The difference between Device and Invention
When used as nouns, device means any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one, whereas invention means something invented.
check bellow for the other definitions of Device and Invention
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Device as a noun:
Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
Examples:
"There are a number of household devices in a kitchen such as a dishwasher, a garbage disposal, or an electric can opener."
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Device as a noun (computing):
A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
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Device as a noun:
A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
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Device as a noun (Ireland):
An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
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Device as a noun (rhetoric):
A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
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Device as a noun (heraldry):
A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily because as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.
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Device as a noun (archaic):
Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
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Device as a noun (legal):
An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
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Device as a noun (printing):
An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
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Device as a noun (obsolete):
A spectacle or show.
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Device as a noun (obsolete):
Opinion; decision.
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Invention as a noun:
Something invented.
Examples:
"My new invention will let you alphabetize your matchbook collection in half the usual time."
"I'm afraid there was no burglar. It was all the housekeeper's invention."
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Invention as a noun:
The act of inventing.
Examples:
"The invention of the printing press was probably the most significant innovation of the medieval ages."
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Invention as a noun:
The capacity to invent.
Examples:
"It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it."
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Invention as a noun (music):
A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach's Two- and Three-part Inventions.
Examples:
"I particularly like the inventions in C-minor."
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Invention as a noun (archaic):
The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.
Examples:
"That judicial method which serveth best for the invention of truth."