The difference between Device and Scheme

When used as nouns, device means any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one, whereas scheme means a systematic plan of future action.


Scheme is also verb with the meaning: to plot, or contrive a plan.

check bellow for the other definitions of Device and Scheme

  1. 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."

  2. Device as a noun (computing):

    A peripheral device; an item of hardware.

  3. Device as a noun:

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

  4. Device as a noun (Ireland):

    An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb

  5. Device as a noun (rhetoric):

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

  6. 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.

  7. Device as a noun (archaic):

    Power of devising; invention; contrivance.

  8. Device as a noun (legal):

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

  9. Device as a noun (printing):

    An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.

  10. Device as a noun (obsolete):

    A spectacle or show.

  11. Device as a noun (obsolete):

    Opinion; decision.

  1. Scheme as a noun:

    A systematic plan of future action.

  2. Scheme as a noun:

    A plot or secret, devious plan.

  3. Scheme as a noun:

    An orderly combination of related parts.

  4. Scheme as a noun:

    A chart or diagram of a system or object.

  5. Scheme as a noun (mathematics):

    A type of topological space.

  6. Scheme as a noun (UK, chiefly, Scotland):

    A council housing estate.

  7. Scheme as a noun (rhetoric):

    An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.

  8. Scheme as a noun (astrology):

    A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.

  9. Scheme as a noun (internet):

    Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.

  10. Scheme as a noun (UK, pensions):

    A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.

  1. Scheme as a verb (intransitive):

    To plot, or contrive a plan.