Band Definition–noun | 1. | a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters. | | 2. | Music. | a. | a group of instrumentalists playing music of a specialized type: rock band; calypso band; mariachi band. | | b. | a musical group, usually employing brass, percussion, and often woodwind instruments, that plays esp. for marching or open-air performances. | | | 3. | a division of a nomadic tribe; a group of individuals who move and camp together and subsist by hunting and gathering. | | 4. | a group of persons living outside the law: a renegade band. | –verb (used with object) | 5. | to unite in a troop, company, or confederacy. | –verb (used without object) | 6. | to unite; confederate (often fol. by together): They banded together to oust the chairman. | —Idiom | 7. | to beat the band, Informal. energetically; abundantly: It rained all day to beat the band. | |
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Instrument Definition–noun | 1. | a mechanical tool or implement, esp. one used for delicate or precision work: surgical instruments. | | 2. | a contrivance or apparatus for producing musical sounds: a stringed instrument. | | 3. | a means by which something is effected or done; agency: an instrument of government. | | 4. | a device for measuring the present value of a quantity under observation. | | 5. | a mechanical or electronic measuring device, esp. one used in navigation: landing a plane by instruments. | | 6. | a formal legal document, as a draft or bond: negotiable instruments. | | 7. | a person used by another merely as a means to some private end; tool or dupe. | –verb (used with object) | 8. | to equip with instruments, as a machine or manufacturing process: to instrument a space vehicle. | | 9. | to arrange a composition for musical instruments; orchestrate. | |
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