Device
noun
A thing made for a specific purpose, especially a machine or tool.
Evie needs to charge her electronic device.
noun
A plan or method for achieving a specific goal.
He used a clever device to get into the computer system.
noun
A design or logo that is a symbol for a company or organization.
Their device is a horse running free across a field.
noun
In literature, a device is a technique that a writer uses to produce a certain effect.
Her use of foreshadowing is a clever literary device.
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Academic
noun
A thing made for a specific purpose, especially a machine or tool.
Evie needs to charge her electronic device.
noun
A plan or method for achieving a specific goal.
He used a clever device to get into the computer system.
noun
A design or logo that is a symbol for a company or organization.
Their device is a horse running free across a field.
noun
In literature, a device is a technique that a writer uses to produce a certain effect.
Her use of foreshadowing is a clever literary device.
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Electronic Variety
Often refers to electronic gadgets like phones, laptops, and tablets.
Please turn off all electronic devices during the flight.
Pro Tip 2/2Specific Use
Emphasizes the specialized function the item has.
This device helps people with diabetes monitor their blood sugar levels.
Pro Tip 1/2Electronic Variety
Often refers to electronic gadgets like phones, laptops, and tablets.
Please turn off all electronic devices during the flight.
Pro Tip 2/2Specific Use
Emphasizes the specialized function the item has.
This device helps people with diabetes monitor their blood sugar levels.
Pro Tip 1/2Electronic Variety
Often refers to electronic gadgets like phones, laptops, and tablets.
Please turn off all electronic devices during the flight.
Pro Tip 2/2Specific Use
Emphasizes the specialized function the item has.
This device helps people with diabetes monitor their blood sugar levels.
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The language of lying —...
and we spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect them, from medieval torture devices to polygraphs, blood-pressure and breathing monitors, voice-stress analyzers, eye trackers, infrared brain scanners, and even the 400-pound electroencephalogram. But although such tools have worked under certain circumstances,
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Can you solve the frog...
shrinking the sample space and increasing the probability of getting a particular combination. The point is that information affects probability. And conditional probability isn't just the stuff of abstract mathematical games. It pops up in the real world, as well. Computers and other devices use conditional probability
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The benefits of good...
Sitting in an awkward position for a long time can promote poor posture, and so can using computers or mobile devices, which encourage you to look downward. Many studies suggest that, on average, posture is getting worse. So what does good posture look like? When you look at the spine from the front or the back,
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Why don't perpetual...
The imbalance would keep the wheel turning forever. Bhaskara's drawing was one of the earliest designs for a perpetual motion machine, a device that can do work indefinitely without any external energy source. Imagine a windmill that produced the breeze it needed to keep rotating.
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Are you a body with a...
If the body is deeply mapped in the brain, then by extending our sense of self to new wearable devices, our brains may eventually adapt to a restructured version with new sensory representations. Or perhaps uploading our consciousness into a computer might not even be possible
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Tiny Turtles Getting Big...
of actual shrimp that they can keep each time biologists at this facility are putting a lot of Hope in the success of the turtle excluder device but they've also developed other research efforts that have boosted the ridley population like captive breeding with every healthy
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Accessible fart machines...
adapting devices or creating solutions when what was available did it work it's something I've always embraced it's something I've carried over into my work as an occupational therapist the use of technology to help facilitate independence for individuals
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Earworms: Those songs...
If repetition is such a trigger, then perhaps we can blame our earworms on modern technology. The last hundred years have seen an incredible proliferation of devices that help you listen to the same thing again and again.
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Ants Ingenious Survival...
ready to lift off to start a new colony if the rat gets into trouble remarkably some of the pupae are set aside to act as flotation devices to help keep the raft afloat as the water level rises further the raft
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Avi Rubin: All your...
If you look closely at this device, it's got a switch for encryption or cleartext. Let me advance the slide, and now I'll go back. You see the difference? This is plain text. This is encrypted.
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The language of lying —...
and we spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect them, from medieval torture devices to polygraphs, blood-pressure and breathing monitors, voice-stress analyzers, eye trackers, infrared brain scanners, and even the 400-pound electroencephalogram. But although such tools have worked under certain circumstances,
Video examples
Can you solve the frog...
shrinking the sample space and increasing the probability of getting a particular combination. The point is that information affects probability. And conditional probability isn't just the stuff of abstract mathematical games. It pops up in the real world, as well. Computers and other devices use conditional probability
Video examples
The benefits of good...
Sitting in an awkward position for a long time can promote poor posture, and so can using computers or mobile devices, which encourage you to look downward. Many studies suggest that, on average, posture is getting worse. So what does good posture look like? When you look at the spine from the front or the back,
Video examples
Why don't perpetual...
The imbalance would keep the wheel turning forever. Bhaskara's drawing was one of the earliest designs for a perpetual motion machine, a device that can do work indefinitely without any external energy source. Imagine a windmill that produced the breeze it needed to keep rotating.
Video examples
Are you a body with a...
If the body is deeply mapped in the brain, then by extending our sense of self to new wearable devices, our brains may eventually adapt to a restructured version with new sensory representations. Or perhaps uploading our consciousness into a computer might not even be possible
Video examples
Tiny Turtles Getting Big...
of actual shrimp that they can keep each time biologists at this facility are putting a lot of Hope in the success of the turtle excluder device but they've also developed other research efforts that have boosted the ridley population like captive breeding with every healthy
Video examples
Accessible fart machines...
adapting devices or creating solutions when what was available did it work it's something I've always embraced it's something I've carried over into my work as an occupational therapist the use of technology to help facilitate independence for individuals
Video examples
Earworms: Those songs...
If repetition is such a trigger, then perhaps we can blame our earworms on modern technology. The last hundred years have seen an incredible proliferation of devices that help you listen to the same thing again and again.
Video examples
Ants Ingenious Survival...
ready to lift off to start a new colony if the rat gets into trouble remarkably some of the pupae are set aside to act as flotation devices to help keep the raft afloat as the water level rises further the raft
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Avi Rubin: All your...
If you look closely at this device, it's got a switch for encryption or cleartext. Let me advance the slide, and now I'll go back. You see the difference? This is plain text. This is encrypted.
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Jasper Fforde
British Novelist
In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.
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Natalia Dyer
American Actress
I do see a lot of roles that are, like, the girlfriend or the love interest or the girl next door. Maybe not totally well-rounded kinds of characters - women who are more of a plot device in a way.
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G. Willow Wilson
American Writer
Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.
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Jonathan Ive
English Designer
We all use something - you can't drill holes with your fingers. Whether it's a knife, a needle, or a machine, we all need the help of a device.
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Ryan Adams
American Musician
My entire life, I wake up, and at some point in the afternoon, I head toward some kind of musical recording device. My entire life.
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Gene Robinson
American Clergyman
Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.
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Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss Educator
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
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Nancy Gibbs
American Journalist
In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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Ken Auletta
American Journalist
Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.
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Steve Jobs
American Businessman
Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.
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Jasper Fforde
British Novelist
In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.
Quote examples
Natalia Dyer
American Actress
I do see a lot of roles that are, like, the girlfriend or the love interest or the girl next door. Maybe not totally well-rounded kinds of characters - women who are more of a plot device in a way.
Quote examples
G. Willow Wilson
American Writer
Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.
Quote examples
Jonathan Ive
English Designer
We all use something - you can't drill holes with your fingers. Whether it's a knife, a needle, or a machine, we all need the help of a device.
Quote examples
Ryan Adams
American Musician
My entire life, I wake up, and at some point in the afternoon, I head toward some kind of musical recording device. My entire life.
Quote examples
Gene Robinson
American Clergyman
Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.
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Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss Educator
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
Quote examples
Nancy Gibbs
American Journalist
In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
Quote examples
Ken Auletta
American Journalist
Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.
Quote examples
Steve Jobs
American Businessman
Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.
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