Synonyms:
device
Meaning: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water"
Synonyms:
device
Meaning: something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect
Synonyms:
device, gimmick, twist
Meaning: any clever maneuver; "he would stoop to any device to win a point"; "it was a great sales gimmick"; "a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen"
Usage examples
You get that device patented."
I perceived in this device the means of my deliverance.
GENERICALLY considered, a "battery" is a device which generates electric current.
It is a good device for exciting special attention, and it furnishes a pleasing variety.
What was there strange in the fact that Sir Percy should have chosen to use the device as a seal-ring?
It is not a malicious contrivance for making work hard; it is a gentle device to make hard labor light.
Spiggott and Fawcett's Home Plumbing Device Exposition which adorns the same number of the great review.
This device being a relay, its purpose is to repeat transmitted signals into a local circuit, as before explained.
Had not everybody about town recently made a point of affecting the device of that mysterious and heroic Scarlet Pimpernel?
This the lad accomplished by a simple but effective device which, when the balloonist saw it, caused him to compliment Tom.