Word Meanings - EARPICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An instrument for removing wax from the ear.
Related words: (words related to EARPICK)
- INSTRUMENTAL
Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental - INSTRUMENTALITY
The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense - INSTRUMENTATION
1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical - REMOVER
One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon. - INSTRUMENTALLY
1. By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end. South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke. 2. With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied. Mason. - INSTRUMENT
A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc. Burrill. 4. One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium, - REMOVED
1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n. - REMOVE
1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered - INSTRUMENTALISM
The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n. Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these - INSTRUMENTALIST
One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist. - INSTRUMENTALNESS
Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality. Hammond. - REMOVABLE
Admitting of being removed. Ayliffe. -- Re*mov`a*bil"i*ty (-, n. - INSTRUMENTIST
A performer on a musical instrument; an instrumentalist. - INSTRUMENTARY
Instrumental. - REMOVAL
The act of removing, or the state of being removed. - IRREMOVABLE
Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv. - IRREMOVABILITY
The quality or state of being irremovable; immovableness. - IRREMOVAL
Absence of removal.