DEVISING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does devising mean? 

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

1. the act that results in something coming to be

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEVISING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act that results in something coming to be

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

devising; fashioning; making

Context example:

it was already in the making

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

production (the act or process of producing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "devising"):

cartography; mapmaking (the making of maps and charts)

film making; movie making; moviemaking (the production of movies)

Derivation:

devise (come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort)

devise (arrange by systematic planning and united effort)

 Context examples 

Several years ago, Hurt began devising suits with graphene to protect workers against hazardous chemicals at environmental clean-up sites.

(Graphene shield shows promise in blocking mosquito bites, National Institutes of Health)

It maddens me to think of the deviltries which they may be devising.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But, you will ask, why these experiences and why this delay, when you and your comrades should have been occupied day and night in the devising of some means by which you could return to the outer world?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Bless my soul, when I see her getting up by candle-light on these dark mornings, busying herself in the day's arrangements, going out to market before the clerks come into the Inn, caring for no weather, devising the most capital little dinners out of the plainest materials, making puddings and pies, keeping everything in its right place, always so neat and ornamental herself, sitting up at night with me if it's ever so late, sweet-tempered and encouraging always, and all for me, I positively sometimes can't believe it, Copperfield!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Instead of superconducting loops, the quantum information in the quantum computer Lepage and his colleagues are devising use the ‘spin’ of an electron – its inherent angular momentum, which can be up or down – to store quantum information.

(Quantum state of single electrons controlled by ‘surfing’ on sound waves, University of Cambridge)

I ran to the house in Soho, and (to make assurance doubly sure) destroyed my papers; thence I set out through the lamplit streets, in the same divided ecstasy of mind, gloating on my crime, light-headedly devising others in the future, and yet still hastening and still hearkening in my wake for the steps of the avenger.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was so unaccountable not to be obliged to go out to see her, not to have any occasion to be tormenting myself about her, not to have to write to her, not to be scheming and devising opportunities of being alone with her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)