different between gadget vs devise

English

Etymology

Unknown. First used in print by Robert Brown in 1886 (see quote in definition section). Might come from French gâchette or gagée. Compare Finnish koje (“instrument, device”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æd??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æd??t/
• Rhymes: -æd??t
• Hyphenation: gad?get

Noun

gadget (plural gadgets)

1. (obsolete) A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.
   • 1886, Robert Brown, Spunyard and Spindrift, A Sailor Boy's Log of a Voyage Out and Home in a China Tea-clipper:

     Then the names of all the other things on board a ship! I don't know half of them yet; even the sailors forget at times, and if the exact name of anything they want happens to slip from their memory, they call it a chicken-fixing, or a gadjet, or a timmey-noggy, or a wim-wom—just pro tem., you know.

2. Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.

3. (informal) Any consumer electronics product.
4. (computing) A sequence of machine code instructions crafted as part of an exploit that attempts to divert execution to a memory location chosen by the attacker.
   • Security > Red Hat > CVE Database > CVE-2019-1125

     A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts.

Synonyms

• contraption
• contrivance
• doohickey
• gizmo
• widget

Alternative forms

• gadjet

Derived terms

• gadgetbahn
• gadgety

Translations

Further reading

• gadget on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• dagget, tagged

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English gadget.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.d??t/

Noun

gadget m (plural gadgets)

1. gadget

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English gadget.

Noun

gadget m (invariable)

1. gadget (small device)

Romanian

Etymology

From English gadget.

Noun

gadget n (plural gadgeturi)

1. gadget

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English gadget.

Noun

gadget m (plural gadgets)

1. gadget

English

Etymology

From Middle English devisen, devysen, from Old French deviser, from Vulgar Latin devis?, from Latin d?vis?, frequentative of d?vid?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??va?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z
• Hyphenation: de?vise

Verb

devise (third-person singular simple present devises, present participle devising, simple past and past participle devised)

1. (transitive) To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).

   to devise an argument; to devise a machine, or a new system of writing

   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

     devising schemes to realize his ambitious views
2. (transitive) To leave (property) in a will.
3. (intransitive, archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
4. (transitive, archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
5. (obsolete) To imagine; to guess.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

Translations

Noun

devise (plural devises)

1. The act of leaving real property in a will.
2. Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

     Fines upon devises were still exacted.

3. The real property left in such a will.
4. Design, devising.
   • 2010, Carl Anderson, Fragments of a Scattered Brain ?ISBN, page 83

     I don't know how I got to be so sour on life, but I'm constantly in solitary confinement of my own devise, […]

See also

• device
• devising

Anagrams

• sieved, viséed

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?s?

Noun

devise c (singular definite devisen, plural indefinite deviser)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Declension

Further reading

• “devise” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From deviser. The financial sense is a semantic loan from German Devise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.viz/

Noun

devise f (plural devises)

1. (heraldry) motto
2. (finance) assets in foreign currency
3. (finance, by extension) currency

Verb

devise

1. inflection of deviser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “devise” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• dévies, évides, évidés, vidées

Spanish

Verb

devise

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of devisar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of devisar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of devisar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of devisar.