- appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gizmo, gismo, widget - a device that is very useful for a particular job
--1 is a kind of device
--1 has particulars: gadgetry; gimbals; injector; mod con - contrivance - the faculty of contriving; inventive skill; "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"
--2 is a kind of invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design
- contrivance, stratagem, dodge - an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"
--3 is a kind of scheme, strategy
--3 has particulars: plant; pump-and-dump scheme; wangle, wangling- contrivance - an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.; "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable"
--4 is a kind of arrangement, organization, organisation, system
- lash-up, contrivance - any improvised arrangement for temporary use
--5 is a kind of arrangement
--5 has particulars: temporary hookup, patch- devisal, contrivance - the act of devising something
--6 is a kind of invention
Derived form: verb contrive2 - contrivance, stratagem, dodge - an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"