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How to pronounce device
Say it like this: /dɪˈvaɪs/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does device mean?
nounAny piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
“Near-synonyms: equipment, tool, machine”
A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. 1602, Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. "This is our device,/ That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us."
“His device is against Babylon, to destroy it.”
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