devices
US/dəˈvaɪsɪz/
devices is the plural of device.
Meaning of device
Noun
device (plural devices)
- 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."
- His device is against Babylon, to destroy it.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 51:11
- An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
- Inflammable material is planted in my head / It's a suspect device that's left 2000 dead1979, Stiff Little Fingers, Suspect Device
- A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
- 1736. O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey. The Documentary History of the State of New York Chapter I, Article III: Enumeration of the Indian Tribes.
The devices of these savages are the serpent, the Deer, and the Small Acorn.
- 1736. O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey. The Documentary History of the State of New York Chapter I, Article III: Enumeration of the Indian Tribes.
- A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.
Words formed from devices
- left to one's own devices
Phrases with devices
- loop devices
- null devices
- plot devices
- belay devices
- block devices
- input devices
- reply devices
- smart devices
- aerial devices
- mobile devices
- output devices
- ambient devices
37 more phrasesFewer phrases
- framing devices
- storage devices
- Brannock Devices
- cloaking devices
- cohesive devices
- doomsday devices
- Handford devices
- infernal devices
- literary devices
- Pedersen devices
- pointing devices
- Valsalva devices
- high-lift devices
- listening devices
- pneumatic devices
- pneumonic devices
- devices under test
- peripheral devices
- rhetorical devices
- solid-state devices
- intrauterine devices
- charge-coupled devices
- human interface devices
- turtle excluder devices
- personal mobility devices
- personal flotation devices
- improvised explosive devices
- Kendrick Extrication Devices
- transferred electron devices
- spring-loaded camming devices
- overcurrent protective devices
- radiological dispersal devices
- left someone to their own devices
- leave someone to their own devices
- erasable programmable logic devices
- leaves someone to their own devices
- leaving someone to their own devices
Words that rhyme with devices
Questions about devices
- What is devices the plural of?
- Devices is the plural of device.
- How do you pronounce devices?
- Devices is pronounced /dəˈvaɪsɪz/ (US).
Words near devices in the dictionary
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