device

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

1949. Geneva Convention on Road Traffic Chapter VI. Provisions Applicable to Cycles in International Traffic Every cycle shall be equipped with: … (b) an audible warning device consisting of a bell …

An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

A peripheral device; an item of hardware.

A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. 1602, Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. "This is our device,/ That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us."

His device is against Babylon, to destroy it.

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb

Inflammable material is planted in my head / It's a suspect device that's left 2000 dead

THE ARMY BOMB Disposal Team rendered safe a viable device in Cavan this afternoon.

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

1736. O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey. The Documentary History of the State of New York Chapter I, Article III: Enumeration of the Indian Tribes. The devices of these savages are the serpent, the Deer, and the Small Acorn.