different between gadget vs thingumajig
gadget
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)
- (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.
- 1886, Robert Brown, Spunyard and Spindrift, A Sailor Boy's Log of a Voyage Out and Home in a China Tea-clipper:
- Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.
- (informal) Any consumer electronics product.
- (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.
- Security > Red Hat > CVE Database > CVE-2019-1125
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)
- gadget
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English gadget.
Noun
gadget m (invariable)
- gadget (small device)
Romanian
Etymology
From English gadget.
Noun
gadget n (plural gadgeturi)
- gadget
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English gadget.
Noun
gadget m (plural gadgets)
- gadget
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thingumajig
English
Noun
thingumajig (plural thingumajigs)
- Alternative form of thingamajig
thingumajig From the web:
- what does thingamajig mean
- what does thingamajig
- meaning of thingamajig
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