Contrivance - traducción, pronunciación, transcripción

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Amer.  |kənˈtraɪvəns|  American pronunciation of the word contrivance
Brit.  |kənˈtraɪv(ə)ns|  British pronunciation of the word contrivance

noun

- un dispositivo o control que es muy útil para un trabajo en particularEd (syn: appliance, contraption, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget)
- la facultad de idear; Ed
his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem
- un esquema elaborado o engañoso ideado para engañar o evadirEd (syn: dodge, stratagem)
his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track
- una disposición artificial o antinatural u obviamente artificial de detalles o partes, etc.Ed
the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable
- cualquier arreglo improvisado para uso temporalEd (syn: lash-up)
- el acto de idear algoEd

Matrix of words

noun

- la estratagemastratagem, ruse, trick, feint, contrivance, practice
- el planplan, design, arrangement, layout, contrivance, deliberation
- la tretaruse, feint, trickery, contrivance, wheeze
- la inventivainventiveness, invention, ingenuity, resourcefulness, imagination, contrivance
- el artefacto mecánicocontrivance
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