Device
Device noun - An article intended for use in work.
Usage example: the salesclerk tried to sell me a new device for grooming cats
Implement
Implement noun - An article intended for use in work.
Usage example: gardening implements such as hoes, spades, and pruners
Device is a synonym for implement in tool topic. You can use "Device" instead a noun "Implement", if it concerns topics such as thing, agent, machine, mechanism. popular alternative
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- In the game show Liar's Club, four celebrity panelists would be given an actual device or implement, and three of them would invent cow tool explanations for what they were used for.
Source: Cow Tools -
The Emperor speaketh about shit.The Custodian: My divine lord, we have managed to implement a text-to-speech device to your glorious Golden Throne!
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However, it was so heavy that Wily had to implement an anti-gravity device on Sword Man's upper half, allowing both parts of his body to function separately of one another.
Source: Video Game / Mega Man 8
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Implement and Device. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/device/implement
Device & Implement. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/device/implement>.
Implement or Device. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/device/implement.
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