device
/dɪˈvaɪs/
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
- plural
- devices
Meanings
- 1
Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one
What is this device for?
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How does this device work?
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- 2
A peripheral device; an item of hardware
- 3
A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. 1602, Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. "This is our device,/ That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us."
- 4
An improvised explosive device, home-made bombrare
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A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical devicerare
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Power of devising; invention; contrivancerare
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An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service markrare
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An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or proveniencerare
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Any specific class of wordplay element in a cryptic crosswordrare
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A spectacle or showrare