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deviceful

/dih-vahys/US // dɪˈvaɪs //UK // (dɪˈvaɪs) //

狡猾的,狡猾的人,狡猾,有创意的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a thing made for a particular purpose; an invention or contrivance, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
    • : a plan or scheme for effecting a purpose.
    • : a crafty scheme; trick.
    • : a particular word pattern, figure of speech, combination of word sounds, etc., used in a literary work to evoke a desired effect or arouse a desired reaction in the reader: rhetorical devices.
    • : a mobile device: Students may not bring devices into the secure testing center.Don't leave your devices in a hot car.
    • : something elaborately or fancifully designed.
    • : a representation or design used as a heraldic charge or as an emblem, badge, trademark, or the like.
    • : a motto.
    • : Archaic. devising; invention.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as iningenious
as ininventive
as increative

Examples

  • Rothamer and colleagues tested devices called mask fitters or mask braces — rubber or plastic frames that fit over the mask molding it more closely to the face.

  • Today he knows that magic was simply the diversity of a forest left to its own devices.

  • That’s not surprising, after all, 85% of all internet users in the United States watched online video content monthly on any of their devices.

  • In others, we get impatient and set off explosive charges or use a powerful sound-making device.

  • New platforms will include slip-resistant tiles, LED lighting, larger digital displays with arrival information and service alerts, stainless-steel shelters, improved surveillance systems and charging ports for riders’ digital devices.

  • 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.