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| | contrivance | (คันไทร'เวินซฺ) n. สิ่งประดิษฐ์, โครงการ, อุบาย, เพทุบาย, การประดิษฐ์, การออกอุบาย, การออกแบบ, Syn. mechanism |
| | contrivance | (n) การประดิษฐ์, สิ่งประดิษฐ์, โครงการ, อุบาย |
| | | | 仕組み(P);仕組 | [しくみ, shikumi] (n, vs) (1) structure; construction; arrangement; contrivance; (2) plan; plot; contrivance; (P) #2,571 [Add to Longdo] | | 仕掛け(P);仕掛 | [しかけ, shikake] (n) device; contrivance; trick; mechanism; gadget; (small) scale; half finished; commencement; set up; challenge; attack; (P) #6,526 [Add to Longdo] | | 案出 | [あんしゅつ, anshutsu] (n) (1) contrivance; (vs) (2) to invent; to devise; to think out [Add to Longdo] | | 一工夫 | [ひとくふう, hitokufuu] (n, vs) (1) contrivance; bit of fiddling; little ingenuity; (n) (2) bit more (e.g. food) [Add to Longdo] | | 機巧 | [きこう, kikou] (n) trick; contrivance; cleverness [Add to Longdo] | | 機軸 | [きじく, kijiku] (n) axis; axle; plan; contrivance [Add to Longdo] | | 工面 | [くめん, kumen] (n, vs) contrivance; raising (money) [Add to Longdo] | | 水機関;水絡繰り;水絡繰(io) | [みずからくり, mizukarakuri] (n) puppet powered by (falling) water; water-powered contrivance; show using such a device (in Edo-period Osaka) [Add to Longdo] | | 絡繰り;絡繰(io);機関 | [からくり, karakuri] (n) (1) (uk) mechanism; machinery; contrivance; device; (2) (uk) trick; dodge; (3) (uk) (abbr) (See からくり人形) mechanical doll; string puppet [Add to Longdo] |
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Contrivance \Con*triv"ance\, n.
1. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or
planning.
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The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by
its construction, contrivance and design.
Contrivance must have had a contriver. --Paley.
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2. The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of
parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; artifice;
arrangement.
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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}.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
contrivance
n 1: a device or control that is very useful for a particular
job [syn: {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" [syn: {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 [syn: {lash-up},
{contrivance}]
6: the act of devising something [syn: {devisal}, {contrivance}]
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