Synonym: appliance, contraption, convenience, devisal, dodge, gadget, gismo, gizmo, lash-up, stratagem, widget. Similar words: contrive, contrived, connivance, contrite, contribute, contributor, contrition, contributory. Meaning: [kən'traɪvns] 
n. 1. a device or control that is very useful for a particular job 2. the faculty of contriving; inventive skill 3. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade 4. an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. 5. any improvised arrangement for temporary use 6. the act of devising something.
n. 1. a device or control that is very useful for a particular job 2. the faculty of contriving; inventive skill 3. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade 4. an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. 5. any improvised arrangement for temporary use 6. the act of devising something. 
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1. He erected some contrivance for storing rain water.
2. Some things are beyond human contrivance.
3. Examinations are a contrivance to see how a student tackles new problems.
4. Music with a tendency towards contrivance and lack of substance.
5. I think the meeting happened more by contrivance than chance.
6. My irritation at the contrivance lasted for 30 seconds.
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7. Documentary began to be deserted in favour of contrivance and artifice.
8. This was a steam-driven contrivance used in 19th century clothing factories.
9. In the absence of the contrivance, the increase would not occur.
10. In this way a social contrivance appears to be founded on the natural order of things.
11. It also takes on a patina of contrivance, verbal and visual anachronisms, Mara Blumenfeld's quirky costumes aside.
12. The boy was busied about some mechanical contrivance.
13. Contrivance is obvious throughout the book.
14. It was another good contrivance.
15. Load tap switch is the central contrivance in load-ratio voltage regulation of transformer.
16. His testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track.
17. And when cuteness and contrivance get too much, as in the film's ending[Sentencedict.com], the radiant Thompson can be counted on to put a tart spin on sentiment.
18. Most poor nations, living very hard, create contrivance, this road, they walk.
19. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government.
20. A mechanical, electrical, or electronic contrivance with a specific purpose.
21. Such a machine is beyond the contrivance of ordinary people.
22. I have an ingenious contrivance to get her to sign the document without reading it.
23. The story is told with a complete absence of contrivance.
24. But the 1996 World Cup was something of a contrivance, a made-for-promotional-purposes event.
25. Another visitor who arrived just before the Bigelow party took one look at the flimsy contrivance and declined to descend.
26. At the same time, we look for the predictability of outcome that is guaranteed by technological contrivance.
27. He never was in earnest, Cadfael reflected with certainty, and it would spoil his sport to use contrivance.
28. Omally craned his neck above the crowd and peered towards the sinister contrivance.
29. His personal force and genius, combined with so much persuasion and contrivance, swept aside many obstacles.
30. The appearance and function were satisfactory. Conclusions Clover-shaped flap is a good contrivance in finger web reconstrction for congenital syndactyly. Clinial effects are satisfying.
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