different between product vs gadget

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?ductus, perfect participle of pr?d?c?, first attested in English in the mathematics sense.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??d.?kt/, /?p??d.?kt/
• (General American) enPR: pr?d??kt, IPA^(key): /?p??d.?kt/, /?p??d.?kt/
• Hyphenation: prod?uct
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

product (countable and uncountable, plural products)

1. (countable, uncountable) A commodity offered for sale.

   Synonyms: merchandise, wares, goods

2. (cosmetics, uncountable) Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.

3. Anything that is produced; a result.
   1. The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.

      Synonyms: endwork, production, output, creation, yield

   2. A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.

   3. (chemistry) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.

   5. (arithmetic) A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.

   6. (mathematics) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of types or a categorical product.
   7. Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.
4. (US, slang) Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "product": excellent, good, great, inferior, crappy, broken, defective, cheap, expensive, reliable, safe, dangerous, useful, valuable, useless, domestic, national, agricultural, industrial, financial.

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Translations

See also

• addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) + (summand) = (sum, total)
• subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference)
• multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product)
• division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend

Verb

product (third-person singular simple present products, present participle producting, simple past and past participle producted)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To produce.
   • 1651, The Touchstone of Common Assurances (page 498)

     The probate of a Testament is the producting and insinuating of it before the Ecclesiastical Judge […]

Dutch

Alternative forms

• (before 1996) produkt

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?ductum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pro??d?kt/
• Hyphenation: pro?duct
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

product n (plural producten, diminutive productje n)

1. product

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: produk
• ? Indonesian: produk

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