Dictionary Entry
devise
devise is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 15 senses
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- 1transitive verb
To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument.
- 2transitive verb
To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.
- 3transitive verb
To say; to relate; to describe.
- 4transitive verb
To imagine; to guess.
- 5transitive verb
To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.
- 6intransitive verb
To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
- 7noun
The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.
- 8noun
A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property.
- 9noun
Property devised, or given by will.
- 10noun
Device. See Device.
- 11noun
(law) a gift of real property by will
- 12noun
a will disposing of real property
- 13verb
come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
"excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
- 14verb
arrange by systematic planning and united effort
"machinate a plot"
"organize a strike"
- 15verb
give by will, especially real property
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