Utility vs Gadget - What's the difference?
utility | gadget |
The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
Something that is useful.
(economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
(business, finance) A service provider, such as an electric company or water company; or , the securities of such a provider.
(computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system or application software.
(sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
(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.
As nouns the difference between utility and gadget
is that utility is the state or condition of being useful; usefulness while gadget is (obsolete) a thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.utility
English
Noun
(utilities)- I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.
Synonyms
* (state of being useful) usefulness, * See alsogadget
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?
