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Definition of gadget in English: gadgetnounˈɡadʒɪtˈɡædʒət A small mechanical or electronic device or tool, especially an ingenious or novel one. a variety of kitchen gadgets Example sentencesExamples - But if policy is not your thing, there will be plenty of gadgets and gizmos on display too.
- You have a variety of weapons and gadgets to choose from, and a variety of ways to use them.
- It seems that robots are being received as gadgets, rather than as machines that could transform the way we live our lives.
- As technology develops it gets harder and harder to work out what has changed when a new gadget or widget goes on sale.
- The mechanical gadget is operated by a spring which has to be cranked using a key.
- If you take on smaller clients you might even get board games, household gadgets and perpetual motion machines.
- Suppliers want in to introduce garden tools, furniture and gadgets to the biggest possible market.
- The gadget helped earn the young inventor a first class honours degree from Brunel University.
- He asked lots of questions and by the end of the week he had all the gadgets he could possibly need in his kitchen.
- It may be disused fitness equipment, untouched kitchen gadgets or scores of unwanted CDs and books.
- She likes the kitchen gadgets, haberdashery and garden furniture departments.
- I recall all sorts of cooking gadgets that went in and out of the kitchen over the years.
- The hysteria has sponsored a vast range of gimmicks and gadgets designed to exploit eager demand.
- Now people have matching furniture, and kitchen gadgets, and pictures on the walls.
- This is a nation full of tech-savvy people who are crazy for all the latest gadgets and gizmos.
- In the society's little kitchen, visitors can see another set of gadgets.
- Whenever he is buying a gadget or an appliance, he thinks his life would get a little better thereafter.
- Today, our lives are filled with all manner of gadgets, gizmos and convenience goods.
- If you like gizmos, there is no limit to the gadgets you can buy, but your rucksack will be extremely heavy.
- Americans also have a strong technological bias, and are a people of tools and gadgets, so to speak.
Synonyms appliance, apparatus, instrument, implement, tool, utensil, contrivance, contraption, machine, mechanism, device, labour-saving device, convenience, invention, thing Heath Robinson device North American Rube Goldberg device informal widget, gismo, thingummy, gimmick, mod con British informal doobry, doodah
Origin Late 19th century (originally in nautical use): probably from French gâchette 'lock mechanism' or from the French dialect word gagée 'tool'. Sailors were the first people to talk about gadgets. The word started out in nautical slang as a general term for any small device or mechanism or part of a ship. This is the earliest recorded use, dated 1886: ‘Then the names of all the other things on board a ship! I don't know half of them yet; even the sailors forget at times, and if the exact name of anything they want happens to slip from their memory, they call it a chicken-fixing, or a gadjet, or a gill-guy, or a timmey-noggy, or a wim-wom.’ The word is probably from French gâchette ‘a lock mechanism’ or gagée ‘tool’. See also widget
Definition of gadget in US English: gadgetnounˈɡædʒətˈɡajət A small mechanical or electronic device or tool, especially an ingenious or novel one. a state-of-the-art kitchen with every conceivable gadget Example sentencesExamples - Suppliers want in to introduce garden tools, furniture and gadgets to the biggest possible market.
- As technology develops it gets harder and harder to work out what has changed when a new gadget or widget goes on sale.
- You have a variety of weapons and gadgets to choose from, and a variety of ways to use them.
- It may be disused fitness equipment, untouched kitchen gadgets or scores of unwanted CDs and books.
- The gadget helped earn the young inventor a first class honours degree from Brunel University.
- Whenever he is buying a gadget or an appliance, he thinks his life would get a little better thereafter.
- If you like gizmos, there is no limit to the gadgets you can buy, but your rucksack will be extremely heavy.
- I recall all sorts of cooking gadgets that went in and out of the kitchen over the years.
- In the society's little kitchen, visitors can see another set of gadgets.
- He asked lots of questions and by the end of the week he had all the gadgets he could possibly need in his kitchen.
- It seems that robots are being received as gadgets, rather than as machines that could transform the way we live our lives.
- Americans also have a strong technological bias, and are a people of tools and gadgets, so to speak.
- Now people have matching furniture, and kitchen gadgets, and pictures on the walls.
- If you take on smaller clients you might even get board games, household gadgets and perpetual motion machines.
- She likes the kitchen gadgets, haberdashery and garden furniture departments.
- The mechanical gadget is operated by a spring which has to be cranked using a key.
- This is a nation full of tech-savvy people who are crazy for all the latest gadgets and gizmos.
- But if policy is not your thing, there will be plenty of gadgets and gizmos on display too.
- The hysteria has sponsored a vast range of gimmicks and gadgets designed to exploit eager demand.
- Today, our lives are filled with all manner of gadgets, gizmos and convenience goods.
Synonyms appliance, apparatus, instrument, implement, tool, utensil, contrivance, contraption, machine, mechanism, device, labour-saving device, convenience, invention, thing
Origin Late 19th century (originally in nautical use): probably from French gâchette ‘lock mechanism’ or from the French dialect word gagée ‘tool’. |