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device
noun as in instrument, tool
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noun as in ploy, scheme, maneuver
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I still do find it a tremendously useful device to invent a character and have the character sing the song.
Employees strap a device to their heads and power a helicopter drone with their minds.
The extending out of one syllable is a great songwriting device.
They double down on the plot device of a lone visionary opposed by conventional hierarchies.
So filmmakers usually resort to a plot device to compensate for this absence.
This takes at first the crude device of a couple of vertical lines attached to the head (see Fig. 4).
That was not the device of a woman who loved—it savored rather of the cool state-craft of a Lucrezia Borgia.
This would be a device for helping him to revive this hitherto unrecallable name.
By a device resorted to in each separate case to help make a more vivid First Impression.
It is the fashion there to regard it merely as a device to help an incompetent organist.
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On this page you'll find 183 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to device, such as: accessory, apparatus, appliance, equipment, gadget, and gear.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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