devise

Definition:
1. A will disposing of real property.
2. (law) a gift of real property by will.
3. Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort.
4. Arrange by systematic planning and united effort.
5. Give by will, especially real property.

Use 'devise' in a sentence:

1. Lack of standards force enterprise to devise their own way of doing things.
2. It is possible to devise corresponding systematic procedures for rigid jointed frames.
3. Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds!
4. The research teams have until next summer to devise and test their new software.
5. Year by year we devise more precise instruments with which to observe the planets.
6. The first is to devise a realistic set of strategic goals.
7. White supremacists devise new Methods: To disenfranchise Negroes.
8. Governments in developed nations devise and implement policy that changes consumer expectations.
9. It is not easy to devise means.
10. Why do I sit down and devise schemes and invent plans?
11. Experts are trying to devise ways to clean up the huge slick.
12. Every kind of expedient was devised by our friends.
13. This may help us devise new therapeutic approaches for inflammatory skin diseases.
14. Where Nature such dilemmas could devise.
15. New long-range objectives must be devised.
16. He devised a new method of teaching writing.
17. Agronomists are beginning to devise tools to help monitor the efficiency of water use.
18. It would be hard to devise a more wasteful, damaging, unsustainable system.
19. Your assignment will be to choose a discipline that interests you, and devise an experiment.
20. He devised a method to ease the traffic jams in the city.
21. Devise formulas for calculating cost savings.
22. Step 2: Devise formulas for calculating cost savings.
23. They devised a machine.
24. First, the group will devise an economic stimulus plan by the end of the first quarter.
25. Devise a new strategy for coping with whatever was behind your setback.
26. He has devised a process for making gold wires which neither corrode nor oxidise.
27. We would have to devise some incentive to ensure successful completion by all.
28. They devise hundreds of competitions which will enable us to win huge sums of money.
29. The government is devising a plan to liberate prisoners held in detention camps.
30. ALL right, class, here's your homework assignment: Devise an app. Get people to use it.
31. They can also devise new machines to increase the production of goods.
32. Many schemes have been devised to present the hierarchic nature of ecologic units.
33. The CDO's responsibilities are to devise and execute social strategies that grow brand loyalty6 and advocacy on social networks.
34. Devise a budget.
35. It is about devising retail models that work for people who are making increasing use of a growing array of internet-connected tools to change how they search, shop, and buy.
36. Rather than devise complex experiments, he prefers simple intuitive questions and answers.
37. Researchers in Australia have been devising and testing a method of trickery to make lions think they are being watched by the painted eyes on cow butts.
38. She objects to the tests the Government's advisers have devised because they constrict her teaching style.
39. Devise a new instrument.
40. Devise the love that bears not only all punishment but also the guilt!
41. It was the country's rulers who devised this system.
42. Military strategists had devised a plan that guaranteed a series of stunning victories.
43. Galton devised a method of creating composite pictures in which the features of different faces were superimposed over one another.
44. He devised a way of coding every statement uniquely.
45. A personal diet plan is devised after a consultation with a nutritionist.
46. The voters may be ready to punish the politicians who devised a faint-hearted solidarity pact.
47. This is the most popular ball game ever devised.
48. We devised a scheme to help him.
49. You are supposed to devise strategies to alter the cues and routines.
50. A colleague of mine in Milan devised the following very clever little experiment.
51. Besides diets, he devised punishing exercise routines.
52. A new system has been devised to control traffic in the city.