Instrument vs. Machine

Instrumentnoun

A device used to produce music.

Instrumentnoun

A means or agency for achieving an effect.

Instrumentnoun

A measuring or displaying device.

Instrumentnoun

A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.

Instrumentnoun

(legal) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.

Instrumentnoun

(figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.

Instrumentverb

(transitive) To apply measuring devices.

Instrumentverb

(transitive) To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.

Instrumentverb

To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.

Instrumentnoun

That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; a device; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical instruments.

Instrumentnoun

A contrivance or implement, by which musical sounds are produced; as, a musical instrument.

Instrumentnoun

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.

Instrumentnoun

One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium, means, or agent; as, their army was primarily an instrument of oppression.

Instrumentverb

To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument; as, a sonata instrumented for orchestra.

Instrumentverb

To furnish or equip with instruments; to attach instruments to; as, the fighter planes were heavily instrumented; the patient was instrumented to monitor him remotely.

Instrumentnoun

a device that requires skill for proper use

Instrumentnoun

the means whereby some act is accomplished;

Instrumentnoun

a person used by another to gain an end

Instrumentnoun

(law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right

Instrumentnoun

the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process

Instrumentnoun

any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds

Instrumentverb

equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling

Instrumentverb

write an instrumental score for

Instrumentverb

address a legal document to

Machinenoun

A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.

Machinenoun

(dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.

Machinenoun

An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.

Machinenoun

(computing) A computer.

Machinenoun

(figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.

Machinenoun

Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.

Machinenoun

Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.

Machinenoun

The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.

Machinenoun

Penis.

Machineverb

to make by machinery.

Machineverb

to shape or finish by machinery.

Machinenoun

In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.

Machinenoun

Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.

Machinenoun

A person who acts mechanically or at the will of another.

Machinenoun

A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.

Machinenoun

A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends; the Tammany machine.

Machinenoun

Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.

Machineverb

To subject to the action of machinery; to make, cut, shape, or modify with a machine; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.

Machinenoun

any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks

Machinenoun

an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently;

Machinenoun

an efficient person;

Machinenoun

4-wheeled motor vehicle; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine;

Machinenoun

a group that controls the activities of a political party;

Machinenoun

a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point

Machineverb

turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery

Machineverb

make by machinery;

Machine

A machine is any physical system with ordered structural and functional properties. It may represent human-made or naturally occurring device molecular machine that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action.