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/ˈɪmpləmənt/ Listen

verb

Implement v. t.

To accomplish; to fulfill. (R.) "Revenge... executed and implemented by the hand of Vanbeest Brown."

To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied, or carried out, by means of an implement or implements. "The chief mechanical requisites of the barometer are implemented in such an instrument as the following."

(Scots Law) To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement.

noun

Implement n. That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, tool, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war. "Genius must have talent as its complement and implement."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Implement" Quotes from Famous Books

... her. In a revulsion of feeling he leaned on his shovel, whereupon a besooted giant of the lower regions tapped his shoulder. This person—foreman of the gang—pointed significantly to the inactive implement. His brow was low, brutish, and he had a fist like a hammer. Mr. Heatherbloom lifted the shovel and looked at the low brow but, fortunately, he did not act on the impulse. It was as if some detaining angel reached down into those realms of Pluto and, at the critical ...

— A Man and His Money • Frederic Stewart Isham

... the last of this work was being done Pennington, as an apparent accident due to excess of zeal, dropped the red-hot end of his implement across the toe of Darrin's ...

— Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis - Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" • H. Irving Hancock

... Roswell was leading his little party across the ice, each man carrying an axe, or some other implement that it was supposed might be of use. It was by no means difficult to proceed; for the surface of the floe, one seemingly more than a league in extent, was quite smooth, and the snow on it was crusted to a strength that ...

— The Sea Lions - The Lost Sealers • James Fenimore Cooper

... Bill one day tearing through Melton with a tin kettle tied to his tail, hunted by a pack of rascally school-boys; one of the little wretches had thrown a stone at him, and poor Bill was bleeding. I managed to stop him, somehow, and to free the poor beast from his implement of torture, and left him licking his wound by the roadside, while I caught two of the boys and thrashed them soundly. I reserved thrashing the others until a convenient season, but they all caught it. I read them a pretty lesson on cruelty to animals. Bill followed me ...

— Our Bessie • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... horse, ordered his dinner at six o'clock—begged to borrow a basket to hold his fish—and it was then apparent that a longish cane he had carried with him was capable of being extended into a fishing-rod. He fitted in the various joints with care, as if to be sure no accident had happened to the implement by the journey—pried anxiously into the contents of a black case of lines and flies—slung the basket behind his back, and while his horse was putting down his nose and whisking about his tail, in the course of those nameless coquetries that horses ...

— Ernest Maltravers, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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