Contrivances Synonyms

Something invented
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. inventions
  2. devices
An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. gismos
  2. machines
  3. widgets
  4. doohickeys
  5. devices
  6. conveniences
  7. gadgets
  8. tools
  9. instruments
  10. doodads
  11. contraptions
  12. appliances
  13. gears
  14. apparatuses
  15. inventions
  16. dodges
  17. shifts
  18. engines
  19. schemes
  20. projects
  21. plans
  22. creations
  23. discoveries
  24. implements
  25. things
  26. jiggers
  27. expedients
  28. gimmicks
  29. mechanisms
  30. designs
  31. tackles
  32. artifices
  33. materials
  34. stratagems
  35. harnesses
  36. concerns
A plan, especially an ingenious plan
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. artifices
  2. schemes
  3. stratagems
  4. expedients
Something, as a machine, devised for a particular function
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. devices
  2. contraptions
  3. appliances
  4. apparatuses

Contrivances Sentence Examples

  • Contrivances of the most diverse constructions have been employed.

  • Great improvements, however, have been effected in the design of open fireplaces, and many ingenious contrivances of this nature are now in the market which combine efficiency of heating with economy of fuel.

  • Organs which respond to the mechanical stimulus of contact are found to possess special contrivances in certain of their cells(I) sensitive spots, consisting of places here and there on the epidermal cells where the wall is thin and in close contact with protoplasmic projections.

  • Nature therefore has provided various contrivances by which their seeds are disseminated beyond the actual position they occupy.

  • When he visited Rome with Gunibald, king of the Burgundians, he took him to Boetius, who showed them, amongst other mechanical contrivances, a sun-dial and a water-clock.

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