Word Meanings - APPLIANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The act of applying; application; subservience. Shak. 2. The thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances.
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- INSTRUMENTAL
Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental - UTENSIL
That which is used; an instrument; an implement; especially, an instrument or vessel used in a kitchen, or in domestic and farming business. Wagons fraught with utensils of war. Milton. (more info) utensilis that may be used, fit for use, fr. uti, - IMPLEMENT
That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war. Genius must have talent as its complement and implement. Coleridge. - INSTRUMENTALITY
The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense - INSTRUMENTATION
1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical - INSTRUMENTALLY
1. By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end. South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke. 2. With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied. Mason. - INSTRUMENT
A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc. Burrill. 4. One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium, - INSTRUMENTALISM
The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n. Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these - INSTRUMENTALIST
One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist. - INSTRUMENTALNESS
Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality. Hammond. - IMPLEMENTAL
Pertaining to, or characterized by, implements or their use; mechanical. - INSTRUMENTIST
A performer on a musical instrument; an instrumentalist. - INSTRUMENTARY
Instrumental. - APPLIANCE
1. The act of applying; application; subservience. Shak. 2. The thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances. - DIMPLEMENT
The state of being dimpled, or marked with gentle depressions. The ground's most gentle dimplement. Mrs. Browning.