Instrument vs Ringhead - What's the difference?
instrument | ringhead |
A device used to produce music.
A means or agency for achieving an effect.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 A measuring or displaying device.
A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
(legal) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
(figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To apply measuring devices.
To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.
To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.
An instrument used for stretching woollen cloth.
(Webster 1913)
English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs
As nouns the difference between instrument and ringhead
is that instrument is while ringhead is (label) a fan of the opera cycle (der ring des nibelungen) by (richard wagner).instrument
English
(wikipedia instrument)Noun
(en noun)- The violinist was a master of her instrument .
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- The instrument detected an increase in radioactivity.
- The dentist set down his tray of instruments'''.'' The scientist recorded the temperature with a thermometer but wished he had a more accurate ' instrument ."
- A bond indenture is the instrument that gives a bond its value.
- Negotiable instruments are the foundation of the debt markets.
- Or useful serving man and instrument , / To any sovereign state.
- The bold are but the instruments of the wise.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* blunt instrument * debt instrument * derivative instrument * financial instrument * instrumentation * instrumental * instrumentive * measuring instrument * musical instrument * negotiable instrument * writing instrumentVerb
(en verb)- a sonata instrumented for orchestra