devices
- 1Plural of device.
Modern phones and tablets are among the most widely used personal devices.
The surgeon relied on several small devices to monitor the patient's heart.
Note
A regular plural that carries every meaning of the singular, not only the gadgets. Writers speak of rhetorical devices, and the word also names the personal mottoes and emblems that set one bearer apart from others. In Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor (1602), a device is a scheme. In Ireland, devices can also mean improvised bombs, so the context decides which meaning you hear.
Alliteration and repetition are devices the speaker uses to stir the crowd.
Each knight's banner bore one of the personal devices recorded in the roll.
devices is a form of device
device, noun: A piece of equipment, especially a mechanical or electrical one, built to do a particular job. Full entry
- Forms
- devicedevices plural
- Spelling
- device → devices: add -s
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