device

Etymology
From, , , , , from and , from , past participle of. .

Noun

 * 1) Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
 * 2) * 1949. Geneva Convention on Road Traffic Chapter VI. Provisions Applicable to Cycles in International Traffic
 * Every cycle shall be equipped with: [...] (b) an audible warning device consisting of a bell [...]
 * 1)  A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
 * 2) A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
 * 3)  An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
 * 4)  A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
 * 5)  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.
 * 6) * 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.
 * 1)  Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
 * 2)  An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
 * 3)  An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
 * 4) * 1943 United States Post Office Department. A Description of United States Postage Stamps / Issued by the Post Office Department from July 1, 1847, to April 1, 1945 [sic], USGPO, Washington, p1:
 * 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.
 * 1)  A spectacle or show.
 * 2)  Opinion; decision.
 * The devices of these savages are the serpent, the Deer, and the Small Acorn.
 * 1)  Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
 * 2)  An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
 * 3)  An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
 * 4) * 1943 United States Post Office Department. A Description of United States Postage Stamps / Issued by the Post Office Department from July 1, 1847, to April 1, 1945 [sic], USGPO, Washington, p1:
 * 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.
 * 1)  A spectacle or show.
 * 2)  Opinion; decision.
 * 1)  A spectacle or show.
 * 2)  Opinion; decision.
 * 1)  Opinion; decision.

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: أَدَاة, جِهَاز,
 * South Levantine Arabic: آلة
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Azerbaijani:, ,
 * Bashkir: ҡоролма
 * Belarusian: прыстасава́нне,, , апара́т
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan: dispositiu,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 裝置
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: tertibat, alet
 * Czech:
 * Danish: indretning, ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:, disponaĵo
 * Estonian: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, trangallo, trebello
 * Georgian: მექანიზმი, მოწყობილობა, აპარატი
 * German:, , , , , , ,
 * Alemannic German: Gräät
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μηχανή
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:, ꦥꦼꦂꦏꦏꦱ꧀,
 * Kazakh:, аппарат
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:, 디바이스
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ເຄື່ອງ,
 * Latin: māchina
 * Latvian: ierīce, aparāts
 * Lithuanian:, aparatas
 * Macedonian: направа
 * Malay:, peranti
 * Maori: pūrere
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: innretning,
 * Nynorsk: innretning
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, اَبْزارَک, ,
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:, , , (de construcție), ,  (componentă)
 * Russian:, , , , , ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: у̏ређа̄ј, апа̀ра̄т
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: zariadenie
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: rěd
 * Upper Sorbian: grat
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: pakasam
 * Tajik: абзорак, аппарат,, дастгоҳ, олат
 * Thai:, ,
 * Tibetan: འཁོར་ལོ
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: enjam
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur: قۇرۇلما
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * White Hmong: tshuab
 * Zhuang:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Danish: påfund, ,
 * Esperanto: intrigo
 * Finnish: ; ,
 * French:, , ,
 * German:, , , ,
 * Greek:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Maori: nuka
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: cleas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: на̀ум
 * Roman:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Danish:
 * Finnish: omatekoinen pommi


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: devise, valgsprog
 * Finnish:, tunnuskuvio ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Italian:, , , inscrizione
 * Macedonian: деви́за
 * Ottoman Turkish: علامت, نشان
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Russian: ,


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