Definition of device in English:

device

noun dɪˈvʌɪsdəˈvaɪs

1A thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment.
a measuring device
Example sentencesExamples
- The equipment includes special gripping devices for pens to help people write with a shaking wrist and also cheque signing guides.
- Radioactivity cannot be felt, smelled, seen, or heard directly and is detectable only with the aid of mechanical or electronic devices.
- From his youth Brunelleschi had been interested in mechanical devices, in particular clocks, wheels, gears and weights.
- The Homeland Security Department is also testing alternatives, such as electronic monitoring devices.
- A video camera was trained on her throughout her first visit, she was wired up to enough electrical measuring devices to light a small town, and obligingly she repeatedly passed out.
- Inventors of the tiniest machines have tapped various power sources for their devices: electricity, light, even DNA.
- The aim of nanotechnology is to manipulate molecules atom by atom, treating them like mechanical devices with gears, wheels, levers, hooks, pivots, locks and keys.
- Winnipeg's experience with both types of electronic traffic control devices is still relatively short.
- Basically, the computers and other electronic devices would do most of the work and the only problem would lie in how to spend all this spare time.
- There is the haphazard cluster of dozens of small stalls that sell everything from pins to electronic devices.
- Fitted with whirring wheels, gears and other devices, the old mechanical toys have acquired retro-cool status among many affluent young collectors.
- It's too difficult to take notes with a stylus, and the keyboards for these devices are separate pieces of equipment.
- All chipmakers, including market leader Intel, have been hit by falling demand from the makers of communications equipment and consumer electronic devices.
- Automobiles have traditionally been seen as mechanical devices with some electric components.
- When his home in Bridgemill Road, Blackburn, was raided, hundreds of discs, mailing lists, copying devices and computer equipment were found in a back bedroom.
- Cameras are very complex devices full of electronic trickery and mechanical movements.
- Such articles include electronic devices, dust handling equipment and notebook computer enclosures.
- Systems of this kind are being introduced in washing machines, automobiles, medical instruments, telecommunication devices and defence equipment.
- Mobile fuel cells can power cars and portable electronic devices, such as cell phones and laptop computers.
- The other piece of equipment is a device called a hydrometer, which measures alcoholic strength.
Synonyms
implement, gadget, utensil, tool, appliance, piece of equipment, apparatus, piece of apparatus, piece of hardware, instrument, machine, mechanism, contrivance, contraption, invention, convenience, amenity, aid
informal gizmo, widget, mod con
1. 1.1 A bomb or other explosive weapon.
  an incendiary device
  Example sentencesExamples
  Officers were yesterday searching several addresses but no weapons or any explosive devices were believed to have been found.
  The work of military and civilian bomb disposal experts also involves the handling of improvised explosive devices planted by terrorist groups.
  The truth is that weapons, even explosive or incendiary devices, still can get aboard a plane.
  Almost all were killed by improvised explosive devices and land mines.
  Roadside bombs or improvised explosive devices are inflicting a heavy toll on American troops.
  Well it's a bomb, an explosive device, which has contained within it some radioactive material.
  ‘Ambulances have been used as a method of transporting militants, weapons, and explosive devices,’ he says.
  Powerful states cannot fully escape bricolage terrorism, nail bombs, elementary nuclear devices, and homemade biological weapons.
  Over the past decade, we have learned a thing or two about how insurgents fight, their tactics and methods, and their weapons and explosive devices.
  The 1949 Soviet explosion of a nuclear device reinforced the image of an external threat.
  The vehicles will provide increased protection against grenades, improvised explosive devices, and small-arms fire.
  The dogs are not used to detect mines or booby traps - they are only trained to detect raw explosives such, as improvised explosive devices, and weapons and ammunition.
  Food is acquired by using an incendiary device, a hand grenade thrown into the water, producing a harvest of frogs.
  An improvised explosive device, a pipe bomb, went off and yes, it has, I suppose, marred the reputation of the 1996 Olympics.
  Bucher considered stocking the ship with Thermite, an incendiary device that is very difficult to extinguish.
  Car bombs are a very significant part, car bombs, truck bombs, explosive devices.
  A dirty bomb is an explosive device manufactured to spread harmful radioactive material over a wide range.
  Their priority is an end to air strikes, tank attacks, artillery barrages, sniping, car bombs and roadside explosive devices.
  Iam brought several pounds of plastic explosives and detonation devices with him to sabotage the plant when the time came.
  They've been firing into those improvised explosive devices, homemade bombs, with tanks, setting off huge explosions.
  Synonyms
  explosive, incendiary device, incendiary
2A plan, method, or trick with a particular aim.
writing a letter to a newspaper is a traditional device for signalling dissent
Example sentencesExamples
- Traditional constitutional devices had neutralized this democratic threat by ensuring that state power remained limited in size and scope.
- Moore's method uses the axiomatic method as an instructional device.
- The board is adopting devices and methods to defeat the very purpose and object of the Bank.
- Here, traditional Mediterranean devices have been collaged together to give a human heart to the formerly coldly functional institution.
- Anarchists don't salute anyone and they wouldn't think to use it as a mnemonic device, but their method is the same.
- Then, the methods and devices listed above will also work for removing cooking odors.
- Instead, what we end up with is a parlor trick as plot device, a shockingly surreal way of keeping both husband and wife front and center in the storyline.
- He asks her to go to Hong Kong with him but she rejects his offer using the device of a card trick and both leave with regret.
- But while questions linger, so do doubts about the play's structure and plot devices.
- There are many devices and methods used to detect and quantify subsurface moisture.
- Some readers may be frustrated by the apparent lack of action and the leisurely pace of the plot but these devices are used intentionally by McEwan to convey his overall message.
- Mercury rules the animal spirit and is the author of subtlety, tricks, devices, and perjury.
- Oh, and Scully had a kid who could move things around with his mind, a plot device I haven't seen since Bewitched.
- Doris and Nana appear out of nowhere and act as little more than clumsy devices to move the plot along and reveal the truth behind mysteries set up elsewhere.
- The device also aims to counter the Chancellor's plans of introducing a tax on extra bags left outside wheelie bins.
- The traditional device is to terrify the population.
- In the absence of other methods and devices, an Australian Bill of Rights may have been useful.
- These told me that Lichtenstein's style defined his approach - he made it his own; it wasn't an affectation, a mere imitative device or clever trick.
- Daniel Brochu is somewhat wasted in the role of younger Vinci brother Francesco who is, again, less of a character in his own right than a device to move the plot along.
- At times, he can't resist using pat plot devices to move action along, or coasting on a kind of breezy glibness.
Synonyms
ploy, plan, cunning plan, tactic, move, means, stratagem, scheme, plot, trick, ruse, gambit, manoeuvre, machination, intrigue, contrivance, expedient, dodge, artifice, subterfuge, game, wile
British informal wheeze
archaic shift
1. 2.1 A form of words intended to produce a particular effect in speech or a literary work.
  a rhetorical device
  Example sentencesExamples
  Such an ambivalence would make for incoherence and would be hard to accept if we had here mere rhetorical devices and style recipes.
  Literary devices such as similes and personification are introduced.
  Obviously, this a rhetorical device: a trope or some sort of shorthand for the linking of theory to practice.
  In one sense, metaphor and symbol are literary devices while in another they represent actual involuntary psychic processes.
  Yet isn't prosopopeia a rhetorical device that is found, as a matter of course, in all poetry?
  To that end, the employment of a first-person subjective voice is one of the most powerful literary devices that creative nonfiction writers can use.
  These ten poems are not joined together by a narrative structure, or recurring rhetorical devices intended to produce a unified group of poems.
  Detailed studies confirmed that the same stylistic features, the same literary devices such as irony and double-meanings, and the same theological motifs are found in all parts of the text.
  Included in this ‘style’ section are the traditional rhetorical devices and figures of speech.
  ‘The Divine Comedy’ is an epic poem brimming with information and eloquent literary devices.
  Angelo, on the other hand, has fifty-six lines before he meets with Isabella which contain few rhetorical devices, in keeping with forensic speech.
  I was teaching a basic college writing course one summer at the local community college and I wanted to explain irony as a literary device.
  The next step is a focus on specific rhetorical devices.
  The blatantness of its rhetorical devices and the perverseness of its address create discomfort for serious theorists.
  In a work of literature Stewart's lies would constitute synecdoche, the rhetorical device in which a part stands for the whole.
  How can the highest aspirations of verse be linked to such rhetorical devices?
  Finally, in this poem as in many others in the same collection, Prévert employs the list as a rhetorical poetic device.
  An inventive, engaging and meaningful use of the device of prosopopœia is a vibrant element of Prynne's poesis.
  No memorized list of rhetorical devices will make an orator of a student who cannot grasp and creatively imitate the structure of a twenty-minute speech.
  A book that uses literary language and other literary devices demands the attention of its readers.
3A drawing or design.
the decorative device on the invitations
Example sentencesExamples
- He had a taste for popular decorative devices, such as fruit, flowers, and brocades, which resulted in a curious and engaging blend of naivety and sophistication.
- The superior canines of the adult bear were extracted, probably for use as decorative devices.
1. 3.1 An emblematic or heraldic design.
  their shields bear the device of the Blazing Sun
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Lord Lyon wrote to us a year ago saying that schools with heraldic devices should get in touch to check if they were allowed to use them.
  Heraldic devices shifted from the surcoat to the material covering the plates, although armour of the third period was often decorated by etching and painting.
  This shield is distinct in scale, materials, and technique from the other heraldic devices in this window.
  The device is heraldic again, but it also protects the galleried space from excessive insolation.
  If a hallmark on a spoon is so worn you can't make it out, which side bears the heraldic device could give a clue to its date.
  He chose the Corbinian Bear as an heraldic device for his papal coat of arms.
  The heraldic devices are the least subtle aspect of the window.
  Heraldic devices were by far the most popular motifs.
  For all of that it's not a bad place to live, and that flying standard, with its strange old heraldic devices is still serving its purpose.
  The significance of this unique sculpture is uncertain but a heraldic device of the ruling elite or an aniconic symbol of a protecting deity are possibilities.
  He wore full plate-armor of unfinished black and his shield bore no device.
  In the center of each diamond was a small shield with what I took to be a heraldic device painted on it.
  After the conquest, local weavers added heraldic devices to their own decorative motifs.
  In elite society, aristocratic funerary sculpture quickly replaced religious imagery with heraldic and symbolic devices.
  Synonyms
  emblem, symbol, logo, badge, stamp, trademark, crest, insignia, coat of arms, escutcheon, seal, mark, figure, design, rune, logotype, logogram, monogram, hallmark, tag, motto, token, motif, colophon, ideogram
2. 3.2archaic mass noun The design or look of something.
  works of strange device
  Example sentencesExamples
  Her cave was stored with scrolls of strange device.
  On its surface is a raised cross of beautiful device, by the side of whose shaft is a knight's sword.

Phrases

leave someone to their own devices

Leave someone to do as they wish without supervision.
left to her own devices, Lucy wondered what she should do next
Example sentencesExamples
- Things did pick up in the second half, with the best scenes between Marie, Ben and Pete as they are left to their own devices on the ward.
- I think if we were to turn the clock back, we wouldn't have left them to their own devices, more or less unsupervised, for three years, while they blithered and had their internal political machinations and so on.
- Without an institution to cling to, they are left to their own devices in all respects.
- Brox realizes how difficult it will be for the schools the longer they are left to their own devices.
- Nature magically stimulates children's imaginations; their level of inventiveness and ingenuity seems to explode when they are left to their own devices.
- Members of the community say they have been left to their own devices by law enforcement officials for many years, and are struggling between an instinctive resentment of police and a burgeoning sense of the size of the problem.
- After flip-flopping, he finally kicked them out on October 3, leaving them to their own devices.
- Bemused families said they were left to their own devices while Army personnel began controlled explosions.
- Stuck in the limbo of adolescence, too old to be tucked up in bed, too young to go down the pub, they are left to their own devices.
- More than 300 Buddhists from Kent and Essex have been left to their own devices to worship at their own shrines at home or work.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French devis, based on Latin divis- 'divided', from the verb dividere. The original sense was 'desire or intention', found now only in leave someone to their own devices (which has become associated with sense 2).

The original sense of device was ‘desire, intention’, which is found now only in to leave a person to their own devices. It does occur in the title of the novel Devices and Desires by the crime writer P. D. James, taken from the Book of Common Prayer: ‘We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts.’ The source of device is a French form based on Latin dividere ‘to divide’. Its sense developed from ‘desire, intention’ to ‘a plan, scheme, trick’ and then the usual modern meaning of ‘a thing made or adapted for a particular purpose’.

Definition of device in US English:

device

noundəˈvaɪsdəˈvīs

1A thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment.
a measuring device
Example sentencesExamples
- All chipmakers, including market leader Intel, have been hit by falling demand from the makers of communications equipment and consumer electronic devices.
- When his home in Bridgemill Road, Blackburn, was raided, hundreds of discs, mailing lists, copying devices and computer equipment were found in a back bedroom.
- The Homeland Security Department is also testing alternatives, such as electronic monitoring devices.
- Cameras are very complex devices full of electronic trickery and mechanical movements.
- Such articles include electronic devices, dust handling equipment and notebook computer enclosures.
- There is the haphazard cluster of dozens of small stalls that sell everything from pins to electronic devices.
- Radioactivity cannot be felt, smelled, seen, or heard directly and is detectable only with the aid of mechanical or electronic devices.
- Systems of this kind are being introduced in washing machines, automobiles, medical instruments, telecommunication devices and defence equipment.
- Winnipeg's experience with both types of electronic traffic control devices is still relatively short.
- Automobiles have traditionally been seen as mechanical devices with some electric components.
- From his youth Brunelleschi had been interested in mechanical devices, in particular clocks, wheels, gears and weights.
- The aim of nanotechnology is to manipulate molecules atom by atom, treating them like mechanical devices with gears, wheels, levers, hooks, pivots, locks and keys.
- The other piece of equipment is a device called a hydrometer, which measures alcoholic strength.
- It's too difficult to take notes with a stylus, and the keyboards for these devices are separate pieces of equipment.
- Basically, the computers and other electronic devices would do most of the work and the only problem would lie in how to spend all this spare time.
- Mobile fuel cells can power cars and portable electronic devices, such as cell phones and laptop computers.
- Fitted with whirring wheels, gears and other devices, the old mechanical toys have acquired retro-cool status among many affluent young collectors.
- A video camera was trained on her throughout her first visit, she was wired up to enough electrical measuring devices to light a small town, and obligingly she repeatedly passed out.
- Inventors of the tiniest machines have tapped various power sources for their devices: electricity, light, even DNA.
- The equipment includes special gripping devices for pens to help people write with a shaking wrist and also cheque signing guides.
Synonyms
implement, gadget, utensil, tool, appliance, piece of equipment, apparatus, piece of apparatus, piece of hardware, instrument, machine, mechanism, contrivance, contraption, invention, convenience, amenity, aid
1. 1.1 A bomb or other explosive weapon.
  an incendiary device
  Example sentencesExamples
  Food is acquired by using an incendiary device, a hand grenade thrown into the water, producing a harvest of frogs.
  The 1949 Soviet explosion of a nuclear device reinforced the image of an external threat.
  Well it's a bomb, an explosive device, which has contained within it some radioactive material.
  Almost all were killed by improvised explosive devices and land mines.
  Roadside bombs or improvised explosive devices are inflicting a heavy toll on American troops.
  The truth is that weapons, even explosive or incendiary devices, still can get aboard a plane.
  Bucher considered stocking the ship with Thermite, an incendiary device that is very difficult to extinguish.
  A dirty bomb is an explosive device manufactured to spread harmful radioactive material over a wide range.
  The work of military and civilian bomb disposal experts also involves the handling of improvised explosive devices planted by terrorist groups.
  They've been firing into those improvised explosive devices, homemade bombs, with tanks, setting off huge explosions.
  Their priority is an end to air strikes, tank attacks, artillery barrages, sniping, car bombs and roadside explosive devices.
  Car bombs are a very significant part, car bombs, truck bombs, explosive devices.
  The vehicles will provide increased protection against grenades, improvised explosive devices, and small-arms fire.
  Iam brought several pounds of plastic explosives and detonation devices with him to sabotage the plant when the time came.
  Officers were yesterday searching several addresses but no weapons or any explosive devices were believed to have been found.
  ‘Ambulances have been used as a method of transporting militants, weapons, and explosive devices,’ he says.
  The dogs are not used to detect mines or booby traps - they are only trained to detect raw explosives such, as improvised explosive devices, and weapons and ammunition.
  An improvised explosive device, a pipe bomb, went off and yes, it has, I suppose, marred the reputation of the 1996 Olympics.
  Powerful states cannot fully escape bricolage terrorism, nail bombs, elementary nuclear devices, and homemade biological weapons.
  Over the past decade, we have learned a thing or two about how insurgents fight, their tactics and methods, and their weapons and explosive devices.
  Synonyms
  explosive, incendiary device, incendiary
2A plan, scheme, or trick with a particular aim.
writing a public letter is a traditional device for signaling dissent
Example sentencesExamples
- Oh, and Scully had a kid who could move things around with his mind, a plot device I haven't seen since Bewitched.
- Anarchists don't salute anyone and they wouldn't think to use it as a mnemonic device, but their method is the same.
- There are many devices and methods used to detect and quantify subsurface moisture.
- Some readers may be frustrated by the apparent lack of action and the leisurely pace of the plot but these devices are used intentionally by McEwan to convey his overall message.
- These told me that Lichtenstein's style defined his approach - he made it his own; it wasn't an affectation, a mere imitative device or clever trick.
- Instead, what we end up with is a parlor trick as plot device, a shockingly surreal way of keeping both husband and wife front and center in the storyline.
- Traditional constitutional devices had neutralized this democratic threat by ensuring that state power remained limited in size and scope.
- He asks her to go to Hong Kong with him but she rejects his offer using the device of a card trick and both leave with regret.
- Then, the methods and devices listed above will also work for removing cooking odors.
- The device also aims to counter the Chancellor's plans of introducing a tax on extra bags left outside wheelie bins.
- At times, he can't resist using pat plot devices to move action along, or coasting on a kind of breezy glibness.
- But while questions linger, so do doubts about the play's structure and plot devices.
- Mercury rules the animal spirit and is the author of subtlety, tricks, devices, and perjury.
- The traditional device is to terrify the population.
- Here, traditional Mediterranean devices have been collaged together to give a human heart to the formerly coldly functional institution.
- Doris and Nana appear out of nowhere and act as little more than clumsy devices to move the plot along and reveal the truth behind mysteries set up elsewhere.
- The board is adopting devices and methods to defeat the very purpose and object of the Bank.
- Daniel Brochu is somewhat wasted in the role of younger Vinci brother Francesco who is, again, less of a character in his own right than a device to move the plot along.
- Moore's method uses the axiomatic method as an instructional device.
- In the absence of other methods and devices, an Australian Bill of Rights may have been useful.
Synonyms
ploy, plan, cunning plan, tactic, move, means, stratagem, scheme, plot, trick, ruse, gambit, manoeuvre, machination, intrigue, contrivance, expedient, dodge, artifice, subterfuge, game, wile
1. 2.1 A turn of phrase intended to produce a particular effect in speech or a literary work.
  a rhetorical device
  Example sentencesExamples
  Finally, in this poem as in many others in the same collection, Prévert employs the list as a rhetorical poetic device.
  In one sense, metaphor and symbol are literary devices while in another they represent actual involuntary psychic processes.
  Such an ambivalence would make for incoherence and would be hard to accept if we had here mere rhetorical devices and style recipes.
  The next step is a focus on specific rhetorical devices.
  Obviously, this a rhetorical device: a trope or some sort of shorthand for the linking of theory to practice.
  How can the highest aspirations of verse be linked to such rhetorical devices?
  These ten poems are not joined together by a narrative structure, or recurring rhetorical devices intended to produce a unified group of poems.
  In a work of literature Stewart's lies would constitute synecdoche, the rhetorical device in which a part stands for the whole.
  A book that uses literary language and other literary devices demands the attention of its readers.
  Included in this ‘style’ section are the traditional rhetorical devices and figures of speech.
  ‘The Divine Comedy’ is an epic poem brimming with information and eloquent literary devices.
  An inventive, engaging and meaningful use of the device of prosopopœia is a vibrant element of Prynne's poesis.
  The blatantness of its rhetorical devices and the perverseness of its address create discomfort for serious theorists.
  To that end, the employment of a first-person subjective voice is one of the most powerful literary devices that creative nonfiction writers can use.
  No memorized list of rhetorical devices will make an orator of a student who cannot grasp and creatively imitate the structure of a twenty-minute speech.
  Detailed studies confirmed that the same stylistic features, the same literary devices such as irony and double-meanings, and the same theological motifs are found in all parts of the text.
  Literary devices such as similes and personification are introduced.
  Yet isn't prosopopeia a rhetorical device that is found, as a matter of course, in all poetry?
  I was teaching a basic college writing course one summer at the local community college and I wanted to explain irony as a literary device.
  Angelo, on the other hand, has fifty-six lines before he meets with Isabella which contain few rhetorical devices, in keeping with forensic speech.
3A drawing or design.
the decorative device on the invitations
Example sentencesExamples
- The superior canines of the adult bear were extracted, probably for use as decorative devices.
- He had a taste for popular decorative devices, such as fruit, flowers, and brocades, which resulted in a curious and engaging blend of naivety and sophistication.
1. 3.1 An emblematic or heraldic design.
  their shields bear the device of the Blazing Sun
  Example sentencesExamples
  In elite society, aristocratic funerary sculpture quickly replaced religious imagery with heraldic and symbolic devices.
  Heraldic devices shifted from the surcoat to the material covering the plates, although armour of the third period was often decorated by etching and painting.
  This shield is distinct in scale, materials, and technique from the other heraldic devices in this window.
  The significance of this unique sculpture is uncertain but a heraldic device of the ruling elite or an aniconic symbol of a protecting deity are possibilities.
  After the conquest, local weavers added heraldic devices to their own decorative motifs.
  He chose the Corbinian Bear as an heraldic device for his papal coat of arms.
  In the center of each diamond was a small shield with what I took to be a heraldic device painted on it.
  If a hallmark on a spoon is so worn you can't make it out, which side bears the heraldic device could give a clue to its date.
  He wore full plate-armor of unfinished black and his shield bore no device.
  The device is heraldic again, but it also protects the galleried space from excessive insolation.
  The Lord Lyon wrote to us a year ago saying that schools with heraldic devices should get in touch to check if they were allowed to use them.
  The heraldic devices are the least subtle aspect of the window.
  For all of that it's not a bad place to live, and that flying standard, with its strange old heraldic devices is still serving its purpose.
  Heraldic devices were by far the most popular motifs.
  Synonyms
  emblem, symbol, logo, badge, stamp, trademark, crest, insignia, coat of arms, escutcheon, seal, mark, figure, design, rune, logotype, logogram, monogram, hallmark, tag, motto, token, motif, colophon, ideogram
2. 3.2archaic The design or look of something.
  works of strange device
  Example sentencesExamples
  Her cave was stored with scrolls of strange device.
  On its surface is a raised cross of beautiful device, by the side of whose shaft is a knight's sword.

Phrases

leave someone to their own devices

Leave someone to do as they wish without supervision.
Example sentencesExamples
- I think if we were to turn the clock back, we wouldn't have left them to their own devices, more or less unsupervised, for three years, while they blithered and had their internal political machinations and so on.
- Without an institution to cling to, they are left to their own devices in all respects.
- Members of the community say they have been left to their own devices by law enforcement officials for many years, and are struggling between an instinctive resentment of police and a burgeoning sense of the size of the problem.
- Stuck in the limbo of adolescence, too old to be tucked up in bed, too young to go down the pub, they are left to their own devices.
- Nature magically stimulates children's imaginations; their level of inventiveness and ingenuity seems to explode when they are left to their own devices.
- More than 300 Buddhists from Kent and Essex have been left to their own devices to worship at their own shrines at home or work.
- Bemused families said they were left to their own devices while Army personnel began controlled explosions.
- After flip-flopping, he finally kicked them out on October 3, leaving them to their own devices.
- Things did pick up in the second half, with the best scenes between Marie, Ben and Pete as they are left to their own devices on the ward.
- Brox realizes how difficult it will be for the schools the longer they are left to their own devices.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French devis, based on Latin divis- ‘divided’, from the verb dividere. The original sense was ‘desire or intention’, found now only in leave someone to their own devices (which has become associated with device (sense 2)).

单词	device
释义	Definition of device in English: device noun dɪˈvʌɪsdəˈvaɪs 1A thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment. a measuring device Example sentencesExamples The equipment includes special gripping devices for pens to help people write with a shaking wrist and also cheque signing guides. Radioactivity cannot be felt, smelled, seen, or heard directly and is detectable only with the aid of mechanical or electronic devices. From his youth Brunelleschi had been interested in mechanical devices, in particular clocks, wheels, gears and weights. The Homeland Security Department is also testing alternatives, such as electronic monitoring devices. A video camera was trained on her throughout her first visit, she was wired up to enough electrical measuring devices to light a small town, and obligingly she repeatedly passed out. Inventors of the tiniest machines have tapped various power sources for their devices: electricity, light, even DNA. The aim of nanotechnology is to manipulate molecules atom by atom, treating them like mechanical devices with gears, wheels, levers, hooks, pivots, locks and keys. Winnipeg's experience with both types of electronic traffic control devices is still relatively short. Basically, the computers and other electronic devices would do most of the work and the only problem would lie in how to spend all this spare time. There is the haphazard cluster of dozens of small stalls that sell everything from pins to electronic devices. Fitted with whirring wheels, gears and other devices, the old mechanical toys have acquired retro-cool status among many affluent young collectors. It's too difficult to take notes with a stylus, and the keyboards for these devices are separate pieces of equipment. All chipmakers, including market leader Intel, have been hit by falling demand from the makers of communications equipment and consumer electronic devices. Automobiles have traditionally been seen as mechanical devices with some electric components. When his home in Bridgemill Road, Blackburn, was raided, hundreds of discs, mailing lists, copying devices and computer equipment were found in a back bedroom. Cameras are very complex devices full of electronic trickery and mechanical movements. Such articles include electronic devices, dust handling equipment and notebook computer enclosures. Systems of this kind are being introduced in washing machines, automobiles, medical instruments, telecommunication devices and defence equipment. Mobile fuel cells can power cars and portable electronic devices, such as cell phones and laptop computers. The other piece of equipment is a device called a hydrometer, which measures alcoholic strength. Synonyms implement, gadget, utensil, tool, appliance, piece of equipment, apparatus, piece of apparatus, piece of hardware, instrument, machine, mechanism, contrivance, contraption, invention, convenience, amenity, aid informal gizmo, widget, mod con 1.1 A bomb or other explosive weapon. an incendiary device Example sentencesExamples Officers were yesterday searching several addresses but no weapons or any explosive devices were believed to have been found. The work of military and civilian bomb disposal experts also involves the handling of improvised explosive devices planted by terrorist groups. The truth is that weapons, even explosive or incendiary devices, still can get aboard a plane. Almost all were killed by improvised explosive devices and land mines. Roadside bombs or improvised explosive devices are inflicting a heavy toll on American troops. Well it's a bomb, an explosive device, which has contained within it some radioactive material. ‘Ambulances have been used as a method of transporting militants, weapons, and explosive devices,’ he says. Powerful states cannot fully escape bricolage terrorism, nail bombs, elementary nuclear devices, and homemade biological weapons. Over the past decade, we have learned a thing or two about how insurgents fight, their tactics and methods, and their weapons and explosive devices. The 1949 Soviet explosion of a nuclear device reinforced the image of an external threat. The vehicles will provide increased protection against grenades, improvised explosive devices, and small-arms fire. The dogs are not used to detect mines or booby traps - they are only trained to detect raw explosives such, as improvised explosive devices, and weapons and ammunition. Food is acquired by using an incendiary device, a hand grenade thrown into the water, producing a harvest of frogs. An improvised explosive device, a pipe bomb, went off and yes, it has, I suppose, marred the reputation of the 1996 Olympics. Bucher considered stocking the ship with Thermite, an incendiary device that is very difficult to extinguish. Car bombs are a very significant part, car bombs, truck bombs, explosive devices. A dirty bomb is an explosive device manufactured to spread harmful radioactive material over a wide range. Their priority is an end to air strikes, tank attacks, artillery barrages, sniping, car bombs and roadside explosive devices. Iam brought several pounds of plastic explosives and detonation devices with him to sabotage the plant when the time came. They've been firing into those improvised explosive devices, homemade bombs, with tanks, setting off huge explosions. Synonyms explosive, incendiary device, incendiary 2A plan, method, or trick with a particular aim. writing a letter to a newspaper is a traditional device for signalling dissent Example sentencesExamples Traditional constitutional devices had neutralized this democratic threat by ensuring that state power remained limited in size and scope. Moore's method uses the axiomatic method as an instructional device. The board is adopting devices and methods to defeat the very purpose and object of the Bank. Here, traditional Mediterranean devices have been collaged together to give a human heart to the formerly coldly functional institution. Anarchists don't salute anyone and they wouldn't think to use it as a mnemonic device, but their method is the same. Then, the methods and devices listed above will also work for removing cooking odors. Instead, what we end up with is a parlor trick as plot device, a shockingly surreal way of keeping both husband and wife front and center in the storyline. He asks her to go to Hong Kong with him but she rejects his offer using the device of a card trick and both leave with regret. But while questions linger, so do doubts about the play's structure and plot devices. There are many devices and methods used to detect and quantify subsurface moisture. Some readers may be frustrated by the apparent lack of action and the leisurely pace of the plot but these devices are used intentionally by McEwan to convey his overall message. Mercury rules the animal spirit and is the author of subtlety, tricks, devices, and perjury. Oh, and Scully had a kid who could move things around with his mind, a plot device I haven't seen since Bewitched. Doris and Nana appear out of nowhere and act as little more than clumsy devices to move the plot along and reveal the truth behind mysteries set up elsewhere. The device also aims to counter the Chancellor's plans of introducing a tax on extra bags left outside wheelie bins. The traditional device is to terrify the population. In the absence of other methods and devices, an Australian Bill of Rights may have been useful. These told me that Lichtenstein's style defined his approach - he made it his own; it wasn't an affectation, a mere imitative device or clever trick. Daniel Brochu is somewhat wasted in the role of younger Vinci brother Francesco who is, again, less of a character in his own right than a device to move the plot along. At times, he can't resist using pat plot devices to move action along, or coasting on a kind of breezy glibness. Synonyms ploy, plan, cunning plan, tactic, move, means, stratagem, scheme, plot, trick, ruse, gambit, manoeuvre, machination, intrigue, contrivance, expedient, dodge, artifice, subterfuge, game, wile British informal wheeze archaic shift 2.1 A form of words intended to produce a particular effect in speech or a literary work. a rhetorical device Example sentencesExamples Such an ambivalence would make for incoherence and would be hard to accept if we had here mere rhetorical devices and style recipes. Literary devices such as similes and personification are introduced. Obviously, this a rhetorical device: a trope or some sort of shorthand for the linking of theory to practice. In one sense, metaphor and symbol are literary devices while in another they represent actual involuntary psychic processes. Yet isn't prosopopeia a rhetorical device that is found, as a matter of course, in all poetry? To that end, the employment of a first-person subjective voice is one of the most powerful literary devices that creative nonfiction writers can use. These ten poems are not joined together by a narrative structure, or recurring rhetorical devices intended to produce a unified group of poems. Detailed studies confirmed that the same stylistic features, the same literary devices such as irony and double-meanings, and the same theological motifs are found in all parts of the text. Included in this ‘style’ section are the traditional rhetorical devices and figures of speech. ‘The Divine Comedy’ is an epic poem brimming with information and eloquent literary devices. Angelo, on the other hand, has fifty-six lines before he meets with Isabella which contain few rhetorical devices, in keeping with forensic speech. I was teaching a basic college writing course one summer at the local community college and I wanted to explain irony as a literary device. The next step is a focus on specific rhetorical devices. The blatantness of its rhetorical devices and the perverseness of its address create discomfort for serious theorists. In a work of literature Stewart's lies would constitute synecdoche, the rhetorical device in which a part stands for the whole. How can the highest aspirations of verse be linked to such rhetorical devices? Finally, in this poem as in many others in the same collection, Prévert employs the list as a rhetorical poetic device. An inventive, engaging and meaningful use of the device of prosopopœia is a vibrant element of Prynne's poesis. No memorized list of rhetorical devices will make an orator of a student who cannot grasp and creatively imitate the structure of a twenty-minute speech. A book that uses literary language and other literary devices demands the attention of its readers. 3A drawing or design. the decorative device on the invitations Example sentencesExamples He had a taste for popular decorative devices, such as fruit, flowers, and brocades, which resulted in a curious and engaging blend of naivety and sophistication. The superior canines of the adult bear were extracted, probably for use as decorative devices. 3.1 An emblematic or heraldic design. their shields bear the device of the Blazing Sun Example sentencesExamples The Lord Lyon wrote to us a year ago saying that schools with heraldic devices should get in touch to check if they were allowed to use them. Heraldic devices shifted from the surcoat to the material covering the plates, although armour of the third period was often decorated by etching and painting. This shield is distinct in scale, materials, and technique from the other heraldic devices in this window. The device is heraldic again, but it also protects the galleried space from excessive insolation. If a hallmark on a spoon is so worn you can't make it out, which side bears the heraldic device could give a clue to its date. He chose the Corbinian Bear as an heraldic device for his papal coat of arms. The heraldic devices are the least subtle aspect of the window. Heraldic devices were by far the most popular motifs. For all of that it's not a bad place to live, and that flying standard, with its strange old heraldic devices is still serving its purpose. The significance of this unique sculpture is uncertain but a heraldic device of the ruling elite or an aniconic symbol of a protecting deity are possibilities. He wore full plate-armor of unfinished black and his shield bore no device. In the center of each diamond was a small shield with what I took to be a heraldic device painted on it. After the conquest, local weavers added heraldic devices to their own decorative motifs. In elite society, aristocratic funerary sculpture quickly replaced religious imagery with heraldic and symbolic devices. Synonyms emblem, symbol, logo, badge, stamp, trademark, crest, insignia, coat of arms, escutcheon, seal, mark, figure, design, rune, logotype, logogram, monogram, hallmark, tag, motto, token, motif, colophon, ideogram 3.2archaic mass noun The design or look of something. works of strange device Example sentencesExamples Her cave was stored with scrolls of strange device. On its surface is a raised cross of beautiful device, by the side of whose shaft is a knight's sword. Phrases leave someone to their own devices Leave someone to do as they wish without supervision. left to her own devices, Lucy wondered what she should do next Example sentencesExamples Things did pick up in the second half, with the best scenes between Marie, Ben and Pete as they are left to their own devices on the ward. I think if we were to turn the clock back, we wouldn't have left them to their own devices, more or less unsupervised, for three years, while they blithered and had their internal political machinations and so on. Without an institution to cling to, they are left to their own devices in all respects. Brox realizes how difficult it will be for the schools the longer they are left to their own devices. Nature magically stimulates children's imaginations; their level of inventiveness and ingenuity seems to explode when they are left to their own devices. Members of the community say they have been left to their own devices by law enforcement officials for many years, and are struggling between an instinctive resentment of police and a burgeoning sense of the size of the problem. After flip-flopping, he finally kicked them out on October 3, leaving them to their own devices. Bemused families said they were left to their own devices while Army personnel began controlled explosions. Stuck in the limbo of adolescence, too old to be tucked up in bed, too young to go down the pub, they are left to their own devices. More than 300 Buddhists from Kent and Essex have been left to their own devices to worship at their own shrines at home or work. Origin Middle English: from Old French devis, based on Latin divis- 'divided', from the verb dividere. The original sense was 'desire or intention', found now only in leave someone to their own devices (which has become associated with sense 2). The original sense of device was ‘desire, intention’, which is found now only in to leave a person to their own devices. It does occur in the title of the novel Devices and Desires by the crime writer P. D. James, taken from the Book of Common Prayer: ‘We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts.’ The source of device is a French form based on Latin dividere ‘to divide’. Its sense developed from ‘desire, intention’ to ‘a plan, scheme, trick’ and then the usual modern meaning of ‘a thing made or adapted for a particular purpose’. noun.1 phr. Definition of device in US English: device noundəˈvaɪsdəˈvīs 1A thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment. a measuring device Example sentencesExamples All chipmakers, including market leader Intel, have been hit by falling demand from the makers of communications equipment and consumer electronic devices. When his home in Bridgemill Road, Blackburn, was raided, hundreds of discs, mailing lists, copying devices and computer equipment were found in a back bedroom. The Homeland Security Department is also testing alternatives, such as electronic monitoring devices. Cameras are very complex devices full of electronic trickery and mechanical movements. Such articles include electronic devices, dust handling equipment and notebook computer enclosures. There is the haphazard cluster of dozens of small stalls that sell everything from pins to electronic devices. Radioactivity cannot be felt, smelled, seen, or heard directly and is detectable only with the aid of mechanical or electronic devices. Systems of this kind are being introduced in washing machines, automobiles, medical instruments, telecommunication devices and defence equipment. Winnipeg's experience with both types of electronic traffic control devices is still relatively short. Automobiles have traditionally been seen as mechanical devices with some electric components. From his youth Brunelleschi had been interested in mechanical devices, in particular clocks, wheels, gears and weights. The aim of nanotechnology is to manipulate molecules atom by atom, treating them like mechanical devices with gears, wheels, levers, hooks, pivots, locks and keys. The other piece of equipment is a device called a hydrometer, which measures alcoholic strength. It's too difficult to take notes with a stylus, and the keyboards for these devices are separate pieces of equipment. Basically, the computers and other electronic devices would do most of the work and the only problem would lie in how to spend all this spare time. Mobile fuel cells can power cars and portable electronic devices, such as cell phones and laptop computers. Fitted with whirring wheels, gears and other devices, the old mechanical toys have acquired retro-cool status among many affluent young collectors. A video camera was trained on her throughout her first visit, she was wired up to enough electrical measuring devices to light a small town, and obligingly she repeatedly passed out. Inventors of the tiniest machines have tapped various power sources for their devices: electricity, light, even DNA. The equipment includes special gripping devices for pens to help people write with a shaking wrist and also cheque signing guides. Synonyms implement, gadget, utensil, tool, appliance, piece of equipment, apparatus, piece of apparatus, piece of hardware, instrument, machine, mechanism, contrivance, contraption, invention, convenience, amenity, aid 1.1 A bomb or other explosive weapon. an incendiary device Example sentencesExamples Food is acquired by using an incendiary device, a hand grenade thrown into the water, producing a harvest of frogs. The 1949 Soviet explosion of a nuclear device reinforced the image of an external threat. Well it's a bomb, an explosive device, which has contained within it some radioactive material. Almost all were killed by improvised explosive devices and land mines. Roadside bombs or improvised explosive devices are inflicting a heavy toll on American troops. The truth is that weapons, even explosive or incendiary devices, still can get aboard a plane. Bucher considered stocking the ship with Thermite, an incendiary device that is very difficult to extinguish. A dirty bomb is an explosive device manufactured to spread harmful radioactive material over a wide range. The work of military and civilian bomb disposal experts also involves the handling of improvised explosive devices planted by terrorist groups. They've been firing into those improvised explosive devices, homemade bombs, with tanks, setting off huge explosions. Their priority is an end to air strikes, tank attacks, artillery barrages, sniping, car bombs and roadside explosive devices. Car bombs are a very significant part, car bombs, truck bombs, explosive devices. The vehicles will provide increased protection against grenades, improvised explosive devices, and small-arms fire. Iam brought several pounds of plastic explosives and detonation devices with him to sabotage the plant when the time came. Officers were yesterday searching several addresses but no weapons or any explosive devices were believed to have been found. ‘Ambulances have been used as a method of transporting militants, weapons, and explosive devices,’ he says. The dogs are not used to detect mines or booby traps - they are only trained to detect raw explosives such, as improvised explosive devices, and weapons and ammunition. An improvised explosive device, a pipe bomb, went off and yes, it has, I suppose, marred the reputation of the 1996 Olympics. Powerful states cannot fully escape bricolage terrorism, nail bombs, elementary nuclear devices, and homemade biological weapons. Over the past decade, we have learned a thing or two about how insurgents fight, their tactics and methods, and their weapons and explosive devices. Synonyms explosive, incendiary device, incendiary 2A plan, scheme, or trick with a particular aim. writing a public letter is a traditional device for signaling dissent Example sentencesExamples Oh, and Scully had a kid who could move things around with his mind, a plot device I haven't seen since Bewitched. Anarchists don't salute anyone and they wouldn't think to use it as a mnemonic device, but their method is the same. There are many devices and methods used to detect and quantify subsurface moisture. Some readers may be frustrated by the apparent lack of action and the leisurely pace of the plot but these devices are used intentionally by McEwan to convey his overall message. These told me that Lichtenstein's style defined his approach - he made it his own; it wasn't an affectation, a mere imitative device or clever trick. Instead, what we end up with is a parlor trick as plot device, a shockingly surreal way of keeping both husband and wife front and center in the storyline. Traditional constitutional devices had neutralized this democratic threat by ensuring that state power remained limited in size and scope. He asks her to go to Hong Kong with him but she rejects his offer using the device of a card trick and both leave with regret. Then, the methods and devices listed above will also work for removing cooking odors. The device also aims to counter the Chancellor's plans of introducing a tax on extra bags left outside wheelie bins. At times, he can't resist using pat plot devices to move action along, or coasting on a kind of breezy glibness. But while questions linger, so do doubts about the play's structure and plot devices. Mercury rules the animal spirit and is the author of subtlety, tricks, devices, and perjury. The traditional device is to terrify the population. Here, traditional Mediterranean devices have been collaged together to give a human heart to the formerly coldly functional institution. Doris and Nana appear out of nowhere and act as little more than clumsy devices to move the plot along and reveal the truth behind mysteries set up elsewhere. The board is adopting devices and methods to defeat the very purpose and object of the Bank. Daniel Brochu is somewhat wasted in the role of younger Vinci brother Francesco who is, again, less of a character in his own right than a device to move the plot along. Moore's method uses the axiomatic method as an instructional device. In the absence of other methods and devices, an Australian Bill of Rights may have been useful. Synonyms ploy, plan, cunning plan, tactic, move, means, stratagem, scheme, plot, trick, ruse, gambit, manoeuvre, machination, intrigue, contrivance, expedient, dodge, artifice, subterfuge, game, wile 2.1 A turn of phrase intended to produce a particular effect in speech or a literary work. a rhetorical device Example sentencesExamples Finally, in this poem as in many others in the same collection, Prévert employs the list as a rhetorical poetic device. In one sense, metaphor and symbol are literary devices while in another they represent actual involuntary psychic processes. Such an ambivalence would make for incoherence and would be hard to accept if we had here mere rhetorical devices and style recipes. The next step is a focus on specific rhetorical devices. Obviously, this a rhetorical device: a trope or some sort of shorthand for the linking of theory to practice. How can the highest aspirations of verse be linked to such rhetorical devices? These ten poems are not joined together by a narrative structure, or recurring rhetorical devices intended to produce a unified group of poems. In a work of literature Stewart's lies would constitute synecdoche, the rhetorical device in which a part stands for the whole. A book that uses literary language and other literary devices demands the attention of its readers. Included in this ‘style’ section are the traditional rhetorical devices and figures of speech. ‘The Divine Comedy’ is an epic poem brimming with information and eloquent literary devices. An inventive, engaging and meaningful use of the device of prosopopœia is a vibrant element of Prynne's poesis. The blatantness of its rhetorical devices and the perverseness of its address create discomfort for serious theorists. To that end, the employment of a first-person subjective voice is one of the most powerful literary devices that creative nonfiction writers can use. No memorized list of rhetorical devices will make an orator of a student who cannot grasp and creatively imitate the structure of a twenty-minute speech. Detailed studies confirmed that the same stylistic features, the same literary devices such as irony and double-meanings, and the same theological motifs are found in all parts of the text. Literary devices such as similes and personification are introduced. Yet isn't prosopopeia a rhetorical device that is found, as a matter of course, in all poetry? I was teaching a basic college writing course one summer at the local community college and I wanted to explain irony as a literary device. Angelo, on the other hand, has fifty-six lines before he meets with Isabella which contain few rhetorical devices, in keeping with forensic speech. 3A drawing or design. the decorative device on the invitations Example sentencesExamples The superior canines of the adult bear were extracted, probably for use as decorative devices. He had a taste for popular decorative devices, such as fruit, flowers, and brocades, which resulted in a curious and engaging blend of naivety and sophistication. 3.1 An emblematic or heraldic design. their shields bear the device of the Blazing Sun Example sentencesExamples In elite society, aristocratic funerary sculpture quickly replaced religious imagery with heraldic and symbolic devices. Heraldic devices shifted from the surcoat to the material covering the plates, although armour of the third period was often decorated by etching and painting. This shield is distinct in scale, materials, and technique from the other heraldic devices in this window. The significance of this unique sculpture is uncertain but a heraldic device of the ruling elite or an aniconic symbol of a protecting deity are possibilities. After the conquest, local weavers added heraldic devices to their own decorative motifs. He chose the Corbinian Bear as an heraldic device for his papal coat of arms. In the center of each diamond was a small shield with what I took to be a heraldic device painted on it. If a hallmark on a spoon is so worn you can't make it out, which side bears the heraldic device could give a clue to its date. He wore full plate-armor of unfinished black and his shield bore no device. The device is heraldic again, but it also protects the galleried space from excessive insolation. The Lord Lyon wrote to us a year ago saying that schools with heraldic devices should get in touch to check if they were allowed to use them. The heraldic devices are the least subtle aspect of the window. For all of that it's not a bad place to live, and that flying standard, with its strange old heraldic devices is still serving its purpose. Heraldic devices were by far the most popular motifs. Synonyms emblem, symbol, logo, badge, stamp, trademark, crest, insignia, coat of arms, escutcheon, seal, mark, figure, design, rune, logotype, logogram, monogram, hallmark, tag, motto, token, motif, colophon, ideogram 3.2archaic The design or look of something. works of strange device Example sentencesExamples Her cave was stored with scrolls of strange device. On its surface is a raised cross of beautiful device, by the side of whose shaft is a knight's sword. Phrases leave someone to their own devices Leave someone to do as they wish without supervision. Example sentencesExamples I think if we were to turn the clock back, we wouldn't have left them to their own devices, more or less unsupervised, for three years, while they blithered and had their internal political machinations and so on. Without an institution to cling to, they are left to their own devices in all respects. Members of the community say they have been left to their own devices by law enforcement officials for many years, and are struggling between an instinctive resentment of police and a burgeoning sense of the size of the problem. Stuck in the limbo of adolescence, too old to be tucked up in bed, too young to go down the pub, they are left to their own devices. Nature magically stimulates children's imaginations; their level of inventiveness and ingenuity seems to explode when they are left to their own devices. More than 300 Buddhists from Kent and Essex have been left to their own devices to worship at their own shrines at home or work. Bemused families said they were left to their own devices while Army personnel began controlled explosions. After flip-flopping, he finally kicked them out on October 3, leaving them to their own devices. Things did pick up in the second half, with the best scenes between Marie, Ben and Pete as they are left to their own devices on the ward. Brox realizes how difficult it will be for the schools the longer they are left to their own devices. Origin Middle English: from Old French devis, based on Latin divis- ‘divided’, from the verb dividere. The original sense was ‘desire or intention’, found now only in leave someone to their own devices (which has become associated with device (sense 2)). noun.1 phr.
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