Device vs. Devise

Devicenoun

Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.

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(computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.

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A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

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(Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb

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(rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.

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(heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily because as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.

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(archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.

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(legal) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.

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(printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.

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(obsolete) A spectacle or show.

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(obsolete) Opinion; decision.

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That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

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Power of devising; invention; contrivance.

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An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance.

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Anything fancifully conceived.

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A spectacle or show.

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Opinion; decision.

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any artifactual object designed to perform an action or process, with or without an operator in attendance.

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an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose;

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something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect

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any clever (deceptive) maneuver;

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any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery)

Devicenoun

an emblematic design (especially in heraldry);

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a thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment

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a bomb or other explosive weapon

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a plan, method, or trick with a particular aim

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a form of words intended to produce a particular effect in speech or a literary work

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a drawing or design

Devicenoun

an emblematic or heraldic design

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the design or look of something

Deviseverb

(transitive) To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).

Deviseverb

(transitive) To leave (property) in a will.

Deviseverb

To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.

Deviseverb

To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.

Deviseverb

(obsolete) To imagine; to guess.

Devisenoun

The act of leaving real property in a will.

Devisenoun

Such a will, or a clause in such a will.

Devisenoun

The real property left in such a will.

Devisenoun

Design, devising.

Deviseverb

To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument.

Deviseverb

To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.

Deviseverb

To say; to relate; to describe.

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To imagine; to guess.

Deviseverb

To give by will; - used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.

Deviseverb

To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.

Devisenoun

The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; - sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.

Devisenoun

A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property.

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Property devised, or given by will.

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Device. See Device.

Devisenoun

a will disposing of real property

Devisenoun

(law) a gift of real property by will

Deviseverb

come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort;

Deviseverb

arrange by systematic planning and united effort;

Deviseverb

give by will, especially real property