DEVICES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does devices mean? 

• DEVICES (noun)
  The noun DEVICES has 1 sense:

1. an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase 'left to your own devices'

  Familiarity information: DEVICES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEVICES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase 'left to your own devices'

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

the children were left to their own devices

Hypernyms ("devices" is a kind of...):

disposition; inclination; tendency (an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others)

 Context examples 

At any rate, it is safer to leave people to their own devices on such subjects.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Handle-like devices designed to facilitate a person's ability to get upright and out of a bed.

(Bed Assist Bar Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

This may be achieved through the use of devices, drugs or surgery.

(Birth Control Method, NCI Thesaurus)

Research project involving detection of breast tumors (screening, diagnosis clinical trials), development or refinement of diagnostic techniques or devices, education or promotion of breast cancer detection.

(Breast Cancer Detection Research, NCI Thesaurus)

The Center within the Food and Drug Administration that is responsible for regulating firms who manufacture, repackage, relabel, and/or import medical devices sold in the United States.

(Center for Devices and Radiological Health, NCI Thesaurus)

A collection of interconneced devices designed to act together to repeat and enhance a signal.

(Cascade Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

Wearable devices used to monitor a variety of health and environmental measures are becoming increasingly popular.

(Flexible Wearable Electronics Use Body Heat for Energy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They wanted to develop an inexpensive paper battery powered by bacteria that could be easily incorporated into these single-use devices.

(New Type of Battery Created from Paper, Fueled by Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Participants wore blood-pressure monitoring devices that took regular readings, while researchers controlled for factors including people's age, gender, education, occupation, smoking status, body mass index, level of job stress and other variables.

(High Blood Pressure Liked to Long Hours on Job, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There are significant implications for the mechanical properties of two-dimensional materials and devices.

(Graphene: The more you bend it, the softer it gets, National Science Foundation)