English to English
noun
- a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
source: WordNet 3.0
- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
His skillful contrivance of answers to every problem.
source: WordNet 3.0
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
His testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track.
source: WordNet 3.0
- an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
The plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable.
source: WordNet 3.0
- any improvised arrangement for temporary use
source: WordNet 3.0
- the act of devising something
source: WordNet 3.0
- The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.
source: Webster 1913
English to Tagalog
noun
- [contráivans] Isipan; paraan; hakā; kathâ
source: Diccionario Ingles-Espaņol-Tagalog
