1. tool
I need proper tools.
A half-dozen tools make up the tool collection.
That red cloth is a "fukusa"; it is a vital tool used to cleanse the tea equipment.
A favorite tool in dealing with blatant racism is blatant ableism.
Visualization, a favorite tool of the psychologist, cannot solve all problems, but many so-called positive thinkers seem to think that it can.
Tax cuts are often used as a major fiscal tool to stimulate the economy.
Administrator and moderators are working for the best language tool, Tatoeba Project.
There is a good number of problems for which the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions are insufficient to guarantee optimality, but this doesn't change the fact that these conditions are an indispensable tool for doing optimization.
Your son is playing with my tool. Tell him I need it here right now.
I was tooling at about 150 mph when that Smokey caught me.
This is a tool to force Polish government to support Mr Tusk to second term.
O.K., I'm a tool. But at least I have a chance to accomplish something in my life this way.
Where did you put your tools? / IPA is Such a great tool for students to practice their pronunciation.
She doesn't have any tools, she is only pretty
Everyone who uses Esperanto or works for it, is an Esperantist, and every Esperantist has the complete right, in Esperanto, to see only the language as a simple, cold tool for international comprehension.
2. device
Tom doesn't want an iPad. He wants a portable device that supports Flash.
a modern device
The state of the art is the highest level of development, as of a device, technique, or scientific field, achieved at a particular time.
A device implanted in the spinal cord, dubbed the Orgasmotron, allows female patients to experience orgasm with the flick of a remote control.
It would be difficult to improve the device when there is no effective catalyst.
The management wishes to inform guests that the television has been fitted with an anti-theft device.
She wanted her company to develop a wearable device to diagnose and treat every illnes.
I found this odd-looking device in an antique shop. What do you make of it?
A display, aka monitor, is an appliance that displays video signal of still images and moving pictures produced by a computer or similar device.
Savant-powered iTouch devices (iPads, iPhones or iPods)
Rob and Finn discuss the risks posed by this new device which many smokers are using in order to cut down on smoking?
You have to turn off devices, like mobile phones, in the classroom.
Rescuers used a special device for finding people trapped in collapsed buildings.
Good writers only use cohesive devices (linking words) when they have to.
Since the arrival of mobile devices and the wireless Internet, our media habits have changed completely.
3. instrument
What's your favorite musical instrument?
The thermometer is an instrument for measuring temperature.
The instrument panel has a very ergonomic layout.
All the instruments are broken.
Modern harps have a series of pedals that enable the performer to tune the instrument to any diatonic scale.
He was the instrument of his father's crimes.
No instrument is snootier than the piccolo trumpet.
Language is an indispensable instrument of human society.
I think style or genre are less important factors in making us like music than the individual artists skills in arrangement and playing of the instrument.
No matter which musical instrument you want to learn to play, the most important thing is not to make any mistakes from the beginning on, because mistakes are always imprinted on your mind more easily than everything you do right.
The sphygmomanometer is an important diagnostic instrument.
I'd like to play an instrument but i hanen't got a good ear for music
Every child is taught to play at least one instrument at their school.
The Internet is a very powerful instrument of communication.
Theremin: The world's first electronic musical instrument, made by Russian physicist Lev Sergeivitch Termen in 1920.