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# contrivance

«contrivance» in Mova's school dictionary: **A clever device or plan, often made with ingenious thinking** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (contrivances)

### meaning for a pupil

A clever device or plan, often made with ingenious thinking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contrivance/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a clever machine or trick made by a wise maker: the workman's contrivances were the wonder of the land.

### examples

- The inventor showed us his clever contrivance for lifting water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contrivance/#x1)
- The trap was a simple contrivance of string and sticks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contrivance/#x2)
- Her contrivance got the cat out of the box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contrivance/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «contrivance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contrivance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.