Implement
['ɪmplɪm(ə)nt] or ['ɪmplɪmɛnt]
Definition
(noun.) instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end.
(verb.) apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design; 'implement a procedure'.
Checker: Wilmer--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To accomplish; to fulfill.
(v. t.) To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied, or carried out, by means of an implement or implements.
(v. t.) To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Instrument, tool, utensil.
Typist: Naomi
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Instrument, utensil, tool, appliance
ANT:Labor, work, science, art, manufacture, agriculture
Checker: Sheena
Definition
n. a tool or instrument of labour.—v.t. to give effect to: to fulfil or perform.—adj. Implemen′tal acting as an implement.—n. Implē′tion a filling: the state of being full.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of implements, denotes unsatisfactory means of accomplishing some work. If the implements are broken, you will be threatened with death or serious illness of relatives or friends, or failure n business.
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Examples
- Possibly the implement-using disposition was already present in the Mesozoic ancestry from which we are descended. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You are provided with the needful implement--a book, sir? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Primitive men of the Stone Age used an implement that might by courtesy be called a spoon. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In 1799, Boyce, of England, had a vertical shaft with six rotating scythes beneath the frame of the implement. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Mousterian Age implements, and all above it, are those of Neanderthal men or, possibly in the case of the rostro-carinates, of sub-men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- After they had waited some time, straggling people who had heard of the accident began to come up; then the real help of implements began to arrive. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Wood-working implements in which the cutting tool was carried by a sliding block were described in the English patents of General Sir Samuel Bentham and Joseph Bramah, in 1793-94. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Paul cast at these implements; he hated them mortally, considering sewing a source of distraction from the attention due to himself. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They cast the copper in moulds made to the shape of the stone implements. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But most had flails obtained from the store of Don Guillermo Martin, who was a fascist and sold all sorts of agricultural implements. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Madame's resolute right hand was occupied with an axe, in place of the usual softer implements, and in her girdle were a pistol and a cruel knife. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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