device
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
device/dɪˈvʌɪs/
▶noun
- 1 a thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of equipment mechanical or electronic.
- 2 a plan, scheme, or trick.
■ a turn of phrase intended to produce a particular effect.
- 3 a drawing or design.
■ an emblematic or heraldic design.
- 4 archaic design or look: works of strange device.
– phrases
leave someone to their own devices leave someone to do as they wish without supervision.
leave someone to their own devices leave someone to do as they wish without supervision.
– origin ME (in sense ‘desire or intention’): from OFr. devis, based on L. divis-, dividere ‘to divide’.
'device' also found in these Oxford entries:
abseil
- acoustic
- acoustic shock
- adaptor
- airbag
- air brake
- airbrush
- air filter
- air freshener
- air pump
- alarm
- alarm clock
- alert
- alidade
- altimeter
- amplifier
- amusement
- angle grinder
- annunciator
- anode
- answering machine
- antithesis
- antithetical
- aposiopesis
- appliance
- applicator
- arbor
- Archimedean screw
- arrester
- ascender
- attenuator
- autocue
- auto-exposure
- autofocus
- automatic
- automatic pilot
- automaton
- backspace
- baffle
- balance
- barrier method
- bastard
- bearing
- becket
- beep
- bellows
- biochip
- biomaterial
- biosensor
- bipolar
