Device
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- 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.
- A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
- His device is against Babylon, to destroy it. --Jer. li. 11.
- Their recent device of demanding benevolences. --Hallam.
- He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. --Job v. 12.
- A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
- 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.
See also
- Framing device
- Plot device
- Red herring (plot device)
- Iron maiden (torture device)
- Deathtrap (plot device)
- Rhetorical device
- Art as Device
- Ellipsis (narrative device)
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