Definizione monolingua

gadget

gadget (plural gadgets)

1. (obsolete) a thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey
   • 1886, Robert Brown, Spunyard and Spindrift, A Sailor Boys Log of a Voyage Out and Home in a China Tea-clipper:

     Then the names of all the other things on board a ship! I dont know half of them yet; even the sailors forget at times, and if the exact name of anything they want happens to slip from their memory, they call it a chicken-fixing, or a gadjet, or a timmey-noggy, or a wim-wom—just pro tem., you know.

2. any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.

   He bought a neat new gadget for shredding potatoes.

   Thats quite a lot of gadgets you have collected. Do you use any of them?

Definizione dizionario gadget

	congegno
	A clever device designed for a specific practical use.
	A complicated or awkward device.

	gadget
	A lightweight and task-specific add-in program that integrates with applications to expose data at a glance.

arnese

strumento

aggeggio

apparato

coso

dispositivo

utensile

Altri significati:

(small) scale

any device or machine

any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.

(obsolete) a thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey