instruments

Synonyms

technology equipment tool hardware instrument mechanism facility machinery apparatus KIT tackle instrumentation paraphernalia Athos equipage
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Phrases with the word

on instruments entertainer playing several instruments afraid of loud instruments instruments of incorporation constituent instruments analytical instruments

Examples

Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments. Frederick II of Prussia

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better. Horatio Nelson

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. George Washington

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. Alan Watts

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. Denis Diderot

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas. George Gershwin