device

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.

   “Near-synonyms: equipment, tool, machine”

2. isim A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
3. isim 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.”

4. isim An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb

   “Inflammable material is planted in my head / It's a suspect device that's left 2000 dead”

5. isim 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.”

6. isim 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.
7. isim Power of devising; invention; contrivance.

   “Moreover I must have instruments of mine own device, weighty, and exceeding costly”

8. isim An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
9. isim An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
10. isim Any specific class of wordplay element in a cryptic crossword.

    “These eight devices, and combinations thereof, account for nearly every kind of wordplay you will encounter in cryptic crosswords.”

11. isim A spectacle or show.

    “It will be out of faſhion to weare ſwords, / Maſques, and devices welcome, I ſalute you […]”

12. isim Opinion; decision.