Collocations for "device"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "device" in context.
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device
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [a medical, industrial] device
- [incendiary, explosive] devices
- your [mobile, wireless, handheld] device
- [a storage, an input] device
- an electronic device (for)
- a device for [measuring, making, straightening]
- a device that [can, allows, will, has, enables, saves]
- [invented, developed, made] a device that [can]
- [turn, shut] off (all) of your devices
- [charge, plug in, connect] a device
- [add, remove] a device
- is always [hooked up, attached] to her devices
- [breathing deeply, counting to 10] is a good device to use for
- a device I use to [calm down, focus, concentrate]
- the [explosive] device was [neutralized, deactivated]
- were left to their own devices
- is a [plot, poetic] device
- device drivers
- the device manager
'device' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Earth
- able
- adjustment
- attached
- automatically
- breathe
- capture
- charged
- coin
- compatible
- component
- cot
- counterfeit
- default
- delete
- demonstration
- detect
- disable
- dock
- electronic
- envisage
- experiment
- explode
- fairly
- feature
- folder
- frequently
- friendly
- function
- fussy
- generation
- handset
- hooked
- input
- installation
- jack
- juice
- kernel
- keyboard
- listening
- loading
- lock
- manual
- massage
- mechanical
- memory
- mint
- mobile
- monitor
- often