Gadget vs. Device
Gadget and Device Definitions
Gadget
A small specialized mechanical or electronic device; a contrivance.
Device
An object designed and manufactured to perform one or more functions.
Gadget
(obsolete) A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.
Device
A literary contrivance, such as parallelism or personification, used to achieve a particular effect.
Gadget
Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.
He bought a neat new gadget for shredding potatoes.
That's quite a lot of gadgets you have collected. Do you use any of them?
Device
A decorative design, figure, or pattern, as one used in embroidery.
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Gadget
(informal) Any consumer electronics product.
Device
A graphic symbol or motto, especially in heraldry.
Gadget
(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.
Device
A plan or scheme for accomplishing something
“Now Lydgate might have called at the warehouse, or might have written a message on a leaf of his pocket-book and left it at the door. Yet these simple devices apparently did not occur to him” (George Eliot).
Gadget
(computer science) A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem. Used in constructing reductions.
We reduce an instance of 3-SAT to an instance of bird-flock-optimization, using a gadget that converts each conjunctive Boolean clause to a group of birds.
Device
Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
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Gadget
A device that is very useful for a particular job
Device
(computer hardware) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
Device
A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
Device
(Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
Device
(rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
Device
(heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.
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Device
(archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
Device
(legal) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
Device
(printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
Device
(obsolete) A spectacle or show.
Device
(obsolete) Opinion; decision.
Device
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.
His device in against Babylon, to destroy it.
Their recent device of demanding benevolences.
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty.
Device
Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
I must have instruments of my own device.
Device
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.
Knights-errant used to distinguish themselves by devices on their shields.
A banner with this strange device -Excelsior.
Device
Anything fancifully conceived.
Device
A spectacle or show.
Device
Opinion; decision.
Device
Any artifactual object designed to perform an action or process, with or without an operator in attendance.
Device
An instrumentality invented for a particular purpose;
The device is small enough to wear on your wrist
A device intended to conserve water
Device
Something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect
Device
Any clever (deceptive) maneuver;
He would stoop to any device to win a point
Device
Any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery)
Device
An emblematic design (especially in heraldry);
He was recognized by the device on his shield
