Gadget vs Electronic - What's the difference?
gadget | electronic |
(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 :
any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.
(physics, chemistry): Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
Operating on the physical behavior of electrons, especially in semiconductors.
Generated by an electronic device.
Of or pertaining to the Internet.
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As a noun gadget
is (obsolete) a thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.As an adjective electronic is
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English
(wikipedia gadget)Alternative forms
* gadjetNoun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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 * widgetDerived terms
* gadgetyAnagrams
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Adjective
(-)citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}