Definition of devise in English:

devise

verb dɪˈvʌɪzdəˈvaɪz

[with object]

1Plan or invent (a complex procedure, system, or mechanism) by careful thought.
a training programme should be devised
a complicated game of his own devising
Example sentencesExamples
- Nor do you devise names for our real estate projects.
- The sheer scale of the plans devised by this team required the support of thousands of service personnel and civilians.
- When I was in my teens, my dad was working on devising his own system for blackjack.
- This information was also intended to help provide the basis for devising policies for making reparation.
- Third, it provides an opportunity for effective user involvement, as the patients assist in devising their own care plan.
- We have found the Report useful in devising the guidelines.
- Another system that devises methods to avoid errors is user-centered design.
- I proposed that an attempt be made to bring the two images closer and to devise mechanisms by which this rapprochement could be achieved.
- The Red Cross says it's devising new systems so that such fraud will be easier to detect in the future.
- Granby had to devise a system to help the identification of the individual face and associate the first person to recognise it as the winner immediately.
- We are also devising strategies to produce medicines from urine.
- If someone had set about devising a system to kill off the market in non-executive directors, they couldn't have trumped this effort.
- At the turn of the century, France produced most of the quality wine in the world, so it is no surprise that they were first to devise a system of protection.
- It surely can't be beyond the wit of 21st century man to devise swipecard systems that allow the identity of those receiving free meals to remain anonymous.
- To make things interesting, Damo suggested I devise a scoring system that awards points for certain achievements.
- Riley devised a system for making a piece of music based on 53 small melodic cells.
- We make laws for the comfort of foreign investors; but are we slipping in devising a system for our own people?
- The definition of business assets has changed since the system was devised.
- What is needed is for the industry to come together to devise a planned economy which benefits everyone, from owners to grooms, from racecourses to sponsors, from trainers to the bookmakers.
- How might we devise a system that offers students a second chance but that doesn't obfuscate reality or entice students to drop out?
Synonyms
conceive, think up, come up with, dream up, draw up, work out, form, formulate, concoct, design, frame, invent, coin, originate, compose, construct, fabricate, create, produce, put together, make up, develop, evolve
discover, hit on
hatch, cook up, contrive
2Law
Leave (something, especially real estate) to someone by the terms of a will.
Example sentencesExamples
- All persons of sound mind are competent to bequeath and devise real and personal estate, excepting infants and married women.
- All the residue of my estate, including real and personal property, I give, devise, and bequeath to Earlham College.
Synonyms
leave, leave in one's will, will, make over, pass on, hand on, hand down, cede, consign, commit, entrust, grant, transfer, convey

noun dɪˈvʌɪzdəˈvaɪz

Law

A clause in a will leaving something, especially real estate, to someone.
Example sentencesExamples
- The issue, however, is whether the language of the devise of the Somerset Estate can fairly be interpreted so as to include the rights under the s. 2 reverter.
- Transfers of real property by inheritance or devise are not subject to the real estate excise tax.

Derivatives

devisable

adjective dɪˈvʌɪzəb(ə)ldəˈvaɪzəb(ə)l

Other half interest is devisable by will or passes by succession under probate statutes.
Example sentencesExamples
- In modern times, they are generally alienable, devisable and inheritable.
- An unknown proportion of the bequests of land in the Bedfordshire wills may refer to property which was devisable by custom: the Bedfordshire testators were not scrupulous about recording the tenure of the property they bequeathed.
- Most states now allow even inter vivos transfers and nearly all treat them as devisable by will.
- It follows from this that Loring, at the time of his death, had no devisable estate in the land, and that the heirs of his devisee cannot maintain this suit.

devisee

noun dɪvʌɪˈziːdəˌvaɪˈzi

Law

A person to whom something, especially real estate, is left by the terms of a will.
the nephew was to be devisee of the uncle's property
Example sentencesExamples
- If passing by will, tenancy in common between devisees and survivor results.
- An applicant's failure to give information as required by this section is a breach of his duty to the heirs and devisees but does not affect the validity of the probate.
- Although this absence does not depict exemplary probate procedure, we must look to the purpose of the statute to determine whether appropriate notice is given to devisees and legatees.

deviser

noun dɪˈvʌɪzə

As here, wily conference devisers make sure that the speakers and their works are going to be interesting so that everyone has a good time even if the topic gets only a token airing.
Example sentencesExamples
- The ‘Northern Exposure’ project, according to its devisers, Box Architecture, was achieved ‘by the placement of three built forms creating six distinct spaces’ to manipulate light and provide functionality for a family home.
- The performers and devisers of the piece manipulate the glove puppets dressed in kabuki-style black costumes.
- Menander was a skilful constructor of plots, an imaginative deviser of situations, and a master of variety and suspense.
- In this Act ‘inventor’ in relation to an invention means the actual deviser of the invention and ‘joint inventor’ shall be construed accordingly.

devisor

noun dɪˈvʌɪzə

A person who leaves something, especially real estate, to someone by the terms of a will.
no liability attached to the lands for the debts of the devisor
Example sentencesExamples
- In this condition of the real estate of the granddaughter, the devisor made his will.
- A devise of property conveys all the estate of a devisor unless it appears by his will that he intended to convey a lesser estate.

Origin

Middle English: the verb from Old French deviser, from Latin divis- 'divided', from the verb dividere (this sense being reflected in the original English sense of the verb); the noun is a variant of device (in the early sense 'will, desire').

Rhymes

advise, apprise, apprize, arise, assize, capsize, chastise, comprise, demise, despise, downsize, excise, flies, guise, incise, low-rise, misprize, outsize, previse, prise, prize, remise, revise, rise, size, surmise, surprise, uprise, wise

Definition of devise in US English:

devise

verbdəˈvaɪzdəˈvīz

[with object]

1Plan or invent (a complex procedure, system, or mechanism) by careful thought.
a training program should be devised
a complicated game of his own devising
Example sentencesExamples
- We make laws for the comfort of foreign investors; but are we slipping in devising a system for our own people?
- How might we devise a system that offers students a second chance but that doesn't obfuscate reality or entice students to drop out?
- What is needed is for the industry to come together to devise a planned economy which benefits everyone, from owners to grooms, from racecourses to sponsors, from trainers to the bookmakers.
- Third, it provides an opportunity for effective user involvement, as the patients assist in devising their own care plan.
- Nor do you devise names for our real estate projects.
- We have found the Report useful in devising the guidelines.
- I proposed that an attempt be made to bring the two images closer and to devise mechanisms by which this rapprochement could be achieved.
- This information was also intended to help provide the basis for devising policies for making reparation.
- Granby had to devise a system to help the identification of the individual face and associate the first person to recognise it as the winner immediately.
- When I was in my teens, my dad was working on devising his own system for blackjack.
- The Red Cross says it's devising new systems so that such fraud will be easier to detect in the future.
- At the turn of the century, France produced most of the quality wine in the world, so it is no surprise that they were first to devise a system of protection.
- We are also devising strategies to produce medicines from urine.
- Riley devised a system for making a piece of music based on 53 small melodic cells.
- If someone had set about devising a system to kill off the market in non-executive directors, they couldn't have trumped this effort.
- To make things interesting, Damo suggested I devise a scoring system that awards points for certain achievements.
- The sheer scale of the plans devised by this team required the support of thousands of service personnel and civilians.
- It surely can't be beyond the wit of 21st century man to devise swipecard systems that allow the identity of those receiving free meals to remain anonymous.
- The definition of business assets has changed since the system was devised.
- Another system that devises methods to avoid errors is user-centered design.
Synonyms
conceive, think up, come up with, dream up, draw up, work out, form, formulate, concoct, design, frame, invent, coin, originate, compose, construct, fabricate, create, produce, put together, make up, develop, evolve
2Law
Leave (real estate) to someone by the terms of a will.
Example sentencesExamples
- All the residue of my estate, including real and personal property, I give, devise, and bequeath to Earlham College.
- All persons of sound mind are competent to bequeath and devise real and personal estate, excepting infants and married women.
Synonyms
leave, leave in one's will, will, make over, pass on, hand on, hand down, cede, consign, commit, entrust, grant, transfer, convey

noundəˈvaɪzdəˈvīz

Law

A clause in a will leaving something, especially real estate, to someone.
Example sentencesExamples
- The issue, however, is whether the language of the devise of the Somerset Estate can fairly be interpreted so as to include the rights under the s. 2 reverter.
- Transfers of real property by inheritance or devise are not subject to the real estate excise tax.

Origin

Middle English: the verb from Old French deviser, from Latin divis- ‘divided’, from the verb dividere (this sense being reflected in the original English sense of the verb); the noun is a variant of device (in the early sense ‘will, desire’).

单词	devise
释义	Definition of devise in English: devise verb dɪˈvʌɪzdəˈvaɪz [with object] 1Plan or invent (a complex procedure, system, or mechanism) by careful thought. a training programme should be devised a complicated game of his own devising Example sentencesExamples Nor do you devise names for our real estate projects. The sheer scale of the plans devised by this team required the support of thousands of service personnel and civilians. When I was in my teens, my dad was working on devising his own system for blackjack. This information was also intended to help provide the basis for devising policies for making reparation. Third, it provides an opportunity for effective user involvement, as the patients assist in devising their own care plan. We have found the Report useful in devising the guidelines. Another system that devises methods to avoid errors is user-centered design. I proposed that an attempt be made to bring the two images closer and to devise mechanisms by which this rapprochement could be achieved. The Red Cross says it's devising new systems so that such fraud will be easier to detect in the future. Granby had to devise a system to help the identification of the individual face and associate the first person to recognise it as the winner immediately. We are also devising strategies to produce medicines from urine. If someone had set about devising a system to kill off the market in non-executive directors, they couldn't have trumped this effort. At the turn of the century, France produced most of the quality wine in the world, so it is no surprise that they were first to devise a system of protection. It surely can't be beyond the wit of 21st century man to devise swipecard systems that allow the identity of those receiving free meals to remain anonymous. To make things interesting, Damo suggested I devise a scoring system that awards points for certain achievements. Riley devised a system for making a piece of music based on 53 small melodic cells. We make laws for the comfort of foreign investors; but are we slipping in devising a system for our own people? The definition of business assets has changed since the system was devised. What is needed is for the industry to come together to devise a planned economy which benefits everyone, from owners to grooms, from racecourses to sponsors, from trainers to the bookmakers. How might we devise a system that offers students a second chance but that doesn't obfuscate reality or entice students to drop out? Synonyms conceive, think up, come up with, dream up, draw up, work out, form, formulate, concoct, design, frame, invent, coin, originate, compose, construct, fabricate, create, produce, put together, make up, develop, evolve discover, hit on hatch, cook up, contrive 2Law Leave (something, especially real estate) to someone by the terms of a will. Example sentencesExamples All persons of sound mind are competent to bequeath and devise real and personal estate, excepting infants and married women. All the residue of my estate, including real and personal property, I give, devise, and bequeath to Earlham College. Synonyms leave, leave in one's will, will, make over, pass on, hand on, hand down, cede, consign, commit, entrust, grant, transfer, convey noun dɪˈvʌɪzdəˈvaɪz Law A clause in a will leaving something, especially real estate, to someone. Example sentencesExamples The issue, however, is whether the language of the devise of the Somerset Estate can fairly be interpreted so as to include the rights under the s. 2 reverter. Transfers of real property by inheritance or devise are not subject to the real estate excise tax. Derivatives devisable adjective dɪˈvʌɪzəb(ə)ldəˈvaɪzəb(ə)l Other half interest is devisable by will or passes by succession under probate statutes. Example sentencesExamples In modern times, they are generally alienable, devisable and inheritable. An unknown proportion of the bequests of land in the Bedfordshire wills may refer to property which was devisable by custom: the Bedfordshire testators were not scrupulous about recording the tenure of the property they bequeathed. Most states now allow even inter vivos transfers and nearly all treat them as devisable by will. It follows from this that Loring, at the time of his death, had no devisable estate in the land, and that the heirs of his devisee cannot maintain this suit. devisee noun dɪvʌɪˈziːdəˌvaɪˈzi Law A person to whom something, especially real estate, is left by the terms of a will. the nephew was to be devisee of the uncle's property Example sentencesExamples If passing by will, tenancy in common between devisees and survivor results. An applicant's failure to give information as required by this section is a breach of his duty to the heirs and devisees but does not affect the validity of the probate. Although this absence does not depict exemplary probate procedure, we must look to the purpose of the statute to determine whether appropriate notice is given to devisees and legatees. deviser noun dɪˈvʌɪzə As here, wily conference devisers make sure that the speakers and their works are going to be interesting so that everyone has a good time even if the topic gets only a token airing. Example sentencesExamples The ‘Northern Exposure’ project, according to its devisers, Box Architecture, was achieved ‘by the placement of three built forms creating six distinct spaces’ to manipulate light and provide functionality for a family home. The performers and devisers of the piece manipulate the glove puppets dressed in kabuki-style black costumes. Menander was a skilful constructor of plots, an imaginative deviser of situations, and a master of variety and suspense. In this Act ‘inventor’ in relation to an invention means the actual deviser of the invention and ‘joint inventor’ shall be construed accordingly. devisor noun dɪˈvʌɪzə A person who leaves something, especially real estate, to someone by the terms of a will. no liability attached to the lands for the debts of the devisor Example sentencesExamples In this condition of the real estate of the granddaughter, the devisor made his will. A devise of property conveys all the estate of a devisor unless it appears by his will that he intended to convey a lesser estate. Origin Middle English: the verb from Old French deviser, from Latin divis- 'divided', from the verb dividere (this sense being reflected in the original English sense of the verb); the noun is a variant of device (in the early sense 'will, desire'). Rhymes advise, apprise, apprize, arise, assize, capsize, chastise, comprise, demise, despise, downsize, excise, flies, guise, incise, low-rise, misprize, outsize, previse, prise, prize, remise, revise, rise, size, surmise, surprise, uprise, wise Definition of devise in US English: devise verbdəˈvaɪzdəˈvīz [with object] 1Plan or invent (a complex procedure, system, or mechanism) by careful thought. a training program should be devised a complicated game of his own devising Example sentencesExamples We make laws for the comfort of foreign investors; but are we slipping in devising a system for our own people? How might we devise a system that offers students a second chance but that doesn't obfuscate reality or entice students to drop out? What is needed is for the industry to come together to devise a planned economy which benefits everyone, from owners to grooms, from racecourses to sponsors, from trainers to the bookmakers. Third, it provides an opportunity for effective user involvement, as the patients assist in devising their own care plan. Nor do you devise names for our real estate projects. We have found the Report useful in devising the guidelines. I proposed that an attempt be made to bring the two images closer and to devise mechanisms by which this rapprochement could be achieved. This information was also intended to help provide the basis for devising policies for making reparation. Granby had to devise a system to help the identification of the individual face and associate the first person to recognise it as the winner immediately. When I was in my teens, my dad was working on devising his own system for blackjack. The Red Cross says it's devising new systems so that such fraud will be easier to detect in the future. At the turn of the century, France produced most of the quality wine in the world, so it is no surprise that they were first to devise a system of protection. We are also devising strategies to produce medicines from urine. Riley devised a system for making a piece of music based on 53 small melodic cells. If someone had set about devising a system to kill off the market in non-executive directors, they couldn't have trumped this effort. To make things interesting, Damo suggested I devise a scoring system that awards points for certain achievements. The sheer scale of the plans devised by this team required the support of thousands of service personnel and civilians. It surely can't be beyond the wit of 21st century man to devise swipecard systems that allow the identity of those receiving free meals to remain anonymous. The definition of business assets has changed since the system was devised. Another system that devises methods to avoid errors is user-centered design. Synonyms conceive, think up, come up with, dream up, draw up, work out, form, formulate, concoct, design, frame, invent, coin, originate, compose, construct, fabricate, create, produce, put together, make up, develop, evolve 2Law Leave (real estate) to someone by the terms of a will. Example sentencesExamples All the residue of my estate, including real and personal property, I give, devise, and bequeath to Earlham College. All persons of sound mind are competent to bequeath and devise real and personal estate, excepting infants and married women. Synonyms leave, leave in one's will, will, make over, pass on, hand on, hand down, cede, consign, commit, entrust, grant, transfer, convey noundəˈvaɪzdəˈvīz Law A clause in a will leaving something, especially real estate, to someone. Example sentencesExamples The issue, however, is whether the language of the devise of the Somerset Estate can fairly be interpreted so as to include the rights under the s. 2 reverter. Transfers of real property by inheritance or devise are not subject to the real estate excise tax. Origin Middle English: the verb from Old French deviser, from Latin divis- ‘divided’, from the verb dividere (this sense being reflected in the original English sense of the verb); the noun is a variant of device (in the early sense ‘will, desire’).
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