'contrivances'
[appliance.n.01] as in: a device or control that is very useful for a particular job


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'contrivances'
[contrivance.n.02] as in: the faculty of contriving; inventive skill

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his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem


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'contrivances'
[contrivance.n.03] as in: an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade

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his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track


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'contrivances'
[contrivance.n.04] as in: an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.

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the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable


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'contrivances'
[lash-up.n.01] as in: any improvised arrangement for temporary use


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'contrivances'
[devisal.n.01] as in: the act of devising something


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