Device

Quick meaning: Device is a noun meaning Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.

Meaning

Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.

More Meanings

1. (computer hardware) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
2. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
3. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
4. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
5. 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."
6. A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device. (heraldry) 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.
7. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: equipment, tool, machine

His device is against Babylon, to destroy it.

Their recent device of demanding benevolences.

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Word Forms

• devices

Synonyms for device

Depending on context, synonyms include apparatus, appliance, equipment, gadget, design, contrivance.

Antonyms for device

Common opposites include nondevice.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include twist, gimmick, contrivance, machinery, apparatus, contraption.

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