設計出來的實體：機器、工具
這是最常見、最具體的一支：把那份巧思做成真的看得到摸得到的東西。
tool/machine · noun · B2
A machine or tool designed to do one particular job.
裝置 / 設備
核心畫面
You can picture a device as a small thing somebody designed on purpose to pull off one particular job — a piece of cleverness given a shape. Whether it is a metal in your hand or just a sneaky idea in your head, it is something cooked up to make a specific thing happen.
可以想成：device 的底層畫面比較像「有人為了完成某一件事，特地動腦設計出來的一個東西」。重點不在它是金屬還是想…更多收起
可以想成：device 的底層畫面比較像「有人為了完成某一件事，特地動腦設計出來的一個東西」。重點不在它是金屬還是想法，而在它帶著「刻意設計、為達某目的」的味道——把一份巧思做成某種形狀，讓某件事更容易發生。Two branches
設計出來的辦法：技巧、計謀、手法
同樣是「有人動腦設計出來達成目的」，只是這次設計出來的不是實物，而是一套做法或一個點子。
clever method · noun · B2
A clever method or trick worked out to do one particular thing more easily.
方法 / 技巧
原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
devicenoun/dɪˈvaɪs/
- 1
Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
- Near-synonyms: equipment, tool, machine
- 1949. Geneva Convention on Road Traffic Chapter VI. Provisions Applicable to Cycles in International Traffic Every cycle shall be equipped with: … (b) an audible warning device consisting of a bell …
- 2
computer-hardwarecomputingengineeringA peripheral device; an item of hardware.
- 3
A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. 1602, Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. "This is our device,/ That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us."
- His device is against Babylon, to destroy it.
- He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
- 4
An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
- 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.
- 5
A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
- 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.
- 6
governmentheraldryhobbiesA technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical 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.
- 7
archaicPower of devising; invention; contrivance.
- 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"
- 8
lawAn image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
- 9
mediaprintingpublishingAn image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
- Prior to the issuance of the first stamps, letters accepted by postmasters for dispatch were marked "Paid" by means of pen and ink or hand stamps of various designs. … To facilitate the handling of mail matter, some postmasters provided special stamps or devices for use on letters as evidence of the prepayment of postage.
- 10
Any specific class of wordplay element in a cryptic crossword.
- These eight devices, and combinations thereof, account for nearly every kind of wordplay you will encounter in cryptic crosswords.
- Discovering these variants is much of the fun. All the devices can be combined and twisted to produce surface readings in each clue which point you in the wrong direction.
- 11
obsoleteA spectacle or show.
- It will be out of faſhion to weare ſwords, / Maſques, and devices welcome, I ſalute you […]
- 12
obsoleteOpinion; decision.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。