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.”
Device (noun)
A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
Device (noun)
A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
Device (noun)
An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
Device (noun)
A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
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.
Device (noun)
Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
Device (noun)
An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
Device (noun)
An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
Device (noun)
A spectacle or show.
Device (noun)
Opinion; decision.
Instrument (noun)
A device used to produce music.
“The violinist was a master of her instrument.”
Instrument (noun)
A means or agency for achieving an effect.
Instrument (noun)
A measuring or displaying device.
“ux|en|The instrument detected an increase in radioactivity.”
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.”
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.”
Instrument (noun)
A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
Instrument (verb)
To apply measuring devices.
Instrument (verb)
To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.
Instrument (verb)
To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.
“a sonata instrumented for orchestra”
Device (noun)
a thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment
“a measuring device”
Device (noun)
a bomb or other explosive weapon
“an incendiary device”
Device (noun)
a plan, method, or trick with a particular aim
“writing a letter to a newspaper is a traditional device for signalling dissent”
Device (noun)
a form of words intended to produce a particular effect in speech or a literary work
“a rhetorical device”
Device (noun)
a drawing or design
“the decorative device on the invitations”
Device (noun)
an emblematic or heraldic design
“their shields bear the device of the Blazing Sun”
Device (noun)
the design or look of something
“works of strange device”