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Synonyms for gadgets

Grammar : Noun
Spell : gaj-it
Phonetic Transcription : ˈgædʒ ɪt

Top 10 synonyms for gadgets
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Définition of gadgets

Origin :
  • 1886, gadjet (but said to date back to 1850s), sailors' slang word for any small mechanical thing or part of a ship for which they lacked, or forgot, a name; perhaps from French gâchette "catchpiece of a mechanism" (15c.), diminutive of gâche "staple of a lock."
  • noun device, novelty
Example sentences :
  • He was running all over the auditorium testing your voice with one of his gadgets.
  • Extract from : « The Second Voice » by Mann Rubin
  • I've got gadgets galore, even though I'm between planets at the moment.
  • Extract from : « And Then the Town Took Off » by Richard Wilson
  • It's a little like the jamming, but with music instead of gadgets.
  • Extract from : « Little Brother » by Cory Doctorow
  • Housework is something for gadgets to take care of, with maids to run the gadgets.
  • Extract from : « No Charge for Alterations » by Horace Leonard Gold
  • Scattered here and there in staggering confusion were the machines, the gadgets, the unknown things.
  • Extract from : « The Enormous Room » by Horace Leonard Gold
  • He lifted a hand for silence: then his fingers leaped among the gadgets on the table.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various
  • The closest scrutiny revealed no trace of "gadgets" or of any artifice that had enabled him to thus lift the filled bowl.
  • Extract from : « Indian Conjuring » by L. H. Branson
  • Servo-mechanisms, appliances and gadgets of many kinds for the home, office and industry.
  • Extract from : « Backlash » by Winston Marks
  • In brief, you were errand boy to a bunch of gadgets, with nothing to do but look important.
  • Extract from : « New Hire » by David M. Dryfoos
  • Well, they're red rags to me, all these gadgets out of the half-baked mess they've stirred up by spying on our insides.
  • Extract from : « Old Crow » by Alice Brown
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