental sounds.
  • (grammar) Applied to a case expressing means or agency, generally indicated in English by by'' or ''with with the objective.
    • the instrumental case

    Coordinate terms

    * (serving as a means) final * (music) vocal, a capella

    Antonyms

    * noninstrumental

    Derived terms

    * instrumental error * instrumentation * instrumentality * instrumentive

    Noun

  • (uncountable, grammar) The instrumental case.
  • (countable, music) A composition without lyrics.
  • * 1977 , Stereo Review (volume 38, page 70)
    • I recommend this album in the face of the fact that five of the eleven songs are the purest filler, dull instrumentals with a harmonica rifling over an indifferent rhythm section. The rest is magnificent

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