Device
[dɪ'vaɪs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any clever maneuver; 'he would stoop to any device to win a point'; 'it was a great sales gimmick'; 'a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen'.
(noun.) an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose; 'the device is small enough to wear on your wrist'; 'a device intended to conserve water'.
(noun.) an emblematic design (especially in heraldry); 'he was recognized by the device on his shield'.
(noun.) any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery).
(noun.) something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect.
沙琳編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
(n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
(n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance.
(n.) Improperly, an heraldic bearing.
(n.) Anything fancifully conceived.
(n.) A spectacle or show.
(n.) Opinion; decision.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Contrivance, scheme, design, plan, project, expedient, shift, resort, resource.[2]. Artifice, stratagem, wile, ruse, manœuvre, trick, fraud, evasion.[3]. Emblem, symbol, type, sign.
本校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Artifice, expedient, design, plan, stratagem, project, symbol, emblem, show,invention, contrivance, cognizance
ANT:Fair-dealing, openness, miscontrivance, abortion, fortune, luck, hazard, hit,incognito
編輯:威尔玛
解釋/意思:
n. that which is devised or designed: contrivance: power of devising: genius: (her.) the emblem borne upon a shield: a picture of some kind with a motto illustrative of a man's life or character borne by an individual rather than by a family.—adj. Device′ful (Spens.) full of devices.
編輯:梅森
例句/造句/用法:
- While there are several distinct parts of this device, each having its individual function, they may be considered as a whole under the general term of the escapement. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- This was a very primitive device, requiring several minutes for the engine to make one stroke, but it was the beginning of the practical use of steam as a motive power. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- This automatic electrocuting device attracted so much attention, and got half a column in an evening paper, that the manager made me stop it. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- So paradoxical and inoperative did this seem at first that it was met with incredulity, and not until repeated demonstrations established the fact was it accepted as an operative device. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- By another ingenious device the cord was tied and cut, when the sewing was completed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- A device for sealing together the inside part and bulb of an incandescent lamp mechanically. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- A form of breech-loading cannon was introduced in the sixteenth century, but the advantageous use of this device is of late invention. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Without any mention of the various attempts to produce such a device, let us, as briefly as possible, describe the means used in most watches of American manufacture. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In addition, there was a special transmitting device in the shape of a musical reed, or buzzer. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Although twenty-one years of age, and of full growth, the phonograph is ever a wonderfully new and impressive device. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- This device not only worked with great rapidity, but was extremely sensitive, and would respond to currents too weak to affect the most delicate electromagnetic relay. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Later he took English patents on a machine for spinning flax, and on a new device for twisting hemp rope. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- It is this same shock-absorbing device which is used to catch the recoil on the immense siege guns used in modern warfare. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It was not long before there were three hundred subscribers; but the very success of this device brought competition and improvement. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It was a very ingenious device, and Hargreaves deserved the greatest credit for the skill with which he solved the problem. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- It had grammatical forms and verbal devices of some complexity. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The power and efficiency of a dynamo are increased by employing the devices previously mentioned in connection with the motor. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- There were other devices for diving or rising to the surface. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Here is an attempt to fit political devices to the actual powers of the voter. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Tucking, ruffling, braiding, cording, hemming, turning, plaiting, gaging, and other attachment devices are numerous. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The first of these devices was a proper use of print. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- As soon as he was settled at the Boston office he opened a small workshop, where he might try to complete some of the many devices he had in mind. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Ott, who has been Edison's designer of mechanical devices for over forty years. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It contained innumerable devices that he had worked out during the years he had been experimenting at his factory. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- As she turned the pages rich in dainty devices with very pardonable pride, her eye fell upon one verse that made her stop and think. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- She dismissed the messenger to his own devices, and rode away to her old home. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- A later development of these devices, by Verdin, known as the sphygmometrograph, is shown in Fig. 175. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In the world around us we see makeshift devices at work in all those branches, ill co-ordinated one with another and unsatisfactory in themselves. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A great variety of lamps was made of the platinum-iridium type, mostly with thermal devices to regulate the temperature of the burner and prevent its being melted by an excess of current. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Devices for extinguishing fire are almost coeval with that element itself. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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