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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

Borrowed from French véhicule, from Latin vehiculum (“a carriage, conveyance”), from vehere (“to carry”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?vi?.?.k?l/, /?v??.k?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?vi.?.k?l/, /?vi?(h)?.k?l/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?v??(?).k?l/
• Hyphenation: ve?hi?cle

Noun

vehicle (plural vehicles)

1. A conveyance; a device for carrying or transporting substances, objects or individuals.
2. A medium for expression of talent or views.

3. A liquid content (e.g. oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint.
4. (pharmaceuticals) The main excipient (such as an oil or gel) that conveys the active ingredient of a drug.

5. An entity to achieve an end.

6. (Buddhism) A mode or method of spiritual practice; a yana.
7. (Hinduism) An animal or (rarely) a plant on which a Hindu deity rides or sits

Synonyms

• (Hinduism): vahan

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:vehicle

Derived terms

Related terms

• vector
• vectorial
• vectorize

Translations

Further reading

• vehicle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vehicle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• vehicle at OneLook Dictionary Search

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin vehiculum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /v??i.kl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /b??i.kl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ve?i.kle/

Noun

vehicle m (plural vehicles)

1. vehicle

Related terms

• vehicular

Further reading

• “vehicle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.