contrivance
英[k?n'tra?v(?)ns]
美[k?n'tra?v?ns]
- n. 發明；發明物；想出的辦法；計謀
英英釋意
- 1. a device that is very useful for a particular job
- 2. the faculty of contriving; inventive skill;
- "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"
- 3. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade;
- "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"
- 4. an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.;
- "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable"
- 5. any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- 6. the act of devising something