Device and Measure

Device

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

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

Measure noun - An action planned or taken to achieve a desired result.

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Device and measure are semantically related in preventive or institutive action topic. Sometimes you can use "Device" instead a noun "Measure".

good	good device	good measure
common	common device	common measure
certain	certain device	certain measure
standard	standard device	standard measure
Other adjectives: popular, small, actual, large, great, main, new.

When using a Tok'ra device to measure his strength (which involves squeezing a metal sphere), O'Neill accidentally crushes the device.

Source: Super Strength
The Spoony Experiment: Doctor Insano built a device to measure gayness in giga-queers.

Source: Abstract Scale
Moving Pictures has the resograph, a device designed by a wizard named Riktor the Tinkerer to measure changes in the fabric of reality.

Source: Thing-O-Meter

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