Definition of Device

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Device

That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

Power of devising; invention; contrivance.

An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance.

Improperly, an heraldic bearing.

Anything fancifully conceived.

A spectacle or show.

Opinion; decision.

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Device Quotations

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
Margaret Mead

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.
Jack Nicholson

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
Calvin Coolidge

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
Fred Allen

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. Mencken

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
Michael Moore

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Bertrand Russell

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.
Dee Hock

Device Translations

device in Afrikaans is toestel
device in Danish is apparat
device in Dutch is hulpmiddelen, inrichting, apparaat
device in Finnish is koje
device in German is Laufwerk, Einheit
device in Italian is meccanismo, apparecchio, elemento
device in Latin is fabrica
device in Norwegian is innretning
device in Portuguese is aparelho, dispositivo
device in Spanish is utensilo, aparato

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