contrivance
Nouns
- (n) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job appliance, contraption, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget, convenience,
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(n) the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
- his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem
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(n) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track
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(n) an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
- the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable
- (n) any improvised arrangement for temporary use lash-up,
- (n) the act of devising something devisal,