Oh my word Device, Devise

The radical group huddled in a hideout to devise a strategy to blow up the devices of the police station which they planned to target. Device is an instrument, a tool, a contraption. Devices are made for a specific purpose, or they are invented things which are mechanical or electrical in nature.

In literature, rhetorical device is a technique of writing intended to make an impact on the reader or listener. It aims to create an effect that is creative, imaginative and adding quality to writing which would have employed an unusual word pattern, figure of speech, combination of word sounds ( I am not God. I love her; truly love her. He is as slimy as a snake).

Devices get outdated or obsolete with the evolving technology. The devices such as telex, fax machines, tape recorders are getting outdated. In 19th century, there advertisements in magazines on devices like Chin Reducer and Beautifier! Is there a difference between a device and a gadget? They are used interchangeably but gadgets are usually smaller in size and are electronic in nature such as mobile phones, tablets, computers, translators.

Devices are made of different components but gadgets can be tools, or even an application that is efficient: are Smartphones are outsmarting mobile devices. Teleprinter is a device which was once popular in newsrooms. The device consisted of a typewriter-like keyboard and a printer which were coupled to the motor by clutches that are brought into operation automatically when required.

Telex (noun) is a device with which one people communicated: Telex is an in an international system of telegraphy with printed messages transmitted and received by teleprinters using the public telecommunications network. Telegraph networks are set up to send and receive text by telex.

Like people exchanged messages over a gadget like mobile phone now, then they did with the aid of devices like telex machine.The President of the US had telexed the President of the USSR for a bilateral meeting in the backdrop of Cuban Missile Crisis to devise a strategy to diffuse the crisis.

Devise is a verb meaning to conceive, craft, create, design, formulate, hatch a plan, plan, plot. Chemists are devising a technology that can significantly improve to capture and retain energy sunlight: the stored energy can last longer for example up to weeks unlike the existing technology such as on rooftop solar panels and solar lamps where the energy is stored for a short span i.e. microseconds. The students devised a plan of action to work on an uncompleted device.

Kovuuri G Reddy