deviceful
狡猾的,狡猾的人,狡猾,有创意的
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Definitions
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- : a thing made for a particular purpose; an invention or contrivance, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
- : a plan or scheme for effecting a purpose.
- : a crafty scheme; trick.
- : a particular word pattern, figure of speech, combination of word sounds, etc., used in a literary work to evoke a desired effect or arouse a desired reaction in the reader: rhetorical devices.
- : a mobile device: Students may not bring devices into the secure testing center.Don't leave your devices in a hot car.
- : something elaborately or fancifully designed.
- : a representation or design used as a heraldic charge or as an emblem, badge, trademark, or the like.
- : a motto.
- : Archaic. devising; invention.
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Examples
Rothamer and colleagues tested devices called mask fitters or mask braces — rubber or plastic frames that fit over the mask molding it more closely to the face.
Today he knows that magic was simply the diversity of a forest left to its own devices.
That’s not surprising, after all, 85% of all internet users in the United States watched online video content monthly on any of their devices.
In others, we get impatient and set off explosive charges or use a powerful sound-making device.
New platforms will include slip-resistant tiles, LED lighting, larger digital displays with arrival information and service alerts, stainless-steel shelters, improved surveillance systems and charging ports for riders’ digital devices.
I still do find it a tremendously useful device to invent a character and have the character sing the song.
Employees strap a device to their heads and power a helicopter drone with their minds.
The extending out of one syllable is a great songwriting device.
They double down on the plot device of a lone visionary opposed by conventional hierarchies.
So filmmakers usually resort to a plot device to compensate for this absence.
This takes at first the crude device of a couple of vertical lines attached to the head (see Fig. 4).
That was not the device of a woman who loved—it savored rather of the cool state-craft of a Lucrezia Borgia.
This would be a device for helping him to revive this hitherto unrecallable name.
By a device resorted to in each separate case to help make a more vivid First Impression.