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device

(noun)
1. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
  There are a number of household devices in a kitchen such as a dishwasher, a garbage disposal, or an electric can opener.
  - 1949. Geneva Convention on Road Traffic Chapter VI. Provisions Applicable to Cycles in International Traffic
    Every cycle shall be equipped with: ... (b) an audible warning device consisting of a bell ...
2. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
  - 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version)
    His device is against Babylon, to destroy it.
  - 1827 Hallam, Henry, The English Constitution, Harper
    Their recent device of demanding benevolences.
  - 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version)
    He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
3. A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
4. A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily because as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.
  - 1736. O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey. The Documentary History of the State of New York .
    The devices of these savages are the serpent, the Deer, and the Small Acorn.
5. An image used in whole or part as a trademark or service mark.
6. A spectacle or show.
7. Opinion; decision.
8. Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
  - 1824. Landor, Walter Savage "King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage" from Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, page 44
    Moreover I must have instruments of mine own device, weighty, and exceeding costly

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