devicede‧vice /dɪˈvaɪs/ ●●○ S3 W2 AWL noun [countable] 
modern labour-saving devicesdevice for doing something a device for separating metal from garbagedevice to do something The company makes devices to detect carbon monoxide.2a special way of doing something that makes it easier to dodevice for doing something Testing yourself with information on cards is a useful device for studying. a memory device3a plan or trick, especially for a dishonest purposedevice to do something Their proposal was only a device to confuse the opposition.4a bomb or other explosive weaponexplosive/nuclear/incendiary etc device5the special use of words in literature, or of words, lights etc in a play, to achieve an effect: Metaphor is a common literary device. → leave somebody to their own devices at leave1(4)COLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + devicean electronic device· The shops are always full of new electronic devices.a mechanical device (=using power from an engine or machine)· One day it will be technically possible to replace patients’ hearts with mechanical devices.a simple device· He invented a simple device for chopping onions.a clever device (=made using a clever idea)· This clever little device rings to tell you where you left your keys.a labour-saving device British English, a labor-saving device American English (=that reduces the amount of work you have to do)· Modern houses have so many labour-saving devices.a security device (=designed to protect against crime)· Cars today have better alarms and security devices.a safety device (=designed to keep people safe)· The accident happened because a simple safety device wasn’t properly fitted.a handheld device (=that you hold in your hand)· This is a handheld device for playing electronic games.a storage device (=a computer device for storing information electronically)· You may need an additional storage device if you have a lot of data.a medical device· The company makes medical devices that use laser technology for correcting eye disorders.
WORD ORIGINdevice
Origin:
1200-1300 Old French devis, devise ‘division, plan’, from deviser ‘to divide, tell’; ➔ DEVISEEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a device for controlling temperature
- a birth control device
- a thermostatic device for controlling temperature
- An EEG is a device that records electrical activity in the brain.
- an explosive device
- Commissions and inquiries are little more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions.
- Four of the victims received serious injuries when the device ripped through one of the station's lavatories.
- He used every device possible to prevent inspectors from entering the premises.
- Police found the device hidden in a suitcase.
- Rahman uses dreams as a device to fill in the characters' backgrounds.
- The farmers there still use the 'Archimedes Screw', an ancient device for raising water from a lake or well.
- The National Association for Elevator Safety says that most elevators have safety devices that prevent free-falls.
- The phone call was just a device to keep him from leaving.
- They were both aware that there might be listening devices hidden in the room.
- A series of simple push-buttons on the solid state device enables the required temperature range to be set precisely.
- Cop shop: Police have opened their own cop shop at Darlington police station to sell personal attack alarms and security devices.
- Moulton said retrofitting could be done, at a cost of about $ 150 for the add-on device.
- Newton has always been positioned as a handheld communications device.
- Recommendations can be made or applications recorded easily with the device using drop-down menus and templates.
- Severe penalties were introduced for abortions and the sale of contraceptive devices.
- The device was removed from the shop and detonated in a controlled explosion.
- What is sought is a device.
THESAURUS
a weapon that explodes: · The bomb exploded on a bus in Jerusalem during the city’s morning rush hour.· Fifty-five people were injured in a car bomb attack in Baghdad.· Morrow was convicted in 1998 of sending four letter bombs (=a small bomb hidden in a package and sent to someone in order to hurt or kill them) to government officials.· People were worried that terrorists would try to detonate a dirty bomb (=a bomb that contains nuclear materials)in the city centre.
bombs or substances that can cause explosions: · They used explosives to blow the door off the front of the building.· The car was packed with 1,000 lbs of high explosives (=powerful explosives).
a bomb – used especially in news reports: · Police found the device hidden in a suitcase.· A bomb threat was received and the building was evacuated, but no device was found.
a bomb that has been made using whatever materials are available, especially one used to blow up soldiers travelling through a place. IED is short for ‘improvised explosive device’: · Several soldiers were killed when an IED exploded as their convoy drove by.
a type of bomb that is hidden just below the ground or under water, and that explodes when it is touched: · The fields are still full of landmines.· The ship struck a mine and sank.
(also hand grenade) a small bomb that can be thrown by hand or fired from a special gun: · He pulled the pin and threw a grenade toward the enemy’s position.
a piece of equipment with moving parts that uses power such as electricity to do a particular job: · a washing machine· an X-ray machine· Staff are trained to operate the machine.
formal a machine or piece of electrical equipment, usually a large one, that people use in the home: · The store sells kitchen appliances such as refrigerators, dishwashers, and toasters.· We carry out repairs on a range of household appliances.
a piece of equipment, usually a small electronic one, that does a special job: · electronic listening devices· 50,000 people downloaded the music to computers or portable devices such as iPods.· The device is fitted to the car and can detect stationary objects ahead.
a small, useful, and cleverly-designed tool or machine: · high-tech gadgets· He buys all the latest gadgets.
a machine or piece of equipment that looks strange or complicated: · There was a bizarre contraption for polishing the floor.
Longman Language Activatoran exploding weapon a weapon that explodes: · The bomb exploded on a bus in Jerusalem during the city's morning rush hour.· The protesters were armed with rocks and petrol bombs.letter bomb (=a small bomb hidden in a package and sent to someone in order to hurt or kill them): · Morrow was convicted in 1998 of sending four letter bombs to government officials.
especially British a bomb - used especially in news reports: · Police found the device hidden in a suitcase.· Four of the victims received serious injuries when the device ripped through one of the station's lavatories.
bombs or substances that can cause explosions: · The bomb, containing 150 grams of explosives, was placed outside the house shortly before 1 am.· Traces of explosives were found on the clothing of the three men accused of the bombing.· a bomb packed with 1,000 lbs of explosives
a machine a piece of equipment that does a particular type of work, either in your home or in a factory, office etc, using power from an engine or from electricity: · a machine that fills beer bottles· One cable was damaged, which was causing the machine to shut down frequently.sewing/washing/fax machine (=a machine for sewing, washing clothes etc): · There is a washing machine in the basement of the building.operate a machine (=make it work): · It's possible to operate the machines by remote control.by machine: · Ice could be made in huge quantities by machine.
a piece of equipment that has been cleverly designed to do a particular job, for example one that makes measurements, records sounds or movements, or controls the operation of a machine: · An EEG is a device that records electrical activity in the brain.device for: · a device for controlling temperature· The farmers there still use the 'Archimedes Screw', an ancient device for raising water from a lake or well.listening/measuring device: · They were both aware that there might be listening devices hidden in the room.safety device: · The National Association for Elevator Safety says that most elevators have safety devices that prevent free-falls.
a machine that is controlled by a computer and can do some of the complicated jobs that humans do, such as making things in a factory: · With the flick of a switch, the robot picks up the bomb, carries it away from buildings, and blows it up.· One astronaut used the space shuttle's robot arm to pick up an 1800-pound satellite from space.
formal a piece of electrical equipment used in your home, such as a washing machine: · People are spending more of their income on goods such as cars and appliances.domestic/household/home appliance: · To make it easier to return any unwanted purchases, save the original packaging, especially for electronics and household appliances.
machines in general, especially the large machines used in factories or on farms: heavy machinery: · The package says you shouldn't drive or operate heavy machinery after taking these pills.industrial/farm machinery: · Industrial machinery and electronic equipment lead the nation's export list.· a company that manufactures farm machinery
a piece of equipment that is designed to do a particular job inside a machine or larger piece of equipment: · The mechanism that raises the bridge was not working correctly.· Unfortunately, the water had damaged the firing mechanism inside the rocket.· The garlic press uses a screw mechanism to squeeze out juice and pulp.
a machine that seems strange and awkward-looking and has lots of pieces joined together in a strange way: · Early cameras were large and expensive contraptions.· By demonstrating his floating contraption - part surfboard, part kayak and part sailboard - Halfon hopes to create a tide of attention.
to use the toilet a thing that you hold in your hand and use to repair, cut, or make something: · He couldn't finish repairing the engine because he didn't have the right tools.tool for: · a tool for cutting metalgardening/kitchen/mining tools: · All my gardening tools had been stolen from the shed.tool box (=a strong box that tools are kept in): · He took a spanner from his tool box and tightened up the bolts on the gate.tool kit (=a set of tools that are kept together): · A good tool kit should contain pliers, screwdrivers, and wire-cutters.
a small tool or device used especially by doctors and scientists, for doing careful or delicate work: · I sat in the dentist's chair and looked at the row of instruments beside me.· The microscope is perhaps the most widely used scientific instrument.· The company specializes in the manufacture of high quality writing instruments.
a small tool that has been cleverly designed to help you do something more easily: · He showed her several electronic gadgets, such as a watch that you can use as a phone.· It's a clever little gadget which you can use to cut vegetables into attractive shapes.· A sales assistant was demonstrating several kitchen gadgets to a crowd of shoppers.
a piece of equipment that has been cleverly designed to do a particular job, for example one that makes measurements, records sounds, or controls the operation of a machine: · An EEG is a device that records electrical activity in the brain.device for doing something: · a thermostatic device for controlling temperature· The farmers there still use the "Archimedes Screw", an ancient device for raising water from a lake or well.
formal a tool or simple machine used for a particular job, especially when working in the garden or on a farm: · The native women grind the wheat with heavy stone implements.· It is best to cut weeds off at the roots with an implement such as a hoe.farming/cooking/writing etc implements: · Some children find it difficult to hold their writing implements.
a piece of equipment, especially one used in the kitchen to prepare food: · Peter found the potato peeler in a drawer full of utensils.· We packed a few essential cooking utensils such as pots and a can opener for our camping trip.· You will find a wide range of kitchen utensils in our cookshop on the second floor.
a clever or dishonest way of getting what you want a clever way of gaining an advantage, for example by making people feel concerned about you or making them feel grateful towards you: · The religious element of their election campaign was a cynical ploy.ploy to do something: · He's not really ill, it's just a ploy to make us feel sorry for him.
something that is intended to achieve a particular aim, especially an aim that is slightly dishonest or unacceptable: device to do something: · He used every device possible to prevent inspectors from entering the premises.· Commissions and inquiries are little more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions.
clever ways of getting an advantage, especially by doing something that is unusual or secret: ways and means of doing something: · Dealers have ways and means of making people smuggle drugs for them.
WORD SETScar bomb, noundefuse, verbdevice, noundisarm, verbexplosion, nounexplosive, nounfuse, nounguerrilla, noungunman, noungunpowder, noungun-running, nounletter bomb, nounmine, nounmine, verbminefield, nounMolotov cocktail, nounparamilitary, adjectivepetrol bomb, nounSemtex, nounterror, nounterrorism, nounterrorist, nountime bomb, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + device A small explosive device (=bomb) was set off outside the UN headquarters today. The explosion seems to have been caused by an incendiary device. Students were left to their own devices (=left alone and allowed to do whatever they wanted) for long periods. stylistic features of the storyCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· The shops are always full of new electronic devices.
(=using power from an engine or machine)· One day it will be technically possible to replace patients’ hearts with mechanical devices.
· He invented a simple device for chopping onions.
(=made using a clever idea)· This clever little device rings to tell you where you left your keys.
British English, a labor-saving device American English (=that reduces the amount of work you have to do)· Modern houses have so many labour-saving devices.
(=designed to protect against crime)· Cars today have better alarms and security devices.
(=designed to keep people safe)· The accident happened because a simple safety device wasn’t properly fitted.
(=that you hold in your hand)· This is a handheld device for playing electronic games.
(=a computer device for storing information electronically)· You may need an additional storage device if you have a lot of data.
· The company makes medical devices that use laser technology for correcting eye disorders.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES A small explosive device (=bomb) was set off outside the UN headquarters today. The explosion seems to have been caused by an incendiary device. Students were left to their own devices (=left alone and allowed to do whatever they wanted) for long periods. stylistic features of the story· Chip makers want to shrink their chips to meet the demand for faster electronic devices and computers.· One of the maids, like an electronic sensing device, opened the door as I approached.· To play the game, children run the hand-held electronic device over the barcode of any product.· It is linked by wire to a briefcase-sized electronic device fifty yards away.· Massey has also added an electronic device on its 6-cylinder tractors for automatically raising and lowering semi-mounted ploughs at the headland.· Flash memory is a type of semiconductor chip used to store data in computers and electronic devices.· We are evaluating a more sophisticated electronic device which allows the entire theatre team at risk to be monitored with minimal inconvenience.· He was not handcuffed, but wore an electronic restraining device under a blue check shirt and gray slacks.
· A small explosive device used in the booster-separation system failed to fire when Endeavour launched on 30 November last year.· There have been no additional explosive devices found nor any arrests made.· The wheel could have controlled an explosive device.· He said the equipment could be used at checkpoints to search people for explosive devices.· How could this explosive device possibly have been smuggled aboard?· He then turned away and detonated the explosive device strapped to his body.· One of the earliest explosive devices was the petard, which was a mine used to breach castle walls or gates.· They were being held without bail on suspicion of conspiracy, possession of explosive devices and burglary.
· An incendiary device exploded setting fire to furniture, but the blaze was brought under control.· But taxes, earlier considered the incendiary device of the race, may no longer be so.· The caller claimed three incendiary devices had been planted at the Vineyards.· Sources said the explosion seemed to have been caused by an incendiary device.· But the incendiary devices were different from those used in previous arson attacks by the extremist group.· Then a series of cassette-sized incendiary devices were carefully hidden in a number of stores.· Firemen found more than a dozen incendiary devices in the offices near Borden, Hants, used by scientists to study squirrels.
· It's either a mechanical or electrical device.· But the Earth as mechanical device has been a harder idea to swallow.· No mechanical devices or hormones are used.· Similar mechanical devices are planned for the space station.· Simple mechanical devices were placed in the test room to maintain an accurate record of output.
· The company makes medical devices that use laser technology for correcting nearsightedness and other eye disorders.· Two medical device makers also were in the plus column.· Boston Scientific develops and markets medical devices.· This group would evaluate current or anticipated shortages of and increased demand for drugs, biologics, or related medical devices.· Also putting in strong years: aerospace and defense, oil drilling and medical device companies.· Assess the impact of modern medical devices on the emergence and prevention of nosocomial infections.· Use of invasive medical devices, such as indwelling catheters, often carries a risk for infection.· Medtronic Inc. v. Lohr: Federal law does not prevent patients from suing manufacturers of defective medical devices in state courts.
· The new device, called a quiteron, exploits the strange properties that some substances develop at very low temperatures.· Our Astern also contains the newest computerized scanning device that determines exactly where and when the intrusion occurred.· He's using a lot of natural sounds - kitchen percussion, crowd voices ... all sorts of new devices ....· Supplemental Help: A new device to help consumers choose nutritional supplements may be coming to a drugstore near you.· Agfa will be showing a pair of new devices while Xerox will have its new 1,200dpi ProImager device.· Consumers have no say in this arrangement; they are expected to simply buy the new devices and learn the lingo.· Voice over Monitoring of large rivers has been made easier by a new device, which tells scientists where fish are lurking.· There he was handed a smock and a scalpel and one of the new surgical stapling devices.
· If the scientists succeed, they will have taken a small step toward improving the efficiency of nuclear fusion devices.· There would have been small nuclear devices loosed upon the Metroplex if Dallas had lost.· The dangers of creating a miniature nuclear device worried them and also increased their concerns for safety.· Thus the need for underground testing of nuclear devices, a practice now banned by the treaty.· The section for training in portable nuclear devices had been in the deep cellars of the monastery.· As little as 55 pounds of highly enriched uranium or 18 pounds of plutonium could be used to build a nuclear device.· He weighed up what he needed to tell her about the shapechangers and theft of the nuclear device.
· The radio waves may come not only from transmitters but power supplies, motors or other electrical devices.· Publicity differs from the other promotional devices mentioned in this chapter in that it often does not cost the organization any money!· In some other devices semiconductor beads are used instead of metallic sensors.· It was a simple but effective system of welfare financed partly by taxes and partly by other devices.· Boltzmann machines and other similar devices have foundations in information theory.· The other class of devices are designed to detect the relative movement of freely suspended massive blocks.· Next month we will print animal behaviourist John Fisher's views on this and other extreme training devices.· Memories of other similar devices flickered for an instant.
· It is this component, comprising its symbolic aspects of rhetorical and metaphorical devices, which we refer to as its circumference.· A rhetorical device with which to disarm his critics?· However, he does not justify this suggestion by giving the criteria for classifying a mode of expression as a rhetorical device.
· Boltzmann machines and other similar devices have foundations in information theory.· Even when two schools utilized a similar device, advisory, the implementation of that program came out in very different ways.· Their proposals are for a traffic-calming ramp or similar device, or even just a sign reminding drivers of the speed limit.· Police then destroyed three similar devices.· Five similar devices were found in mail at the building's sorting office and defused by the Army.· In 1864 du Hauron patented a similar device.· Yesterday police were still combing the area for any similar devices which may have been hidden and for further clues.
· This can be done by means of a simple, well-tested device called a Sabatier reactor.· The judges will look for simple and effective devices which also demonstrate market potential and value for money.· These were very simple devices two small paraffin burners in square tins which gave a modest flame.· The simple childhood device for sketching them by superimposing a small egg shape for the body remains unrivalled.· On assembly lines, cleverly simple devices prevent mistakes.· A disclaimer is an obvious and simple device for a trader to use to avoid committing an offence.· The box bellows is a simple device which can be constructed by anyone with rudimentary carpentry skills.
· These were to identify, but not describe or interpret, the stylistic devices present in a given text.· Ripken grabbed a piece of wood, stepped to the plate and started batting practice with his own stylistic device.
· Incorporation thus brings with it a useful device to facilitate borrowing, from both the company and the lender's viewpoint.· Where previous models had been brain models first and useful devices second, Hopfield reversed the priorities.· Cards are also a useful device for revision.· The separation of strategies into generic versions is a useful conceptual device, even if such strategies become intertwined in practice.· A useful device is to find an empty room, away from all your papers, documents, and other distractions.· We added one further session to summarise useful devices for coping with and overcoming bulimia.· Mankind has, of course, long exploited this simple principle for generating non-randomness, in the useful device known as the sieve.· But he argues that rule-making is none the less a useful device, and that it is often preferable to direct action.
· The various devices used by the courts to maintain the present position will be discussed below.· Its long-term effect however was to provoke Edinburgh employers into various devices to evade the high piece-work rates stipulated by the Interlocutor.· Between mosaics of this format various aquatic devices are also significant.· But individual nations also have recourse to the selective use of various devices for bending the rules of international free trade.
NOUN· The network comprises a storage and control device which is linked to a ring of terminals and computers.· The most important use of the budget is as a planning and control device.· The subordinates see the control device as confirming mistrust.· Birth control devices and information had never been widely available, and now they all but disappeared.· But it's a technique which can be used in many different ways, for example: As a control device.· They became an accounting device to help managers, not a control device to hem them in.· This story itself offers a useful control device in that you're asking them how they manage without magic.· When the temperature control device is operating, Reclamation can have it both ways.
· More complex services - from device driver interfaces up will be handled by the operating system personality on top.· This, in turn, relieves the software houses of the problem of having to write and test numerous device drivers.· It is now said to have completed the main porting work and is now wading through the device driver work.· It will provide updated device drivers for the next release of Windows For Workgroups.· Specific device drivers are required for each relational database.
· Cheap high-resolution input and output devices will soon ensure the same kind of revolution in the cinema.· Thus an output device is needed to make the user aware of what the microcomputer has done.· This procedure sends a byte to the output device.· The cheapest and most readily-available output device is the printer.· Suggest instructions to control a set of output devices, and extend your interrupt service routine accordingly.· It also did away with the need for bias adjustment on the output devices - a most desirable quality.· Although the ultimate resolution rests with the output device it is essential that the software can at least provide control over it.
· LID/SPLASHBACK Toughened glass lid with safety device which cuts off gas to Hotplate when lid is closed, with audible warning.· Now, 80 percent of the handguns sold in this country will come with the safety devices.· Doors will now have to be fitted with special safety devices to prevent people or objects getting trapped in them.· There was testimony, lots of it, on how to fix a safety device Congress and federal regulators once deemed perfect.· If it's a dangerous model Candy will send an engineer within 10 days to fit a safety device.· The removal of safety devices to speed up production, for instance, is often done with the tacit connivance of supervisors.· BThe company further says that it does not market phones explicitly as safety devices.· Essential safety devices if you've got children!
· Cop shop: Police have opened their own cop shop at Darlington police station to sell personal attack alarms and security devices.· Especially if you've splashed out on security devices.· Ask your car dealer these questions: What security devices come as standard?· What optional extra security devices are available?· Turn on or activate any security devices you have fitted.· The Home Office has also been remiss about security devices, an important subject that has been debated at length today.· Lock all doors and windows Fit security devices recommended in this booklet - and use them!
· Connected to the computer is some form of storage device which enables information to be accessed and updated quickly.· Both services allow users to send their data over the Internet to company storage devices.· What is clear is that the costs of memory and storage devices are decreasing, whilst storage capacity is increasing enormously.· Sales of large-scale data storage devices also increased strongly, while earnings from computer maintenance services hardly changed.· The compression will let digital audio-visual services be carried by terrestrial and satellite channels, telecommunications networks or digital storage devices.· We have seen how staggeringly impressive it is as an accurate data storage device.· Cheaper memory, faster processors, and larger storage devices, come on to the market with increasing rapidity.· Hardware used to capture video images, process them, and send the digitised images to storage devices.
VERB· But these devices allow it to remain out of water for only a short time.· The devices will allow national park staff to monitor rhino movements 24 hours a day.· Commissions and inquiries are rarely more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions.· Passport schemes are a price discrimination device which allows subsidies to be directed towards target groups.· This means that these devices actually allow pregnancies to begin and then abort them, a notion out of line with biblical concepts.· We are evaluating a more sophisticated electronic device which allows the entire theatre team at risk to be monitored with minimal inconvenience.· His idea of heaven would be for some one to design a device which would allow him to read a book in there.· A security device might allow one person to enter, but phone the police if it detects a known burglar.
· Doors will now have to be fitted with special safety devices to prevent people or objects getting trapped in them.· If it's a dangerous model Candy will send an engineer within 10 days to fit a safety device.· Most modern household appliances, such as washing machines and dishwashers are already fitted with non-return devices.
· This is a specific form of market failure, since the market left to its own devices does not give sufficient knowledge.· I was left to my own devices.· She knew that I was perfectly capable of having the whole thing made in black leatherette if left to my own devices.· On the days when I am left to my own devices I am a bit of a disgrace really.· The flies are allowed to settle on the surface and are left to their own devices.· The global economy, left to its own devices, generates enormous wealth and poverty at the same time.· The implementation or administrative process is far too important to be left to its own devices.· Users generally complained that, once treatment was over, they were left to their own devices in the community.
· It even supplies baby listening devices.· The businessman was then wired with a listening device and given $ 30, 000 to offer Mr Tucker.· Former officers ofthe service who carried out the bugging told Berlin's Tagesspiel newspaper that they used automatic radio listening devices.· Although listening devices and seismic instruments were put in place, efforts to pinpoint the source of the noise were unsuccessful.
· A number of brewers now use a device called a cask breather on low volume beers to prolong their life.· Some use other devices to prop the branches.· Police said the bombers may have planned to use those unexploded devices in pursuit of their plot.· Sometimes different sequences may need quite marked adjustment using filters and other devices to achieve the right harmonious effect.· They used the devices of anthropology, sociology, history, and biology trying to prove that Negroes were inferior.· Aren't you more likely to enter or retrieve information about an appointment or contact using the device itself?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1a machine or tool that does a special job SYN gadget: - Into this would be built an early warning system to keep the business on the right financial track.
- She wondered if she had developed an early warning system since the fiasco with Marcus.
- The antibody test is the best early warning device available.
- Their fortunes may thereby serve as an early warning system to humankind of previously unrecognized environmental problems.
- They have an early warning system.
- This knowledge also improves early warning systems for the events.
- Timely recognition of emerging infections requires early warning systems to detect new infectious diseases before they become public health crises.
- Use was made of facilities for communications, intelligence gathering, and early warning systems.
modern labour-saving devicesdevice for doing something a device for separating metal from garbagedevice to do something The company makes devices to detect carbon monoxide.2a special way of doing something that makes it easier to dodevice for doing something Testing yourself with information on cards is a useful device for studying. a memory device3a plan or trick, especially for a dishonest purposedevice to do something Their proposal was only a device to confuse the opposition.4a bomb or other explosive weaponexplosive/nuclear/incendiary etc device5the special use of words in literature, or of words, lights etc in a play, to achieve an effect: Metaphor is a common literary device. → leave somebody to their own devices at leave1(4)COLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + devicean electronic device· The shops are always full of new electronic devices.a mechanical device (=using power from an engine or machine)· One day it will be technically possible to replace patients’ hearts with mechanical devices.a simple device· He invented a simple device for chopping onions.a clever device (=made using a clever idea)· This clever little device rings to tell you where you left your keys.a labour-saving device British English, a labor-saving device American English (=that reduces the amount of work you have to do)· Modern houses have so many labour-saving devices.a security device (=designed to protect against crime)· Cars today have better alarms and security devices.a safety device (=designed to keep people safe)· The accident happened because a simple safety device wasn’t properly fitted.a handheld device (=that you hold in your hand)· This is a handheld device for playing electronic games.a storage device (=a computer device for storing information electronically)· You may need an additional storage device if you have a lot of data.a medical device· The company makes medical devices that use laser technology for correcting eye disorders.- compassion fatigue
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