{
    "term": "devise",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "devise",
            "heSheIt": "devises"
        },
        "pastSimple": "devised",
        "pastParticiple": "devised",
        "ingForm": "devising"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to invent something new or a new way of doing something",
            "sensetop": "devise something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "A new system has been devised to control traffic in the city."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Scientists have devised a method of recycling the contaminated oil."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We must devise a new system for dealing with complaints."
                },
                {
                    "text": "specially devised tests"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvaɪz/",
                "audio": "de/devise/devise__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvaɪzɪz/",
                "audio": "de/devise/devises__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvaɪzd/",
                "audio": "de/devise/devised__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvaɪzɪŋ/",
                "audio": "de/devise/devising__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvaɪz/",
                "audio": "de/devise/devise__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvaɪzɪz/",
                "audio": "de/devise/devises__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvaɪzd/",
                "audio": "de/devise/devised__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvaɪzɪŋ/",
                "audio": "de/devise/devising__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: the verb from Old French deviser, from Latin divis- ‘divided’, from the verb dividere (this sense being reflected in the original English sense of the verb); the noun is a variant of device (in the early sense ‘will, desire’)."
}