Gadget

Definition: Gadget

Gadget

Noun

1. A device that very useful for a particular job.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gadget" was first used: 1886. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Gadget

Crosswords: Gadget

French (gadget, games, gimmick, theatrics).

I think the chief meant that someone's stealing things from the mansions, Uncle Gadget. (Inspector Gadget; writing credit: Nezihe Araz)

Inspector Gadget 2 (2003)

Hobo Gadget Band (1939)

Inspector Gadget (2001)

Gadget Boy's Adventures In History (1998)

Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas (1992)

Inspector Gadget (performing artist: Inspector Gadget)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Cane Curiosa: From Gun to Gadget (reference)

• Gadget (reference)

• Inspector Gadget in Africa (reference)

• Sammy's Gadget Galaxy: A Book About Patience (Building Christian Character) (reference)

• The Gadget (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Gadget Trips: Mindscapes (reference)

• Inspector Gadget (reference)

• Inspector Gadget 2 (reference)

• Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Best of Fad Gadget (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• CANON Gadget Bag 2200 (reference)

• Minolta SLR Gadget Bag with Shoulder Strap (reference)

• Gadget Racer (reference)

• Gadget Racers (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• WMF Profi Plus 4-Piece Basics Gadget Set with Wire Caddy (reference)

• Tupperware Garlic Wonder Gadget (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Beginning with "gadget": gadget-hungry, gadget-laden, gadget-lined.

Albanian

vegël (applicator, cat's paw, doohickey, dummy, engine, implement, instrument, Jigger, tool, utensil, utility), pajisje (amenities, capital goods, device, equipage, equipment, facilities, fit out, fitment, fitting, fittings, fixing, fixings, mounting, provision, rig, rigging, supply, tackle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏جزء من آلة, ‏أداة (agent, appliance, device, implement, particle, tool, utensil), ‏آلة صغيرة (counter). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кухненски уред, приспособление (appliance, contraption, device, gimmick), джуджурия. (various references)

Chinese 

小配件. (various references)

Czech

zařízení (alarm, apparatus, appliance, appointment, arrangement, contraption, contrivance, device, equipment, facilities, facility, furnishing, installation, institution, unit), strojek. (various references)

Danish

holdetang (snap). (various references)

Dutch

punteerstang (snap), klauwenpontil (snap). (various references)

Farsi 

مکانیکی (Mechanic), انبر (Tong), الت کوچک , اسباب (Apparatus, Apparel, Appliance, Appurtenance, Article, Contraption, Contrivance, Doodad, Engine, Gear, Implement, Instrument, Layout, Paraphernalia, Rig, Tackle, Thing, Tool, Utensil), ابزار (Doodad, Implement, Tool). (various references)

Finnish

vekotin, vehje (apparatus, device), laite (apparatus, appliance, contrivance, device, equipment, outfit, plant), koje (agent, apparatus, appliance, device, instrument, means, set, tool). (various references)

French

gadget (games), pontil � griffes, petit truc, petit instrument, machin. (various references)

German

vorrichtung (apparatus, appliance, artifice, boom, contrivance, device, fixture, gear, set, workholder, work-holding device), gerät (apparatus, appliance, console, device, equipment, gadgetry, implement, instrument, piece of equipment, set, tabletop, tackle, tool, unit, utensil), Zubehörgerät. (various references)

Greek 

κολωνάτα (snap), μικροεφεύρεση, μηχάνημα (contrivance, device, fixture, machine), επινόημα (contraption, contrivance, device, figment). (various references)

Hebrew 

מכשיר מחוכם, מכשיר (aid, apparatus, appliance, implement, instrument, organ, tool), אמצא�" (device, invention), �"מצא�" (concoction, contrivance, device, figment, invention), �"תקן (apparatus, contrivance, device). (various references)

Hungarian

szerkentyű (contraption, gimmick), bigyó (doodad). (various references)

Indonesian

perlengkapan (appurtenance, equipment, outfit), perkakas (tool, utility). (various references)

Italian

rocca a griffe (snap), Regalo (donation, gift, present, presentation), dispositivo (appliance, contrivance, device), congegno (appliance, contraption, contrivance, device, gear, mechanism, widget), arnese (agent, contraption, gear, implement, means, thing, tool, utensil), aggeggio (contraption, device, gimmick). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

珍�"具 , 仕掛け (challenge, commencement, device, half finished, mechanism, scale, set up, trick), 仕掛 (challenge, commencement, device, half finished, mechanism, scale, set up, trick), ガス焜炉 (background chatter on a soundtrack, chewing gum, gadget bag, gadolinium, gamelan, gas range, gas station, gasohol, gasoline, gasoline engine car, gasoline stand, gateau, GATT, gattable, gavotte, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, glass, glass block, glass wool, governability, gut, guts, guts pose, packing tape, pane, petrol), ガザ地区 (aluminum-foil burner liner, foreign worker, gadget bag, gas, gas bomb, gas chromatography, gas mask, gas station, gas turbine, gasket, gastrocamera, gastronomic, gastronomist, gastronomy, Gaza Strip). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しかけ (challenge, commencement, device, half finished, mechanism, scale, set up, trick), ガゼット , ガジェット , ち�"どうぐ. (various references)

Manx

gliggyr (accessory). (various references)

Norwegian

greie (accomplish, cope), innretning (contrivance, device). (various references)

Pig Latin

adgetgay.(various references)

Portuguese

roca de pinças (snap), pontel de garras (snap), pontel com pinças (snap), invenção (coinage, contrivance, device, excommunicate, fabrication, fiction, figment, finding, flam, invention, mintage, origination), engenhoca (contraption), dispositivo (apparatus, appliance, contrivance, device, flam), cinzas (ash, ashes, breeze, cinders, embezzle, fly ash, mineral matter or wine, pulverised fuel ash), aparelho (apparatus, appliance, clearcole, contrivance, device, Dresden, equipment, fixture, instrument, set, tackle, telephone, undercoat). (various references)

Romanian

dispozitiv mic. (various references)

Russian 

безделушка (bagatelle, bauble, bijou, bric-a-brac, doodad, falderal, gewgaw, kickshaw, knick knack, knickknack, knick-knack, Nick nack, rattletrap, trinket, whatnot). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uređaj (aircraft control unit, appliance, device, gear, installation, machine), patent (patent), naprava (implement). (various references)

Spanish

artilugio (contraption, doodad, doodah, doohickey, gadgets, gimmick, Hickey, ruse, thingummy, widget). (various references)

Swedish

tillbehör (accessories, accessory, ancillary attachment, appendage, appurtenance, attachment, auxiliary attachment, device, fittings, fixings, implement, paraphernalia, pertinents, special attachment, utilities, utility). (various references)

Thai

อุปกร�"์ขนา�"เล็ก (gadgetry). (various references)

Turkish

zımbırtı (doing, doings, doodad, doohickey, gimcrack, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whosit), püf noktası (crux, knack, pivot, the nub, tip, trick), marifetli küçük araç, küçük alet, hile (adulteration, artifice, arts, canard, catch, cheat, cheating, chicane, cobweb, collusion, craft, cross, deceit, deception, decoy, device, do, dodge, doubling, dupery, duplicity, fake, false pretences, false pretenses, finesse, flam, flimflam, fraud, gaff, gambit, gammon, gimmick, gouge, hanky panky, have, have on, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, imposture, jiggery pokery, maneuver, manipulation, manoeuvre, plant, ploy, practice, pretense, rig, rigging, rip off, ruse, sell, sham, sleight of hand, slyness, subterfuge, tortuosity, trick, trickery, wheeling and dealing, wile), değersiz şeyler (pulp), üçkâğıt (cheat, fiddle, frame up, have, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, jiggery pokery, rouser, ruse, skin game, swindle, trick, wheeler-dealing, wheeling and dealing, wile), ıvır zıvır (chaff, crap, dead wood, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadgetry, gadgety, gewgaw, Gubbins, junk, knick knack, knickknack, nicknack, odds and ends, rubbish, small potatoes, trifles, trinket, trinkets). (various references)

Ukranian 

технічна новинка, нове пристосування. (various references)

Vietnamese 

máy cải tiến đ�" dùng, đ�" vật (nick-nack, object), đ. (various references)

g�chette. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "gadget": gadgeteer, gadgeteers, gadgetries, gadgetry, gadgets, gadgety. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Gadget" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aggett, badget, Badgett, dagget, gaddet, gadge, Gadgetco, gadgi, gadgit, gadjet, Gadjiev, gasget, Gedgey, gidget, giget, Gnadige, godge, goldgar, Padget, Radiguet. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tagged.

-1 letter: gaged, gated.

-2 letters: aged, date, egad, gaed, gage, gate, geta.

-3 letters: age, ate, dag, eat, egg, eta, gad, gae, gag, gat, ged, get, tad, tae, tag, tea, ted, teg.

-4 letters: ad, ae, ag, at, de, ed, et, ta.

+1 letter: gadgets, gadgety, stagged.

+2 letters: faggoted, gadgetry, retagged, untagged.

+3 letters: draggiest, gadgeteer, jaggedest, mortgaged, raggedest, staggered, straggled.

+4 letters: aggravated, aggregated, delegating, derogating, gadgeteers, gadgetries, outbragged, outdragged, segregated, tobogganed.

+5 letters: arpeggiated, congregated, denigrating, desegregate, designating, digitigrade, exaggerated, footdragger, gangsterdom, goaltending, goddaughter, remortgaged, watchdogged, waterlogged.

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