English-Portuguese translations for instrument

• instrumento
  É um instrumento, mas um instrumento importante. It is an instrument, but an important one.
  A PESC é mais do que um instrumento. The CFSP is more than an instrument.
  As quotas são um instrumento rígido. Quotas are a rigid instrument.
• aparelho
  É preciso criar os instrumentos para tal, nomeadamente no domínio das disposições legislativas, do aparelho de luta contra a fraude e, sobretudo, no que respeita à criação das bases para a cooperação.The necessary instruments must be created, including legal provisions, machinery for combating fraud and in particular a basis for cooperation.
  A criação de um serviço europeu de acção dará um corpo e um aparelho diplomático da União, que até agora só podiam contar com representação nacional. The creation of a European External Action Service will serve as a diplomatic corps and instrument for the Union which, hitherto, could only rely on national representation.

Definition of instrument

• A device used to produce music
• A means or agency for achieving an effect
• A measuring or displaying device
• A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement
• A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will
• A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal
• To apply measuring devices
• To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument

Examples

• The violinist was a master of her instrument
• 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
• a sonata instrumented for orchestra

Related words

• instrumental
• instrumentate
• instruments
• instrumentalist
• instrumentality
• instrumentally
• instrumentation
• instrumentalism
• multi-instrumentalist