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
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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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Scheme as a noun:
A systematic plan of future action.
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Scheme as a noun:
A plot or secret, devious plan.
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Scheme as a noun:
An orderly combination of related parts.
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Scheme as a noun:
A chart or diagram of a system or object.
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Scheme as a noun (mathematics):
A type of topological space.
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Scheme as a noun (UK, chiefly, Scotland):
A council housing estate.
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Scheme as a noun (rhetoric):
An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
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Scheme as a noun (astrology):
A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
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Scheme as a noun (internet):
Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
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Scheme as a noun (UK, pensions):
A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
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Scheme as a verb (intransitive):
To plot, or contrive a plan.