Device vs Way - What's the difference?

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Device is a related term of way.

As a noun device

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

As a proper noun way is

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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 [...]

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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.

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(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

way

English

(wikipedia way)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wei, wai, weighe, from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* waye (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

(lb) To do with a place or places.

#A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.

#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

#*:The way seems difficult, and steep to scale.

#*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)

#*:The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance.

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#*, chapter=4

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.}}

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, title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere.

#A means to enter or leave a place.

#*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=14 citation , passage=Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}

#A roughly-defined geographical area.

A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.

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, chapter=4, title= Lord Stranleigh Abroad , passage=“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.

, chapter=2, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way' she laughed, cackling like a hen, the ' way she talked to the waiters and the maid,

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(lb) Personal interaction.

#Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').

#Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.

(lb) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.

(lb) Speed, progress, momentum.

*1977 , (w, Richard O'Kane), Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang , Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:

*:Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way .

A degree, an amount, a sense.

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way . The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}

(lb)

Quotations

* (path or direction) "Do you know the way to San Jose?" [ : "It's a long way to Tipperary, / it's a long way to go." [It’s a Long Way to Tipperary , a marching and music hall song by Jack Judge and Henry "Harry" James Williams, popularized especially by British troops in World War One] * (a tradition within Heathenry) To walk the Way of the Runes, you must experience the runes as they manifest both in the part of Midgard that lies outside yourself and the worlds within. (Diana Paxson)

Hyponyms

* See also

Derived terms

* by way of * by the way * change one's ways * come one's way * either way * every which way * give way * go all the way * go out of one's way * have it both ways * in a way * in the way * in the way of * have a way with * have one's way * have one's wicked way * know one's way around * lose one's way * no way * no way to treat a lady * on the way * one way or another * right of way * runway * slipway * taxiway * the way things are * the way to a man's heart is through his stomach * wayfinding * way in * way of all flesh * Way of the Cross * way of the world / ways of the world * way of life * way off * way out * waybill * way to go

Interjection

(en interjection)

It is true.

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To travel.

* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:

on a time as they together way'd , / He made him open chalenge [...].

Statistics

Etymology 2

Apheresis of (m).

Alternative forms

* (dated)

Adverb

(-)

(informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.

I'm way too tired to do that.

I'm a way better singer than she.

* 2006 , , Volume 32, Issues 1-6, page 132,

It turns out that's way more gain than you need for a keyboard, but you don't have to use all of it to benefit from the sonic characteristics.

(slang, with positive adjective) Very.

I'm way tired

String theory is way cool, except for the math.

* 2005 , Erika V. Shearin Karres, Crushes, Flirts, & Friends: A Real Girl's Guide to Boy Smarts , page 16,

With all the way cool boys out there, what if you don't recognize them because you don't know what to look for? Or, what if you have a chance to pick a perfect Prince and you end up with a yucky Frog instead?

(informal) Far.

I used to live way over there.

The farmhouse is way down the bottom of the hill.

Synonyms

* (much) far, much, loads * (very) so, very

Etymology 3

From the sound it represents, by analogy with other velar letters such as kay'' and ''gay .

Noun

(en noun)

The name of the letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.

Anagrams

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