DEV

Dev may refer to:Eamon de Valera, former Prime Minister (Taoiseach) and President of IrelandDev (film), a Bollywood movieDev, a Sanskrit word for a class of Hindu deity Dēv, Middle Persian for Zoroastrianism's daevasDev Alahan, one of the prominent characters in the British soap opera "Coronation Street"dev, an attribute of an inode in a Unix file system (see stat())/dev, a directory in the Unix file systemDevon (Chapman code: DEV), a county in the west of England
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A device node, device file, or device special file, a type of special file, features on many Unix-like operating systems. Device nodes facilitate transparent communication between  user-space applications and computer hardware. There also exist special device files on DOS computers, most notably those running MS-DOS.
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n. giant, monster, colossus, something that is huge, titan, person or thing of enormous size

adj. giant, huge, kingsize, colossal, massy

(n.)
Alt. of Deva
  

[Other] In ancient Armenian mythology, they are a group of immortal spirits who inhabit old ruins. They mingle with the living. Some of them are beneficent, such as the dog-shaped Aralez who restores those fallen in battle to life by licking their wounds. Others, such as Ays, Vishap and the torturer Chival, are truly evil.

Daeva (Avestan) Dev (Pahlavi) Div (Persian) In the Avesta, beings of malicious intent popularly regarded as fiends or demons under the sway of Angra Mainyu. It is a generalizing name for the class of spiritual, quasi-spiritual, and ethereal beings recognized in the mystical literatures of other countries as daimones, devas, spirits, etc. They range thus from self-conscious beings of relatively high evolutionary grade through intermediate stages down to what in theosophy are called elementals.
"In the Vendidad the Daevas are called 'evil-doing,' and shown to rush away 'into the depths of the world of hell,' or matter. . . . This is an allegory showing the Devas compelled to incarnate, once that they have separated themselves from their parent essence, or, in other words, after the unit had become a multiple, after differentiation and manifestation" (SD 2:516). In another sense, Blavatsky interprets the daevas as referring to the Atlantean giants (SD 2:772).
In Persian, the divs are wicked, powerful beings who oppose the rule of just kings of Iran.