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devise
[ dih-vahyz ]
verb (used with object)
- to contrive, plan, or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas:
to devise a method.
- Theater. to develop (a play) collaboratively with the performers:
Based on the lives of women in engineering, the students devised the play themselves.
- Law. to assign or transmit (property) by will.
- Archaic. to imagine; suppose.
verb (used without object)
- to form a plan; contrive.
noun
- Law.
- the act of disposing of property, especially real property, by will.
- a will or clause in a will disposing of property, especially real property.
- the property so disposed of.
devise
/ 诲瑟藞惫补瑟锄 /
verb
- to work out, contrive, or plan (something) in one's mind
- tr law to dispose of (property, esp real property) by will
- obsolete.tr to imagine or guess
Derived Forms
- 诲别藞惫颈蝉别谤, noun
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 诲别路惫颈蝉路别谤 noun
- 辫谤别路诲别路惫颈蝉别 verb (used with object) predevised predevising
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of devise1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
And so he devised a division of labor system, which he called parataxonomy.
Throughout the series, the women battled it out in boxing matches, basketball contests and even a bizarre contest where they had to devise a TV advert for a mattress, 脿 la The Apprentice.
I鈥檓 partial to the former, in part because it features the only overtly political character Wodehouse ever devised.
He devised a programme specific to the show under his coach Roddy Mackay, a former contestant in the original TV series.
The school has devised evacuation plans, designating emergency meeting points in the basement and routes for pupils and staff to follow in case of any danger.
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