device

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /dɪˈvaɪs/    美 /dɪˈvaɪs/|/dɪˈvɑɪs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
    — Near-synonyms: equipment, tool, machine
  2. A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
  3. 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. An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb Ireland
    — Inflammable material is planted in my head / It's a suspect device that's left 2000 dead
  5. A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device. rhetoric
    — 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. A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device. (heraldry) 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.; 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. rhetoric
  7. Power of devising; invention; contrivance. archaic
    — Moreover I must have instruments of mine own device, weighty, and exceeding costly
  8. An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
  9. An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
    — Prior to the issuance of the first stamps, letters accepted by postmasters for dispatch were marked "Paid" by means of pen and ink or hand stamps of various designs. … To facilitate the handling of mail matter, some postmasters provided special stamps or devices for use on letters as evidence of the prepayment of postage.
  10. 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. A spectacle or show. obsolete
    — It will be out of faſhion to weare ſwords, / Maſques, and devices welcome, I ſalute you […]
  12. Opinion; decision. obsolete

词形变化

devices plural

词汇关系

近义词
device
反义词
nondevice
上位词
artifact
下位词
aerial device ambient device belay device biodevice block device Brannock device charge-coupled device cloaking device cohesive device cryodevice doomsday device Duff's device e-book device e-device end-of-train device erasable programmable logic device framing device Handford device high-lift device human interface device iDevice infernal device input device interdevice intradevice intrauterine contraceptive device intrauterine device Jensen's device listening device literary device loop device macrodevice metadevice microdevice mobile device multidevice nanodevice null device output device overcurrent protective device Pedersen device peripheral device personal flotation device personal mobility device photodevice plant floor device plot device pneumatic device pneumonic device point-device pointing device pseudodevice radiological dispersal device reply device residual-current device smart device solid-state device spring-loaded camming device storage device subdevice time on device transferred electron device turtle excluder device unibody device Valsalva device Vertec device vehicle machine radio stereo television set phone cell phone computer monitor calculator printer plotter scanner microphone speaker camera touchpad trackball trackpad mouse furnace compressor coupler burner filter shower bomb detonator sequencer antenna laser regulator ventilator parachute wheel measuring device
衍生词
device addiction device driver device file deviceful deviceless device tree device under test nano-device time-on-device
相关词
tool instrument

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *wiðō
Latin *vidō
Latin dīvidō
Latin dīvīsus
Old French devisbor.
Middle English devis
English device
From Middle English devis, devise, devyce, devys, devyse, from Old French devis and devise, from Latin dīvīsus, past participle of dīvidō (“to divide”). Doublet of devise (noun).
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