device vs watermark

device

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

watermark

noun
  • A logo superimposed on a digital image, a television broadcast, etc. 

  • A mark indicating the level to which water has risen. 

  • A translucent design impressed on the surface of paper and visible when the paper is held to the light. 

  • A value stored in a datafile to ensure its integrity, so that if the file's contents are changed then the watermark will no longer match the contents. 

verb
  • To mark paper with a watermark. 

  • To mark a datafile with a digital watermark. 

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