device
Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
Noun 4 meanings
Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
“Near-synonyms: equipment, tool, machine”
A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. 1602, Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. "This is our device,/ That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us."
An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
Etymology
From Middle English devis, devise, devyce, devys, devyse, from Old French devis and devise, from Latin dīvīsus, past participle of dīvidō (“to divide”). Doublet of devise (noun).
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DEVICE at a glance
DEVICE has 6 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (D 2 + E 1 + V 4 + I 1 + C 3 + E 1) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,096 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with device
All rhymesOne letter away
- DEVISE10
- DELICE9
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