contrivance 音标拼音: [kəntr'ɑɪvəns]
n . 发明,发明的才能,想出的办法,发明物
发明,发明的才能,想出的办法,发明物
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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