implement
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈɪmplɪmənt/
- The toolbox was filled with various implements, including wrenches and screwdrivers.
- tillage implement
- farm implements
- writing implement
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Watch on YouTubeThe oldest known game implements are older than the oldest, oldest known writing.
- The oldest known game implements are older than the oldest, oldest known writing.
- COVID, I'll need my microscope and my various implements.
- So the spacing was done because of large farming implements.
- So you have some expectation of how you shake a person's hand and how you deal with with implements on a table, how you have a meal together.
- Swords were also the most prestigious weapon, most prestigious type of fighting implement for the early Anglo Saxons.
- And we store junk tractor implements, extra concrete pots, palletized things like there's some soil back there and fertilizer, that sort of thing.
- Others gave first crack at buying these implements to their brothers.
- He'd broke them, shoot them, train them to pull implements.
- In an old farm implement Land Rover Defender, a manual transmission with a giant shift lever and a long throw and very vague shift gates.
Examples
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The disk plow has always been the basic tillage implement on the farm.
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You can use a stick or other implement.
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And in ancient times, did you know... ...that this was actually used as a hunting implement?
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Well, I've been in the farm implement business.
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Additional auction sales of stock, farm implements, and household goods added to the average farmers' capital pool.
Academic text (1992) -
All four men hold books and writing implements, icons of their intellectual pursuits.
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There's a plantation about a mile from here wth many of the implements of the kind you just described.
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Farmers often use a plow as an essential tillage implement for preparing the soil.
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In the kitchen, a knife is a versatile implement for cutting fruits and vegetables.
Synonyms
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2.1
A machine or tool made to do a particular job
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1.1
A thing you hold to do a job, like a hammer
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1.3
A tool used for cooking or eating
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Etymology
Implement (the noun) comes from the same Latin implere 'to fill' and originally meant something 'put in' to do a job. Think of an implement as a thing you 'put into' work to get it done, which is why it now means a tool or piece of equipment.