Instrument
Instrument noun - An article intended for use in work.
Usage example: always choose the right instrument for any woodworking job
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Synonyms for Instrument
Tool is a synonym for instrument in means topic. In some cases you can use "Tool" instead a noun "Instrument", when it comes to topics like person, measure, machine, puppet. popular alternative
Tool
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| favourite | favourite instrument | favourite tool |
| preferred | preferred instrument | preferred tool |
| good | good instrument | good tool |
| similar | similar instrument | similar tool |
| Other adjectives: common, right, single, chosen, blunt, actual, real, large, little, main, capable, important, necessary, new, useful, political, primary, random, available, magical, favorite. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Musical Assassin: Pretty much any musical instrument, recording, or studio equipment (like the Studio 54 Disco ball, seen in "Duped") in the Warehouse is most likely the tool of such a person.
Source: Series / Warehouse 13 -
A washboard is perhaps one of the few things in which you are just as likely to have seen as a musical instrument, and maybe even more so, as to have seen it used as a laundry tool.
Source: Everything Is an Instrument -
Technically, "the golden compasses" (referring to a "pair of compasses" as in the geometric instrument, rather than the navigation tool).
Source: Literature / His Dark Materials
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Tool and Instrument. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/instrument/tool
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Tool or Instrument. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/instrument/tool.
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