Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- As an instrument, means, or tool; by way of an instrument; in the nature of an instrument; as means to an end.
- By means of an instrument, a tool, or a machine.
- With instruments of music.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end.
- adverb With instruments of music.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end
- adverb With instruments of music;
Etymologies
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Examples
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Normative hedonism is the claim that only pleasure has value and only pain has disvalue non-instrumentally, that is, independently of the value of anything they might cause or prevent.
Hedonism Moore, Andrew 2004
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A young women who has such a huge talent vocally, lyrically and instrumentally, combined with a resolute determination to make herself heard, can only be destined for good things.
Lydia Hughes: Singing Beyond the Stairwells: Kina Grannis Lydia Hughes 2011
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A young women who has such a huge talent vocally, lyrically and instrumentally, combined with a resolute determination to make herself heard, can only be destined for good things.
Lydia Hughes: Singing Beyond the Stairwells: Kina Grannis Lydia Hughes 2011
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A young women who has such a huge talent vocally, lyrically and instrumentally, combined with a resolute determination to make herself heard, can only be destined for good things.
Lydia Hughes: Singing Beyond the Stairwells: Kina Grannis Lydia Hughes 2011
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A young women who has such a huge talent vocally, lyrically and instrumentally, combined with a resolute determination to make herself heard, can only be destined for good things.
Lydia Hughes: Singing Beyond the Stairwells: Kina Grannis Lydia Hughes 2011
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The London Symphony played on part of the record, so some of the scenes in Bridget Jones used some of the parts where the London Symphony is playing instrumentally.
Mike Ragogna: Codes, Keys, Snarks and Everlasting Love: Chatting with Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard, Mac Gayden and Mike Batt Mike Ragogna 2011
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But as knives are instruments of good as well as mayhem, we have problems with not “put [ting] into the hands of a few hateful actors an ability to instrumentally ... disrupt others” (with the potential “disrupt” far beyond classroom trouble).
The Volokh Conspiracy » School Board Violating California Law? 2010
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In listening to those remarkable duets, the pianist somehow made himself into both halves of that equation at once: Like Mr. Bennett, he sings the words (he "sings" them instrumentally, if you 'll permit me that metaphor) and he tells the story; and like Evans, he does brilliant things with the chords and the musical elements.
Hard-Bop, Key Chops And Country Stomps Will friedwald 2010
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The London Symphony played on part of the record, so some of the scenes in Bridget Jones used some of the parts where the London Symphony is playing instrumentally.
Mike Ragogna: Codes, Keys, Snarks and Everlasting Love: Chatting with Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard, Mac Gayden and Mike Batt Mike Ragogna 2011
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A young women who has such a huge talent vocally, lyrically and instrumentally, combined with a resolute determination to make herself heard, can only be destined for good things.
Lydia Hughes: Singing Beyond the Stairwells: Kina Grannis Lydia Hughes 2011
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