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Dismembrator vs. Device — What's the Difference?

Dismembrator vs. Device — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Dismembrator and Device

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Dismembrator

A device that removes the membrane from liquid.

Device

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

Device

A plan, method, or trick with a particular aim
Writing a letter to a newspaper is a traditional device for signalling dissent

Device

A drawing or design
The decorative device on the invitations

Device

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

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

Device

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

Device

A graphic symbol or motto, especially in heraldry.

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).

Device

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

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.

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

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