device vs flashcard

device

noun
  • A peripheral device; an item of hardware. 

  • An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb 

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

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

  • 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. 

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

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

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

flashcard

noun
  • A solid-state digital memory storage format, commonly found on computers, digital cameras and cellphones. 

  • A card used to aid rote memorization. One side of the card contains data of one kind, or a question, and the other side contains the associated response which one wants to memorize. For example, one side could contain an English word, and the other side the Spanish translation. 

How often have the words device and flashcard occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )