Device and Implement

noun

• An instrumentality invented for a particular purpose.
  • usage: "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water"
• Something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect.
• Any clever maneuver.
  • usage: "he would stoop to any device to win a point"; "it was a great sales gimmick"; "a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen"
  • synonyms: gimmick, twist
• Any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery. )
• An emblematic design (especially in heraldry. )
  • usage: "he was recognized by the device on his shield"

• (n.) Anything fancifully conceived.
• (n.) Opinion; decision.
• (n.) That which is devised or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
• (n.) Improperly, an heraldic bearing.
• (n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance.
• (n.) A spectacle or show.
• (n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.

noun

• Instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end.

verb

• Apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design.
  • usage: "implement a procedure"
• Ensure observance of laws and rules.
  • usage: "Apply the rules to everyone";
  • synonyms: enforce, apply
• Pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue.
  • usage: "Did he go through with the treatment"; "He implemented a new economic plan"; "She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal"
  • synonyms: follow through, follow up, follow out, carry out, put through, go through

• (v.t.) To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement.
• (n.) That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; especially, an instrument, toll or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry or of war.
• (v.t.) To accomplish; to fulfill.
• (v.t.) To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied or carried out, by means of an implement or implements.