Contrivance
noun
Something created or used to solve a problem or do a task.
The new company aimed to create contrivances for challenges faced in the technology sector.
Often appears as...
- clever contrivance
- mechanical contrivance
noun
A plan or scheme for accomplishing something.
His plot to take over the company was a brilliant contrivance, though unethical.
Often appears as...
- cunning contrivance
- nefarious contrivance
noun
The act of devising or constructing something.
The contrivance of a solution to the energy crisis remains a top priority.
Often appears as...
- creative contrivance
- ingenious contrivance
noun
Something created or used to solve a problem or do a task.
The new company aimed to create contrivances for challenges faced in the technology sector.
Often appears as...
- clever contrivance
- mechanical contrivance
noun
A plan or scheme for accomplishing something.
His plot to take over the company was a brilliant contrivance, though unethical.
Often appears as...
- cunning contrivance
- nefarious contrivance
noun
The act of devising or constructing something.
The contrivance of a solution to the energy crisis remains a top priority.
Often appears as...
- creative contrivance
- ingenious contrivance
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Practical Tool
Refers to physical objects designed to perform tasks or solve issues.
She used a simple contrivance to open the stuck jar.
Pro Tip 2/3Innovation Emphasis
Highlights the inventive aspect of an item used for specific purposes.
His homemade contrivance for peeling vegetables was quite innovative.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Complex
Can imply simple inventions, not necessarily complicated gadgets.
The farmer's contrivance for watering plants saved him hours.
Pro Tip 1/3Practical Tool
Refers to physical objects designed to perform tasks or solve issues.
She used a simple contrivance to open the stuck jar.
Pro Tip 2/3Innovation Emphasis
Highlights the inventive aspect of an item used for specific purposes.
His homemade contrivance for peeling vegetables was quite innovative.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Complex
Can imply simple inventions, not necessarily complicated gadgets.
The farmer's contrivance for watering plants saved him hours.
Pro Tip 1/3Practical Tool
Refers to physical objects designed to perform tasks or solve issues.
She used a simple contrivance to open the stuck jar.
Pro Tip 2/3Innovation Emphasis
Highlights the inventive aspect of an item used for specific purposes.
His homemade contrivance for peeling vegetables was quite innovative.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Complex
Can imply simple inventions, not necessarily complicated gadgets.
The farmer's contrivance for watering plants saved him hours.
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Quote examples
Samuel Johnson
English Writer
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
French Photographer
We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.
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Paul Keating
Australian Politician
Truth is, of its essence, liberating, as it is possessed of no contrivance or conceit - that it provides the only genuine basis for progress and that the future can only be found in truth.
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Jill Lepore
American Historian
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.
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Robert Collier
American Author
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
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Gerrit Smith
American Politician
Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.
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Jimmy Carter
American President
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
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Stanley Crouch
American Critic
Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.
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Paul Morrissey
American Director
I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit.
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Charles Babbage
English Mathematician
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
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Samuel Johnson
English Writer
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Quote examples
Henri Cartier-Bresson
French Photographer
We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.
Quote examples
Paul Keating
Australian Politician
Truth is, of its essence, liberating, as it is possessed of no contrivance or conceit - that it provides the only genuine basis for progress and that the future can only be found in truth.
Quote examples
Jill Lepore
American Historian
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.
Quote examples
Robert Collier
American Author
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
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Gerrit Smith
American Politician
Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.
Quote examples
Jimmy Carter
American President
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
Quote examples
Stanley Crouch
American Critic
Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.
Quote examples
Paul Morrissey
American Director
I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit.
Quote examples
Charles Babbage
English Mathematician
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
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