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/dɪˈvaɪs/ · noun
Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one..
Near-synonyms: equipment, tool, machine
1949. Geneva Convention on Road Traffic Chapter VI. Provisions Applicable to Cycles in International Traffic Every cycle shall be equipped with: … (b) an audible warning device consisting of a bell …
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
His device is against Babylon, to destroy it.
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Their recent device of demanding benevolences.
So next day the hunting began. I did not know how to shoot, but I proceeded to learn. And when I had expended some thirty shells for three seals, I decided that the ammunition would be exhausted before I acquired the necessary knowledge. I had used eight shells for lighting fires before I hit upon the device of banking the embers with wet moss, and there remained not over a hundred shells in the box.
FOR a month Tarzan was a regular and very welcome devotee at the shrine of the beautiful Countess de Coude. […] More often Olga found devices that would give her an hour of Tarzan alone.
Use device when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Device means Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one..
Common synonyms include apparatus, appliance, equipment, gadget.
Possible antonyms include nondevice.
Near-synonyms: equipment, tool, machine
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