List of devices

Cis forClothes iron

An iron is a device that gets very hot on the flat side underneath it. You rub the flat side on your clothes to remove the wrinkles and make sharp creases.

Devices

Pete Birkinshaw / CC BY-SA

Cis forCog

Cogs are the small "teeth" around the edges of gears. Cogs allow the gears to grip onto each other as they turn around.

Devices, Parts

Paul Downey / CC BY-SA

A compass is a small device with a needle in the middle that always points north. They work because the needle is a small magnet and the Earth is a big magnet, and the needle always tries to line up with the magnetic field of the Earth.

Devices

Karin Dalziel / CC BY-SA

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A computer is a device that lets you do many, many things. It is very likely you are reading this on a computer. Computers are used for drawing, writing, playing games, making music and many many other things too.

Devices, Office

Niek Beck / CC BY-SA

Cis forContact lens

Contact lenses are small pieces of soft plastic gel that can be worn directly on your eyes instead of glasses.

Devices

Joe Hall / CC BY-SA

Cis forCorkscrew

A corkscrew is a device used for getting corks out of wine bottles. It has a helix-shaped sharp spike that you twist into the cork, and then pull out the cork with the help of the handles.

Devices

Erik Söderström / CC BY-SA

Cis forCrane (machine)

A crane is a machine that is used for lifting things. Cranes can be very small and used for moving things around in a backyard, or they can be very big and used for lifting things to the top of very tall buildings.

Devices

Photographic Dictionary / Generated illustration

Cis forCrystal Ball

A crystal ball is thought to aid people in telling the future. Gazing in to a crystal ball is supposed to reveal images that may be used to help tell someone's fortune.

Devices

Sarah Joy / CC BY-SA

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A dial is a round device that is marked with letters or numbers. They are most commonly seen on older phones. Used as a verb, dial means the process of calling someone on a phone, for example "I am dialling your number".

Devices, Verbs