Associations to the word «Devise»
Noun
- Ingenuity
- Scheme
- Plan
- Strategy
- Ruse
- Method
- Means
- Remedy
- Invention
- Wit
- Tactic
- Solution
- Compass
- Lure
- Algorithm
- Trap
- Measuring
- Experiment
- Measure
- Psychologist
- Linguist
- Edison
- Technique
- Motto
- Procedure
- Compromise
- Render
- Mechanism
- Test
- Wendell
- Taxation
- Scientist
- Construct
- Terminology
- Mankind
- Colleague
- Execution
- Orthography
- Antecedent
- Lagos
- Implement
- Alphabet
- Overflow
- Repentance
- Bondage
- Devise
- Gan
- Apparatus
- Bot
- Commandment
- Bribe
- Notation
- Envy
- Lust
- Amour
- Tremble
- Wherefore
- Nomenclature
Adjective
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Wiktionary
DEVISE, verb. (transitive) To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).
DEVISE, verb. (transitive) To leave (property) in a will.
DEVISE, verb. (intransitive) (archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
DEVISE, verb. (transitive) (archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
DEVISE, verb. (obsolete) To imagine; to guess.
DEVISE, noun. The act of leaving real property in a will.
DEVISE, noun. Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
DEVISE, noun. The real property left in such a will.
DEVISE, noun. Design, devising.
Dictionary definition
DEVISE, noun. A will disposing of real property.
DEVISE, noun. (law) a gift of real property by will.
DEVISE, verb. Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light".
DEVISE, verb. Arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office".
DEVISE, verb. Give by will, especially real property.
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.