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Definition of Device |
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Device
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. Power of devising; invention; contrivance. 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. Improperly, an heraldic bearing. Anything fancifully conceived. A spectacle or show. Opinion; decision. Related Definitions: Adopting, Ambition, An, Anything, Apart, Artifice, Bearing, By, Cognizance, Conceived, Consisting, Contrivance, Deceive, Decision, Denote, Design, Desire, Devised, Devising, Emblematic, Formed, From, Generally, Heraldic, Historical, Improperly, Invention, Is, It, More, Motto, Of, Often, One, Opinion, Or, Person, Power, Project, Scheme, See, Show, Situation, Spectacle, Stratagem, That, The, To, Used, Which, With |
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Device Quotations
All for one, one for all, that is our device. Alexandre Dumas Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. Margaret Mead |
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Device Translations
device in Afrikaans is toestel device in Danish is apparat device in Dutch is hulpmiddelen, inrichting, apparaat device in Finnish is koje device in German is Laufwerk, Einheit device in Italian is meccanismo, apparecchio, elemento device in Latin is fabrica device in Norwegian is innretning device in Portuguese is aparelho, dispositivo device in Spanish is utensilo, aparato |
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