Device vs System - What's the difference?
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Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
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A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
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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 .
(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
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(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.
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(obsolete) A spectacle or show.
(obsolete) Opinion; decision.
A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members.
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# (label) A set of equations involving the same , which are to be solved simultaneously.
# (medicine) The body organs that contribute to a vegetative function.
# (label) A set of staffs that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.
A method or way of organizing or planning.
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# (derogatory) In the system : the mainstream culture, elites, or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual.
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As nouns the difference between device and system
is that device is any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one while system is a collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members.device
English
Noun
(en noun)- Every cycle shall be equipped with: [...] (b) an audible warning device consisting of a bell [...]
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- His device is against Babylon, to destroy it.
- He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
- Their recent device of demanding benevolences.
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- The devices of these savages are the serpent, the Deer, and the Small Acorn.
- Moreover I must have instruments of mine own device , weighty, and exceeding costly
- And she said,
- "We are all prisoners here,
- Of our own device "
- 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.
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Synonyms
* (piece of equipment) apparatus, appliance, equipment, gadget, design, contrivance * (project or scheme) scheme, project, stratagem, artifice * invention, contrivanceDerived terms
* biodevice * device driver * electronic device * framing device * intrauterine device * literary device * nondevice * peripheral devicesystem
English
(wikipedia system)Noun
(en noun)- As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.