Implement vs Instigate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between implement and instigate

is that implement is to bring about; to put into practice while instigate is to goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite.

is a tool or instrument for working with.

(wikipedia implement)

From .

(en noun)

A tool or instrument for working with.

They carried an assortment of gardening implements in the truck.

* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 234:

A man dreamt as follows: He saw two boys struggling—barrel-maker’s boys, to judge by the implements lying around.

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From Scottish English or (etyl)

(en verb)

to bring about; to put into practice

It’s a good thought, but it will be a difficult thing to implement .

to carry out; to do

* Objects: plan, programme, strategy, policy, agreement, order, specification, etc.

* implementable * implementation * implementer

* * English heteronyms

(Webster 1913)

(instigat)

To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite.

He hath only instigated his blackest agents to the very extent of their malignity. -Bp. Warburton.

Commonly used with reference to evil actions; as, to instigate one to a crime.

* (to goad or urge forward): animate, encourage, impel, incite, provoke, spur, stimulate, tempt, urge

* (to goad or urge forward): halt, prevent, stop

* instigation * instigator

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