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UK
/dɪvˈaɪs/
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[ US /dɪˈvaɪs/ ]
[ US /dɪˈvaɪs/ ]
NOUN
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an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose
the device is small enough to wear on your wrist
a device intended to conserve water - something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect
- any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery)
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any clever maneuver
he would stoop to any device to win a point
a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen
it was a great sales gimmick -
an emblematic design (especially in heraldry)
he was recognized by the device on his shield
How To Use device In A Sentence
- A vacuum absorbing device absorbs the smooth plane of the extracting device and the socket connector is positioned on the circuit board, thus achieving the goal of automatic assembling.
- When left to my own devices for a couple of weeks, I begin to habitually bake and craft and, well, housekeep.
- So spake he, and Athene was mightily angered at heart, and chid Odysseus in wrathful words: Odysseus, thou hast no more steadfast might nor any prowess, as when for nine whole years continually thou didst battle with the Trojans for high born Helen, of the white arms, and many men thou slewest in terrible warfare, and by thy device the wide-wayed city of Priam was taken. Book XXII
- The 7100, which also works as a phone, should appeal to customers who want a single device for calls and e-mail.
- And in the long term, as the mobile industry gets more accustomed to the idea of upgradeable phone software, more and more devices will be upgraded. EWeek - RSS Feed
- So, the system of existential graphs actually requires three dimensions for its representations, although the third dimension in which the torus is embedded can usually be represented in two dimensions by the use of pictorial devices that Peirce called “fornices” or “tunnel-bridges” and by the use of identificational devices that Peirce called Nobody Knows Nothing
- The interior of the suction device is sleeved with a nozzle unit device which can inject backwash water to a suction port and the low pressure area of the filter screen part.
- This includes such items as telephones, radios, televisions and recording devices.
- Meanwhile, in January 1999, FDA rescinded its compliance policy guide that had regulated third-party servicers of medical devices.
- He replied, “I know not; but thou art better able to judge, being acquainted with the ways of thy man, more by token that thou art one of the sharpest-witted of women and past mistress of devices such as devise that whereof fail the wise.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
