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contrivance    音標拼音: [kəntr'ɑɪvəns]
n. 發明,發明的才能,想出的辦法,發明物

發明,發明的才能,想出的辦法,發明物

contrivance
n 1: a device or control that is very useful for a particular
job [synonym: {appliance}, {contraption}, {contrivance},
{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" [synonym: {contrivance}, {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 [synonym: {lash-up},
{contrivance}]
6: the act of devising something [synonym: {devisal}, {contrivance}]

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]

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

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