Definition of devise verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
devise meaning, definition, what is devise: to plan or invent a new way of doing som...: Learn more.
Today devise is most commonly used as a synonym of invent or plot in situations where the objective is difficult or complicated. Note that devise is often confused with another dividere (and deviser) descendent: device refers to a technique, method, tool, or small machine or gadget.
DEVISE definition: to contrive, plan, or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas. See examples of devise used in a sentence.
For as long as such levies have been on the books, lawyers have been devising strategies to get around them. Along the way, you can devise your own buildings, machines, flora, fauna, and other items to build virtual worlds. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.
If you devise a plan, system, or machine, you have the idea for it and design it. We devised a scheme to help him. [VERB noun] New long-range objectives must be devised. [VERB noun]
- to contrive, plan, or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas: to devise a method. 2. to transmit (property) by will. 3. Archaic. to imagine; suppose. 4. to form a plan; contrive.
invent, or create from existing principles or ideas: to devise a method. de vise (di vīz′), v., -vised, -vis ing, n. invent from existing principles or ideas: to devise a method. Law to assign or transmit (property) by will. suppose. contrive. n. the act of disposing of property, esp. real property, by will.