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    devise查询结果如下:

    音标:[dɪ'vaɪz] 现在分词:devising
    过去式:devised 过去分词:devised
    名词复数:devises 第三人称单数:devises
    基本释义/说明:vt.设计;发明;遗赠
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    vt.
    ①想出;作出;设计;
    devise a scheme for making money
    想办法赚钱.
    devise how to do sth
    计划如何进行某事:
    He devised an instrument to measure light waves.
    他设计了一台测量光波的仪器.
    ②【法】遗嘱赠与(财产)
    -扩展释义
    adj. 【法律专业】
    遗赠 ,实产遗赠 ,遗赠产;遗赠
    n. 【化学】
    设计,发生
    vt.
    1. 设计;发明;策划;想出,2. 【律】遗赠(不动产)[(+to)]n.1. (不动产的)遗赠
    White supremacists devise new methods to disenfranchise Negroes.
    白人至上论者想出新的方法以剥夺黑人的公民权。
    【海运】
    设计,发明,(想出)计划作出
    -同义词和反义词
    -devise的不同词性形态

    形容词 变体/同根词

    Deviating; not straightforward or honest, not frank; not standard.
    “It just means that it’s necessary to divorce what was said from the devious and somewhat desperate politician who was saying it.”
    “What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.”
    “Factory workers are depicted as work-shy and devious, company directors as unscrupulous.”
    That can be devised or invented. || Capable of being bequeathed, or given by will.
    “Other half interest is devisable by will or passes by succession under probate statutes.”
    “Most states now allow even inter vivos transfers and nearly all treat them as devisable by will.”
    “True liberty is not to be virtually secured by any framework of rules and limitations, devisable only by statecraft.”
    Without a device.
    (now rare) Full of devices; inventive.

    名词 变体/同根词

    An act of devising.
    “But today we live in a time that most people do tricks and deception, and assume them as an agility and ignorant people call them devisal ones.”
    A person who devises something; a planner.
    “A great churchman, Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims, was the deviser of the new arrangement.”
    “Menander was a skilful constructor of plots, an imaginative deviser of situations, and a master of variety and suspense.”
    (law) The person or entity to whom property is devised in a will.
    “The personal representative may similarly serve a copy of the notice on any devisee under another will or heirs or others who claim or may claim an interest in the estate.”
    “It follows from this that Loring, at the time of his death, had no devisable estate in the land, and that the heirs of his devisee cannot maintain this suit.”
    “Or, if the land has been given to a devisee, he can require the executor or administrator to pay the mortgage.”
    The characteristic of being devious; sneakiness; underhandedness.
    “There is apt humor here and no less apt insight into the deviousness of the psyche.”
    “She seemed so innocent, her previous deviousness and cunning gone in a flash.”
    “Few Prime Ministers have ever been more sincere in their piety, and few have been capable of greater deviousness or even unscrupulousness.”

    动词 变体/同根词

    devise的(已不通用)第三人称单数形式
    “How contentful the whole life is of him, that neither deviseth mischief against others, nor suspects any to be contrived against himself.”
    devise的第三人称单数形式
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