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device
  1. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
  2. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
  3. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
  4. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
  5. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
  6. (heraldry) 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.
  7. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
  8. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
  9. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
  10. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
  11. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.
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  13. Examples:
    1. “The other piece of equipment is a device called a hydrometer, which measures alcoholic strength.”
      “On this occasion, there was undoubtedly physical fear of a very acute kind, and the vow appears as a desperate device to save his life.”
      “Daniel Brochu is somewhat wasted in the role of younger Vinci brother Francesco who is, again, less of a character in his own right than a device to move the plot along.”
devise
deviousness
  1. The characteristic of being devious; sneakiness; underhandedness.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “There is apt humor here and no less apt insight into the deviousness of the psyche.”
      “She seemed so innocent, her previous deviousness and cunning gone in a flash.”
      “You can always get what you want by bribery and corruption, dishonesty and deviousness.”
devising
devisee
  1. (law) The person or entity to whom property is devised in a will.
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    1. “The personal representative may similarly serve a copy of the notice on any devisee under another will or heirs or others who claim or may claim an interest in the estate.”
      “Any person may be a devisee or legatee including married women, minors and corporations.”
      “It follows from this that Loring, at the time of his death, had no devisable estate in the land, and that the heirs of his devisee cannot maintain this suit.”
deviser
  1. A person who devises something; a planner.
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    1. “A great churchman, Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims, was the deviser of the new arrangement.”
      “Menander was a skilful constructor of plots, an imaginative deviser of situations, and a master of variety and suspense.”
      “Lethem believes any deviser of nonfictions is ipso facto a fictional creation.”
devisal
  1. An act of devising.
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    1. “But today we live in a time that most people do tricks and deception, and assume them as an agility and ignorant people call them devisal ones.”
deviousnesses
devisings
devisees
  1. plural of devisee
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A devisor may clearly devise or limit the possession of chattels, making them inalienable by devisees in succession.”
      “Expenditures not essential to the proper settlement of the estate but incurred for the individual benefit of the heirs, legatees, or devisees may not be taken as deductions.”
      “In this case, no claims were filed by creditors, and the residuary beneficiary consented to the payments to the specific devisees, so there was no harm.”
devisers
devisals
devices
  1. plural of device
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    1. “If left to his own devices, he would probably live on pizza and cheeseburgers alone.”
      “To move human cargo across this border, smugglers now use cell phones, walkie-talkies, even GPS devices.”
      “In addition, many mobile devices in the North American market are not yet equipped with the technology to utilize the QR code.”
devises
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