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See also:děvicě

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Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European*dwi-
Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European*dwís
Latindis-
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Proto-Indo-European*dwi-
Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European*h₁weydʰh₁-der.
Proto-Italic*wiðō
Latin*vidō
Old Frenchdevisbor.
Middle Englishdevis
Englishdevice

    FromMiddle Englishdevis,devise,devyce,devys,devyse, fromOld Frenchdevis anddevise,[1] fromLatindīvīsus, past participle ofdīvidō(“to divide”).Doublet ofdevise(noun).

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    Noun

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    device (pluraldevices)

    1. Any piece ofequipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
      • 1949.Geneva Convention on Road TrafficChapter VI. Provisions Applicable to Cycles in International Traffic
        Every cycle shall be equipped with: [...] (b) an audible warningdevice consisting of a bell [...]
      • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, inThe Economist‎[1], volume407, number8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
        An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Suchdevices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
    2. (computerhardware) Aperipheral device; an item ofhardware.
    3. Aproject orscheme, often designed to deceive; astratagem; anartifice. 1602, Shakespeare,The Merry Wives of Windsor. "This is our device,/ That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us."
      • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Jeremiah51:11:
        Hisdevice is against Babylon, to destroy it.
      • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Job5:12:
        He disappointeth thedevices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
      • 1827, Henry Hallam,The English Constitution, Harper:
        Their recentdevice of demanding benevolences.
      • 1904,Jack London, chapter30, inThe Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.:Grosset & Dunlap,→OCLC:
        So next day the hunting began. I did not know how to shoot, but I proceeded to learn. And when I had expended some thirty shells for three seals, I decided that the ammunition would be exhausted before I acquired the necessary knowledge. I had used eight shells for lighting fires before I hit upon thedevice of banking the embers with wet moss, and there remained not over a hundred shells in the box.
      • 1913 June–December,Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Plot That Failed”, inThe Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.:A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915,→OCLC,page58:
        FOR a month Tarzan was a regular and very welcome devotee at the shrine of the beautiful Countess de Coude.[…] More often Olga founddevices that would give her an hour of Tarzan alone.
      • 2012 March,Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, inAmerican Scientist‎[2], volume100, number 2, archived fromthe original on19 February 2013, page106:
        Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorialdevices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
    4. (Ireland) Animprovised explosive device, home-madebomb
      • 1979, Stiff Little Fingers,SuspectDevice:
        Inflammable material is planted in my head / It's a suspectdevice that's left 2000 dead
      • 2014 September 3, Cliodhna Russell, “A viabledevice was found in Cavan today, it has now been made safe”, inThe Journal:
        THE ARMY BOMB Disposal Team rendered safe a viabledevice in Cavan this afternoon.
      • 2014 August 3, Louise Kelly, Conor Feehan, “Suspectdevice found at shopping centre revealed as hoax”, inIrish Independent:
        The army bomb squad carried out two controlled explosions on thedevice. It was later found that the suspectdevice was a hoax and not a viable explosive.
    5. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; arhetoricaldevice.
    6. (heraldry) Amotto,emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from abadge orcognizance primarily as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.
    7. (archaic) Power ofdevising; invention; contrivance.
      • 1824, Walter Savage Landor, “King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage”, inImaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, page44:
        Moreover I must have instruments of mine owndevice, weighty, and exceeding costly
      • 1976, The Eagles,Hotel California:
        And she said,
        "We are all prisoners here,
        Of our owndevice"
      • 1986 February 1, James E. Lewis, “Love In The Worst Of Times”, inGay Community News, volume13, number28, page 5:
        I want to (I must) tell a story of a revelation in my life. His name is Vernon. We have known each other for 17 years, yet we are presently separated through nodevice of our own making.
    8. (law) An image used in whole or in part as atrademark or service mark.
    9. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
      • 1943 United States Post Office Department.A Description of United States Postage Stamps / Issued by the Post Office Department from July 1, 1847, to April 1, 1945 [sic], USGPO, Washington, p1:
        Prior to the issuance of the first stamps, letters accepted by postmasters for dispatch were marked "Paid" by means of pen and ink or hand stamps of various designs. [...] To facilitate the handling of mail matter, some postmasters provided special stamps ordevices for use on letters as evidence of the prepayment of postage.
    10. (crosswording) Any specific class ofwordplay element in acryptic crossword.
      • 200106, Fraser Simpson,101 Cryptic Crosswords: From the New Yorker, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.,→ISBN, page 6:
        These eightdevices, and combinations thereof, account for nearly every kind of wordplay you will encounter in cryptic crosswords.
      • 2013 November 7, Alan Connor,Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword, Penguin UK,→ISBN:
        Discovering these variants is much of the fun. All thedevices can be combined and twisted to produce surface readings in each clue which point you in the wrong direction.
      • 2020 March 30, Denise Sutherland,Solving Cryptic Crosswords For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN, page48:
        As with all varieties of cryptic clues, the containerdevice can be used in conjunction with otherdevices, especially in more complex cryptic crosswords.
    11. (obsolete) A spectacle orshow.
    12. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

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    Translations

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    piece of equipment
    computing—seeperipheral device
    project, stratagem, artifice
    improvised explosive device
    rhetoric: device—seerhetorical device
    heraldry: personal motto or emblem
    archaic: power of devising; invention; contrivance
    law: image used in whole or part as a trademark or service mark
    printing: image denoting authority or provenience
    obsolete: spectacle or show
    obsolete: opinion; decision

    References

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    1. ^“dēvīs,n.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.

    Slovene

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    Noun

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    device

    1. inflection ofdevica:
      1. genitivesingular
      2. nominative/accusativeplural
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