Advice vs. Device — What's the Difference?

Opinion about what could or should be done about a situation or problem; counsel.

A thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment

Often advices Information communicated; news

A plan, method, or trick with a particular aim

(uncountable) An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful.

A drawing or design

Deliberate consideration; knowledge.

An object designed and manufactured to perform one or more functions.

Information or news given; intelligence

A literary contrivance, such as parallelism or personification, used to achieve a particular effect.

(countable) In language about financial transactions executed by formal documents, an advisory document.

A decorative design, figure, or pattern, as one used in embroidery.

(uncountable) In commercial language, information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange

A graphic symbol or motto, especially in heraldry.

A communication providing information, such as how an uncertain area of law might apply to possible future actions

A plan or scheme for accomplishing something

Counseling to perform a specific legal act.

Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.

Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.

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

In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached.

A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

Misspelling of advise

(Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb

An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.

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

Deliberate consideration; knowledge.

(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.

Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; - commonly in the plural.

(archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.

Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.

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

A proposal for an appropriate course of action

(printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.

(obsolete) A spectacle or show.

(obsolete) Opinion; decision.

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.

Power of devising; invention; contrivance.

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.

Anything fancifully conceived.

A spectacle or show.

Opinion; decision.

Any artifactual object designed to perform an action or process, with or without an operator in attendance.

An instrumentality invented for a particular purpose;

Something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect

Any clever (deceptive) maneuver;

Any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery)

An emblematic design (especially in heraldry);