Diapason vs. Instrument — What's the Difference?

A full, rich outpouring of harmonious sound.

A tool or implement used to do or facilitate work, especially a small precision tool used by a professional

The entire range of an instrument or voice.

A device for recording, measuring, or controlling, especially such a device functioning as part of a control system.

Either of the two principal stops on a pipe organ that form the tonal basis for the entire scale of the instrument.

(Music) A device designed to enable a person to make musical sounds, as by blowing into it, striking it, depressing the keys on a keyboard, or plucking, strumming, or running a bow over strings.

The interval and the consonance of an octave.

A means by which something is done; an agency

A standard indication of pitch.

One used by another to accomplish a purpose; a dupe.

A tuning fork.

A legal document, especially one that represents a right of payment or conveys an interest, such as a check, promissory note, deed, or will.

(music) The musical octave.

To provide or equip with instruments.

The range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument.

(Music) To compose or arrange for performance.

(musical instrument) A tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipe organ.

A device used to produce music.

A harmonious outpouring of sound.

A means or agency for achieving an effect.

The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale. Compare disdiapason.

A measuring or displaying device.

Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony.

A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.

The entire compass of tones; the entire compass of tones of a voice or an instrument.

Ellipsis of flight instrument

A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason.

(legal) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.

One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like.

(figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.

Either of the two main stops on a pipe organ

(transitive) To apply measuring devices.

(transitive) To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.

To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.

That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; a device; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical instruments.

A contrivance or implement, by which musical sounds are produced; as, a musical 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.

One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium, means, or agent; as, their army was primarily an instrument of oppression.

To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument; as, a sonata instrumented for orchestra.

To furnish or equip with instruments; to attach instruments to; as, the fighter planes were heavily instrumented; the patient was instrumented to monitor him remotely.

A device that requires skill for proper use

The means whereby some act is accomplished;

A person used by another to gain an end

(law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right

The semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process

Any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds

Equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling

Write an instrumental score for

Address a legal document to