1) Appliance 2) Contraption 3) Convenience 4) Device 5) Expedient 6) Gadget 7) Gismo 8) Gizmo 9) Inventive skill 10) Something contrived 11) The act of devising something 12) The faculty of contriving 13) Widget
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1) Appliance 2) Contraption 3) Device 4) Devisal 5) Dodge 6) Gadget 7) Gadgetry 8) Gimbals 9) Injector 10) Instrument 11) Machine 12) Swindle 13) Wangle 14) Wangling 15) Widget
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- a device that very useful for a particular job
- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
- any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- the act of devising something
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• (n.) The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. • (n.) The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement.
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Con·triv'ance noun 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 c...
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n] - an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade 2. [n] - an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. 3. [n] - the faculty of contriving
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stratagem noun 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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something contrived; a device, esp. a mechanical one. · the act or manner of contriving; the faculty or power of contriving. · a plan or scheme; expedient.
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