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Device (noun)
Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
“There are a number of household devices in a kitchen such as a dishwasher, a garbage disposal, or an electric can opener.”
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Device (noun)
A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
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Device (noun)
A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
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Device (noun)
An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
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Device (noun)
A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
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Device (noun)
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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Device (noun)
Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
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Device (noun)
An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
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Device (noun)
An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
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Device (noun)
A spectacle or show.
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Device (noun)
Opinion; decision.
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Instrument (noun)
A device used to produce music.
“The violinist was a master of her instrument.”
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Instrument (noun)
A means or agency for achieving an effect.
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Instrument (noun)
A measuring or displaying device.
“ux|en|The instrument detected an increase in radioactivity.”
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Instrument (noun)
A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
“ux|en|The dentist set down his tray of instruments.”
“ux|en|The scientist recorded the temperature with a thermometer but wished he had a more accurate instrument.”
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Instrument (noun)
A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
“A bond indenture is the instrument that gives a bond its value.”
“Negotiable instruments are the foundation of the debt markets.”
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Instrument (noun)
A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
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Instrument (verb)
To apply measuring devices.
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Instrument (verb)
To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.
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Instrument (verb)
To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.
“a sonata instrumented for orchestra”
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Device (noun)
a thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment
“a measuring device”
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Device (noun)
a bomb or other explosive weapon
“an incendiary device”
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Device (noun)
a plan, method, or trick with a particular aim
“writing a letter to a newspaper is a traditional device for signalling dissent”
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Device (noun)
a form of words intended to produce a particular effect in speech or a literary work
“a rhetorical device”
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Device (noun)
a drawing or design
“the decorative device on the invitations”
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Device (noun)
an emblematic or heraldic design
“their shields bear the device of the Blazing Sun”
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Device (noun)
the design or look of something
“works of strange device”