device

1. (computer hardware) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.

2. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bombExamples: "Inflammable material is planted in my head / It's a suspect device that's left 2000 dead"; "THE ARMY BOMB Disposal Team rendered safe a viable device in Cavan this afternoon."; "The army bomb squad carried out two controlled explosions on the device. It was later found that the suspect device was a hoax and not a viable explosive."Ireland

3. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.Examples: "1736. O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey. The Documentary History of the State of New York Chapter I, Article III: Enumeration of the Indian Tribes. The devices of these savages are the serpent, the Deer, and the Small Acorn."rhetoric

4. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.rhetoric

5. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.Examples: "Moreover I must have instruments of mine own device, weighty, and exceeding costly"; "And she said, "We are all prisoners here, Of our own device""; "I want to (I must) tell a story of a revelation in my life. His name is Vernon. We have known each other for 17 years, yet we are presently separated through no device of our own making."Synonyms: invention, contrivancearchaic

6. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.