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Devices vs Gadget - What's the difference?

devices | gadget |

As nouns the difference between devices and gadget

is that devices is while gadget is (obsolete) a thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.

devices

English

Noun

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * left to one's own devices

    gadget

    English

    (wikipedia gadget)

    Alternative forms

    * gadjet

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) a thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey
  • * 1886 , Robert Brown, Spunyard and Spindrift, A Sailor Boy's Log of a Voyage Out and Home in a China Tea-clipper :
    • Then the names of all the other things on board a ship! I don't know half of them yet; even the sailors forget at times, and if the exact name of anything they want happens to slip from their memory, they call it a chicken-fixing, or a gadjet , or a timmey-noggy, or a wim-wom—just pro tem. , you know.
  • any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.
    • He bought a neat new gadget for shredding potatoes.
    That's quite a lot of gadgets you have collected. Do you use any of them?

    Synonyms

    * contraption * contrivance * doohickey * gizmo * widget

    Derived terms

    * gadgety

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