devise
Concoct from scratch
To devise is to plan, invent, or work out something through careful thought: She devised a scheme to get out of jury duty, Engineers devised a new filtration system.
The word suggests mental effort and ingenuity rather than stumbling onto a solution.
In legal contexts, devise specifically means to leave real property by will—distinct from bequeath, which applies to personal property.
Cause to exist
- contriveCreate through artifice
- concoctInvent or devise
- formulateCreate methodically
- conceiveForm a mental notion
originate · engineer · fabricate · construct · design · innovate · brainstorm · prototype
create
Cause to exist
conceive · originate · engineer · fabricate · construct · design · innovate · brainstorm · prototype · conceptualize
bequeath
Transfer by will
- willFaculty of deliberate choice
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- bequestGift left by will
estate · heir · beneficiary · testament · endowment · trust · probate · executor · patrimony · succession
scheme
Calculated strategy, often secretive
- plotStoryline or land parcel
- strategizeDevise a plan
- blueprintDetailed technical drawing
outline · architect · orchestrate · arrange · organize · map out · craft · prepare · calculate · project
- innovationinnovation, invention, innovative, innovate, breakthrough
- inventinvent, create, conceive, come up with, think up
- planningplan, planned, planners, to-do lists, calendars
- improviseimprovise, make do, wing it, ad-lib, jury-rig
- inheritanceinheritance, inheritances, heir, heirs, heiress
- property transfertransfer of ownership, title, property transfer, lease, conveyance
devisecopy
Identical reproduction made
imitate · replicate · duplicate · plagiarize · reproduce
devisestumble upon
Find unexpectedly
discover · chance upon · happen upon · find · improvise
- mobile devicePortable personal electronics
- listening deviceHidden surveillance microphone
- tracking deviceTool revealing location
- output deviceHardware producing visible results
- recording device
- electronic deviceCircuit-powered apparatus
device, devising, devised, devises, deviser, devisers, devisable