contrivance
Seed from Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025
Meanings by context
-
- definition a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- definition the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
- definition an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- definition an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
- definition any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- definition the act of devising something