Device and Idea

Device

Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.

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Idea and device are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Idea" instead a noun "Device".

Idea noun - Something imagined or pictured in the mind.

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Device and idea are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Device" instead a noun "Idea".

Nearby Words: ideal, ideation

old	old device	old idea
good	good device	good idea
similar	similar device	similar idea
common	common device	common idea
Other adjectives: single, simple, popular, actual, big, great, dangerous, evil, little, main, personal, new, mere, weird, strange, central.

They never stop to think: "Hey, there might be some potential to misuse this doomsday device so maybe it's not such a hot idea to invent it."

Source: Pointless Doomsday Device
The tongue-in-cheek idea of building an anti-gravity or perpetual motion device by attaching a piece of buttered toast to a cat's back and dropping them from a height.

Source: It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Strangelove, proposed a doomsday device to the Strategic Air Command officers as a rhetorical device to illustrate how this idea was but a slight exaggeration of their primary nuclear warfare strategy.

Source: Doomsday Device

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