Device and Novelty

Device

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

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

Novelty noun - The quality or appeal of being new.

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Device and novelty are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Device" instead a noun "Novelty".

Nearby Word: novel

single	single device	single novelty
main	main device	main novelty
new	new device	new novelty
minor	minor device	minor novelty
Other adjectives: mysterious, medical.

Edison ran the first public exhibition of the Kinetoscope in 1894 in New York City, and the novelty of the device made it an immediate success, earning Edison more than $85,000.

Source: Useful Notes / The Pre Hollywood Era
Another Don Rosa story, "Gyro's First Invention", reveals how Gyro's lightbulb-headed robot sidekick Helper was invented (he was actually a novelty lamp exposed to a prototype of an intelligence-boosting device Gyro made in another story, "The Think Box Bollix" by Carl Barks).

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