different between device vs blazon

English

Etymology

From Old French devis, from Latin divisus, past participle of dividere (“to divide”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??va?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

device (plural devices)

1. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
   • 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 [...]
2. (computer hardware) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
3. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

   • His device is against Babylon, to destroy it.

   • He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

   • 1827 Hallam, Henry, The English Constitution, Harper

     Their recent device of demanding benevolences.
4. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
   • 1979 Stiff Little Fingers, "Suspect Device":

     Inflammable material is planted in my head / It's a suspect device that's left 2000 dead

   • 2014 September 3, Cliodhna Russell, The Journal "A viable device was found in Cavan today, it has now been made safe"

     THE ARMY BOMB Disposal Team rendered safe a viable device in Cavan this afternoon.

   • 2014 August 3, Louise Kelly & Conor Feehan "Suspect device found at shopping centre revealed as hoax" Irish Independent

     The army bomb squad carried out two controlled explosions on the device. It was later found that the suspect device was a hoax and not a viable explosive.

5. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
7. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily because as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.
   • 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.

8. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
   • 1824. Landor, Walter Savage "King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage" from Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, page 44

     Moreover I must have instruments of mine own device, weighty, and exceeding costly

   • 1976. The Eagles, "Hotel California"

     And she said,

     "We are all prisoners here,

     Of our own device"

9. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
10. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
    • 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.

11. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
12. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

Synonyms

• (piece of equipment): apparatus, appliance, equipment, gadget, design, contrivance
• (project or scheme): scheme, project, stratagem, artifice
• (obsolete, power of devising): invention, contrivance

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Slovene

Noun

device

1. genitive singular of devica
2. nominative plural of devica
3. accusative plural of devica

English

Etymology

Old French blason (“shield”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ble?z?n/
• Rhymes: -e?z?n

Noun

blazon (countable and uncountable, plural blazons)

1. (heraldry) A verbal or written description of a coat of arms.
   • 1894, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry:

     ...it should never be forgotten that the best blazon is that which is the most perspicuous

2. (heraldry) A formalized language for describing a coat of arms.
   • 1997, Gerard J. Brault, Early Blazon:

     We must banish, therefore, the persistent but wholly erroneous notion that the heralds invented many of the terms used in blazon and borrowed the rest from the everyday lexicon of terms...

3. (heraldry) A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms.
4. Ostentatious display, verbal or otherwise; publication; description; record.
   • 1709, Jeremy Collier, Essays upon several moral subjects

     Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company.

Translations

Verb

blazon (third-person singular simple present blazons, present participle blazoning, simple past and past participle blazoned)

1. (transitive) To describe a coat of arms.
   • 10 July 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian, No. 104

     the following coat of arms, which I will send you in the original language, not being herald enough to blazon it in English
2. To make widely or generally known, to proclaim.
   • c. 1611, William Shakespeare, w:Cymbeline, Act VI-III:

     O thou goddess/ thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st/ in these two princely boys.

   • 1774, John Trumbull, An Elegy on the Times

     There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow.

   • 18th century, William Cowper, Retirement

     In drawing pictures of forbidden joys,
     Retires to blazon his own worthless name

3. To display conspicuously or publicly.
4. To shine; to be conspicuous.
5. To deck; to embellish; to adorn.
   • 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary

     She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form.

Related terms

• blazonable
• device
• emblazon

Translations

Anagrams

• nazbol

Esperanto

Noun

blazon

1. accusative singular of blazo

Romanian

Etymology

From French blason

Noun

blazon n (plural blazoane)

1. blazon

Declension