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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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of
        parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; artifice;
        arrangement.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to
              provide for human wants.              --Burke.
  
     Syn: Device; plan; scheme; invention; machine; project;
          design; artifice; shift. See Device.
          [1913 Webster]

  Contrivance \Con*triv"ance\, n.
     1. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or
        planning.
  
              The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by
              its construction, contrivance and design.
              Contrivance must have had a contriver. --Paley.
  
     2. The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of
        parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice;
        arrangement.
  
              Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to
              provide for human wants.              --Burke.
  
     Syn: Device; plan; scheme; invention; machine; project;
          design; artifice; shift. See Device.

  contrivance
       n 1: a device that is very useful for a particular job [syn: appliance,
             contraption, convenience, gadget, gizmo, gismo,
             widget]
       2: the faculty of contriving; inventive skill; "his skillful
          contrivance of answers to every problem"
       3: an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or
          evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us
          off the track" [syn: stratagem, dodge]
       4: an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived
          arrangement of details or parts etc.; "the plot contained
          too many improbable contrivances to be believable"
       5: any improvised arrangement for temporary use [syn: lash-up]
       6: the act of devising something [syn: devisal]

  contrivance
     n.
     1 A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
     2 A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a
  certain objective.

  contrivance
     n.
     1 A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
     2 A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a
  certain objective.

  contrivance
     n.
     1 A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
     2 A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a
  certain objective.

  contrivance
     n.
     1 A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
     2 A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a
  certain objective.

  contrivance
     Englanti n.
     1 keksintö, koje, metku
     2 kekseliäisyys

  Contrivance /kəntɹˈaɪvəns/
  الإختراع

  contrivance //kənˈtɹaɪ.vəns// 
  1. приспособление
  (mechanical) device to perform a certain task
  2. способ, средство
  elaborate means to accomplish an objective
  3. похват, хитрина
  something overly artful or artificial

  contrivance /kəntɹˈaɪvəns/ 
  vynález

  contrivance /kəntɹˈaɪvəns/ 
  machinace

  contrivance /kəntɹˈaɪvəns/ 
  úskok

  contrivance /kəntɹˈaɪvəns/
  zařízení

  contrivance /kəntɹˈaɪvəns/
   [formal] Kunstgriff , Kniff , Dreh  [ugs.]

  contrivance /kəntɹˈaɪvəns/
   [formal] raffinierter Plan , Schachzug , Winkelzug , Manöver , Masche , Trick , Rank  [Schw.] , Strategem , Strategema [geh.]
     Synonyms: scheme, stratagem
  

  contrivance /kəntɹˈaɪvəns/
  Vorrichtung , Apparat , Gerät 
   see: contrivances
  

  contrivance //kənˈtɹaɪ.vəns// 
  rekkula, vempele, vimpain
  (mechanical) device to perform a certain task

  contrivance /kəntɹˈaɪvəns/ 
  1. युक्ति
        "The contrivance of Bank robbery could not materialize."
  2. यन्त्र
        "There is a beautiful contrivance for cutting curved shapes."

  contrivance /kəntɹˈaɪvəns/
  izum, pronalazak, pronalaženje

  contrivance /kəntɹˈaɪvəns/
  1. szerkezet
  2. eszköz
  3. feltalálás
  4. terv
  5. találmány
  6. kiagyalás
  7. találékonyság
  8. berendezés

  contrivance /kənˈtraɪvəns/ 
   1.  [nieform]  urządzenie, dings
   2.  pomysł, sztuczka

  contrivance /kəntɹˈaɪvəns/
  1. tertip, tertibat, icat
  2. mekanizma
  3. gizli plan, entrika.

  
/kənˈtɹaɪvəns/

  244 Moby Thesaurus words for "contrivance":
     Charlie McCarthy, action, ad hoc measure, agent, anagnorisis,
     ancilla, angle, answer, apparatus, appliance, approach,
     architectonics, architecture, argument, arrangement, art,
     artful dodge, artifice, atmosphere, attack, authorship, background,
     beginning, blind, blueprint, blueprinting, brainchild, cabal,
     calculation, catastrophe, characterization, charting, chicanery,
     coinage, collusion, color, complication, complicity, complot,
     conception, concoction, confederacy, connivance, conspiracy,
     continuity, contraption, contriving, countermove, counterplot,
     coup, course of action, covin, craft, creation, creative effort,
     creature, cute trick, deceit, deep-laid plot, demarche, denouement,
     design, development, device, devising, disposition, dodge, dummy,
     dupe, effort, engineering, enterprise, envisagement, episode,
     expedient, fable, fabrication, fakement, falling action, feint,
     fetch, figuring, finagling, finesse, foresight, forethought,
     frame-up, gadget, gambit, game, generation, gimcrack, gimmick,
     gizmo, go-between, graphing, grift, ground plan, guidelines,
     hand tool, handmaid, handmaiden, hatching, idea, implement,
     improvisation, incident, instrument, intention, interagent,
     intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, intrigue, invention,
     jugglery, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, knavery, last expedient,
     last resort, last shift, layout, lever, line, lineup, little game,
     local color, long-range plan, machination, makeshift, making do,
     maneuver, maneuvering, manipulation, mapping, master plan, means,
     measure, mechanical device, mechanism, mediator, medium, method,
     methodology, midwife, minion, mintage, mood, motif, move, movement,
     mythos, operations research, organ, organization, origination,
     pawn, peripeteia, pis aller, plan, planning, planning function,
     plaything, plot, plotting, ploy, power tool, prearrangement,
     precision tool, procedure, program, program of action, puppet,
     racket, rationalization, recognition, red herring, resort,
     resource, rigging, rising action, ruse, schedule, schema,
     schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement,
     schemery, scheming, secondary plot, servant, setup, shake-up,
     shift, slant, slave, sleight, solution, speed tool, step, stooge,
     stopgap, story, stratagem, strategic plan, strategy, stroke,
     stroke of policy, structure, subject, subplot, subterfuge, switch,
     system, systematization, tactic, tactical plan, tactics,
     temporary expedient, the big picture, the picture,
     thematic development, theme, tone, tool, topic, toy, trick,
     trickery, trump, twist, underplot, utensil, vehicle, way,
     web of intrigue, wile, wily device, wire-pulling,
     working hypothesis, working plan, working proposition
  
  

  n. 发明,发明的才能,想出的办法;

     n. 发明,发明的才能,想出的办法,发明物