contrivance

contrivance
I noun artifice, collusion, complicity, connivance, craft, deception, design, designing power, device, dodge, engineering, excogitatio, intrigue, inventio, invention, inventiveness, machination, maneuver, manipulation, means to an end, mechanism, method, plan, plot, scheme, stratagem, strategics, subterfuge, tactics, wile, wily device II index appliance, arrangement (plan), artifice, collusion, conduit (channel), connivance, conspiracy, expedient, facility (instrumentality), instrument (tool), invention, loophole, machination, ploy, project, resource, scheme, stratagem, strategy, tool

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  • Contrivance — Con*triv ance, n. 1. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. [1913 Webster] The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • contrivance — [n1] plan, fabrication angle, artifice, brainchild, coinage, design, dodge, expedient, formation, gimmick, intrigue, invention, inventiveness, machination, measure, plot, project, ruse, scheme, slant, stratagem, switch, trick, twist; concept 660… …   New thesaurus

  • contrivance — 1620s, from CONTRIVE (Cf. contrive) + ANCE (Cf. ance) …   Etymology dictionary

  • contrivance — *device, gadget, contraption Analogous words: invention, creation, discovery (see corresponding verbs at INVENT): *implement, tool, instrument, appliance, utensil: *machine, mechanism, apparatus …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • contrivance — ► NOUN 1) the action of contriving. 2) an ingenious device or scheme …   English terms dictionary

  • contrivance — [kən trī′vəns] n. 1. the act, way, or power of contriving 2. something contrived, as an invention, mechanical device, or ingenious plan …   English World dictionary

  • contrivance — [[t]kəntra͟ɪv(ə)ns[/t]] contrivances 1) N VAR (disapproval) If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial. [FORMAL] The thing that they all have in common is that they wear simple… …   English dictionary

  • contrivance — noun 1 (C, U) a clever plan to get something for yourself by deceiving someone, or the practice of doing this: Their story was a clumsy contrivance to persuade me to help them. 2 (C) a machine or piece of equipment that has been made or invented… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • contrivance — UK [kənˈtraɪv(ə)ns] / US noun Word forms contrivance : singular contrivance plural contrivances 1) [countable/uncountable] a plan to trick someone in order to get something for yourself, or the use of such a plan 2) [countable] a clever or… …   English dictionary

  • contrivance — noun a) a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, they too have come about by godlike contrivance. b) a means, such as an elaborate plan o …   Wiktionary

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