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📖 Определения и значения для слова device

📒 an object or a piece of equipment that has been designed to do a particular job

  • a tracking/recording/listening device
  • The new devices will be installed at US airports.
  • electrical labour-saving devices around the home

📒 a piece of computer equipment, especially a small one such as a smartphone

  • You can store thousands of photos on your device.
  • a portable/wireless device
  • The waiter takes orders on a hand-held device.

📒 a bomb or weapon that will explode

  • A powerful device exploded outside the station.
  • It was the world's first atomic device.
  • Two bombers detonated their devices in the busy shopping centre.

📒 a method of doing something that produces a particular result or effect

  • Targeted advertising on social media is very successful as a marketing device.
  • We use a range of devices for testing children's numerical ability.
  • This was originally intended as a device for making sure taxes were paid on time.

📒 a plan or trick that is used to get something that somebody wants

  • The report was a device used to hide rather than reveal problems.
  • This device can be seen as somewhat dishonest.

📒 a form of words that is intended to produce a particular effect in speech or writing

  • a rhetorical device
  • Metaphor and symbol are literary devices.

📒 to leave somebody alone to do as they wish, and not tell them what to do

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