devising
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4.2
- noun
- /dɪˈvaɪzɪŋ/
:
planificación
- So my hopes really are more towards devising better treatments for people.
- of own devising
So my hopes really are more towards devising better treatments for people.
- So my hopes really are more towards devising better treatments for people.
- And I and I, and I think one of the challenges of devising this grand challenge is that we're not sure what intelligence is.
Examples
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Note that this mechanism is a remarkable invention of my own devising.
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And that's something that we've kept in mind in devising and engineering this discussion.
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And I and I, and I think one of the challenges of devising this grand challenge is that we're not sure what intelligence is.
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Here we consider two statutory proposals: one of our own devising and one by Professors Paul Carrington and Roger Cramton.
Academic text (2006) -
We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising...
Academic text (1996) -
She had treated him with oils and philters of her own devising, some brewed from herbs and plants.
Fiction book (2001) -
The executive control over the legislative assembly as a forum for debate and the devising of laws, along with the existing restraints imposed on political action, was revealed to be insufficient following certain developments within the professional syndicates that date back several years.
Academic text (1995) -
After Newton, the aspects of color theory most interesting to artists have been, in addition to theories of harmony, the devising of color systems and the exploration of how colors relate to the mechanisms of perception and affect the feelings of the spectator.
Academic text (1990) -
In the early sixteenth century, cartellini and other types of illusionistic signatures became more inventive in their devising and resembled more closely the signatures of painters elsewhere in Italy.
Academic text (1998) -
The team is focused on devising a new marketing strategy to reach more customers.
Synonyms
507
2.2
To think ahead and decide what to do to prepare for something
320
1.3
The act of producing something
14
6.0
The process of making a clear plan or idea
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3.9
The process of planning and making the shape and parts of something
The act of making a new plan or idea
Creating detailed plans for a building or project
How Careful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Devising comes from an old word that meant 'to divide' or 'to lay out', and is the same root as the English word divide. So, to be devising something is to plan or work out its parts — to lay out an idea or plan.