device
Meaning
Noun
- Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
- A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
- A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
- An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
- A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
- A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.
- Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
- An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
- An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
- A spectacle or show.
- Opinion; decision.
Related
Similar words
- apparatus, appliance, equipment, gadget, design, contrivance
- scheme, project, stratagem, artifice
- invention, contrivance
Narrower meaning words
- biodevice
- plant floor device
- e-book device
- end-of-train device
- framing device
- intrauterine device
- literary device
- peripheral device
- unibody device
Origin
- From Old French devis, from Latin divisus, past participle of dividere
Modern English dictionary
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