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Device vs Appealing - What's the difference?

device | appealing |

As nouns the difference between device and appealing

is that device is any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one while appealing is the act of making an appeal.

As an adjective appealing is

having appeal; attractive.

As a verb appealing is

present participle of lang=en.

device

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
  • * 1949 . Geneva Convention on Road Traffic
  • Every cycle shall be equipped with: [...] (b) an audible warning device consisting of a bell [...]
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
  • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=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 project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
  • *
  • His device is against Babylon, to destroy it.
  • *
  • He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
  • * 1827 Hallam, Henry, , Harper
  • Their recent device of demanding benevolences.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=
  • , title=Pixels or Perish, volume=100, issue=2, page=106 , magazine= citation , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
  • (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device .
  • (senseid)(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.
  • * 1736 . O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey. The Documentary History of the State of New York .
  • The devices of these savages are the serpent, the Deer, and the Small Acorn.
  • (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
  • * 1824 . Landor, Walter Savage "King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage" from Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen , page 44
  • Moreover I must have instruments of mine own device , weighty, and exceeding costly
  • * 1976 . The Eagles, "Hotel California"
  • And she said,
    "We are all prisoners here,
    Of our own device "
  • (legal) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
  • (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
  • * 1943 United States Post Office Department. A Description of United States Postage Stamps / Issued by the Post Office Department from July 1, 1847, to April 1, 1945 [sic] , USGPO, Washington, p1:
  • Prior to the issuance of the first stamps, letters accepted by postmasters for dispatch were marked "Paid" by means of pen and ink or hand stamps of various designs. [...] To facilitate the handling of mail matter, some postmasters provided special stamps or devices for use on letters as evidence of the prepayment of postage.
  • (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
  • (Beaumont and Fletcher)
  • (obsolete) Opinion; decision.
  • Synonyms

    * (piece of equipment) apparatus, appliance, equipment, gadget, design, contrivance * (project or scheme) scheme, project, stratagem, artifice * invention, contrivance

    Derived terms

    * biodevice * device driver * electronic device * framing device * intrauterine device * literary device * nondevice * peripheral device

    appealing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having appeal; attractive.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Michael Riordan , title=Tackling Infinity , volume=100, issue=1, page=86 , magazine= citation , passage=Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.}}
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012
  • , date=September 7 , author=Dominic Fifield , title=England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=Those were all landmark moments to cherish. Just as appealing was the manner in which Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Milner cut swathes down either flank, albeit through flustered full-backs who had looked poorly positioned and horribly jittery from the start. }}

    Derived terms

    * appealingly

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making an appeal.
  • * 1866 , Heros von Borcke, Memoirs of the Confederate War for independence
  • The fair creature abandoned her position, and in the midst of her bitter tears and pathetic appealings , which my sense of duty alone enabled me to resist, I bore my prisoner off.

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