Device and Situation

Device

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

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

Situation noun - Position with regard to conditions and circumstances.

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Device and situation are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Device" instead a noun "Situation".

Nearby Words: situate, situated, situating

good	good device	good situation
similar	similar device	similar situation
common	common device	common situation
specific	specific device	specific situation
Other adjectives: complex, certain, actual, complicated, dangerous, personal, new, dramatic, deadly, weird, strange, tactical.

Destruction Equals Off-Switch: With almost anything involving unknown or unexploded chemicals or gases, destruction may render the device or situation more dangerous or unstable than just leaving it alone until people qualified in safe cleanup/shutoff procedures can arrive.

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Assassin's Creed I has "synchronization" instead of health, as part of the game's framing device — that is, whether your character's situation matches up with what that character did.

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A situation in which a character (usually the MacGuffin of the plotline) must return to the place where they or an important plot device originated from.

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