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gadget
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gadget has 1 sense
- gadget(n = noun.artifact) appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gismo, gizmo, widget - a device or control that is very useful for a particular job; Array is a kind of device
has particulars: gadgetry, gimbal, injector, mod con
Derived form noun gadgeteer1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
gadget, n. any small and usu. ingenious mechanical device or tool.
Derivative
gadgeteer n. gadgetry n. gadgety adj.
Etymology
19th-c. Naut.: orig. unkn.
THESAURUS
gadget
affair, apparatus, appliance, article, artifact, business, concern, contraption, contrivance, creation, device, dingus, dofunny, dohickey, dojigger, dojiggy, domajig, domajigger, doodad, dowhacky, eppes, etwas, flumadiddle, gigamaree, gimcrack, gimmick, gizmo, hand tool, hickey, hootenanny, hootmalalie, implement, instrument, invention, jigger, machine, material thing, means, mechanical device, mechanism, object, power tool, precision tool, quelque chose, something, speed tool, thing, thingum, thingumabob, thingumadad, thingumadoodle, thingumajig, thingumajigger, thingumaree, thingummy, tool, utensil, whatchy, widget
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