Devise can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| devise - give by will, especially real property | ||
| devise - arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office" | ||
| devise - come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" | ||
Noun |
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| devise - (law) a gift of real property by will | ||
| devise - a will disposing of real property |
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| 1. | verb | Devise a plan to take over the director's office. | |
| 2. | verb | We must devise some means of escape. | |
| 3. | verb | He tried to devise a plan for getting rid of termites. | |
| 4. | verb | He could devise clever alibis. | |
| 5. | verb | Dorcon, finding himself vanquished, fled into the woods to hide his shame and displeasure, and to devise some other means of succeeding in his love affairs. | |
| 6. | verb | Then first with eager joy / "O Goddess-born," the bold Achates cries, / "how now? What purpose doth thy mind devise? / Lo! all are safe – ships, comrades brought again; / one only fails us, who before our eyes / sank in the midst of the engulfing main. / All else confirms the tale thy mother told thee plain." | |
| 7. | verb | "By his words made wise / this steed, for stol'n Palladium, they devise, / to soothe the outrag'd goddess." |
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| verb | |
| Devise a plan to take over the director's office. |
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| We must devise some means of escape. | |
| He tried to devise a plan for getting rid of termites. | |
| He could devise clever alibis. | |
| Dorcon, finding himself vanquished, fled into the woods to hide his shame and displeasure, and to devise some other means of succeeding in his love affairs. | |
| Then first with eager joy / "O Goddess-born," the bold Achates cries, / "how now? What purpose doth thy mind devise? / Lo! all are safe – ships, comrades brought again; / one only fails us, who before our eyes / sank in the midst of the engulfing main. / All else confirms the tale thy mother told thee plain." | |
| "By his words made wise / this steed, for stol'n Palladium, they devise, / to soothe the outrag'd goddess." | |