| contradance | (v) perform a contradance, Syn. country-dance, contra danse, contredanse |
| contrivance | (n) the faculty of contriving; inventive skill, Example: his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem |
| contrivance | (n) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade, Syn. stratagem, dodge, Example: his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track |
| contrivance | (n) an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc., Example: the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable |
| Contradance | n. [ Pref. contra- + dance: cf. F. contrdance. Cf. Country-dance. ] A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Contrivance | n. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ] Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Burke. |
| contrivance | (n) สิ่งประดิษฐ์ |
| contrivance | (n) อุบาย, Syn. plan, expedient |
| contrivance | (คันไทร'เวินซฺ) n. สิ่งประดิษฐ์, โครงการ, อุบาย, เพทุบาย, การประดิษฐ์, การออกอุบาย, การออกแบบ, Syn. mechanism |
| contrivance | (n) การประดิษฐ์, สิ่งประดิษฐ์, โครงการ, อุบาย |
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| 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] |