device
• noun 1 a thing made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electronic contrivance. 2 a plan, scheme, or trick. 3 a drawing or design. — PHRASES leave someone to their own devices leave someone to do as they wish. — ORIGIN originally in sense desire or intention : from Old French devis, from Latin dividere ‘to divide’.
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