Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
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.
An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
A computer.
A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.
The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
To make by machinery.
To shape or finish by machinery; (usually, more specifically) to shape subtractively by metal-cutting with machine-controlled toolpaths.