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What is another word for contraptions?

Pronunciation: [kəntɹˈapʃənz] (IPA)

"Contraptions" are often used to refer to devices or machines, more often than not, complex ones that are awkwardly designed or difficult to operate. The term "gadget" is a synonym, but generally refers to smaller, more portable devices. "Apparatus," "gizmo," and "widget" are all synonyms for contraptions as well. "Invention" is often used to describe a new contraption or device that has been created. "Innovations" and "creations" are also synonyms for new designs and inventions. "Contrivance," "mechanism," and "tool" can also be used to describe contraptions and machines.
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Usage examples for Contraptions

Did ye see thet sward he hed hangin' ter his saddle, an' did ye note all them qu'ar contraptions he was totin' along with him?
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
It was all very well to indulge in these costly contraptions as a pastime, but if the man had to get his actual living from the soil where would he be?
"Under the Skylights"
Henry Blake Fuller
Why, it will be an awful piece of work to pack off all those contraptions, and it strikes me it is pretty hard on the missionaries.
"An Alabaster Box"
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley

Famous quotes with Contraptions

  • Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
    Henri Poincare
  • A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
    John Jay Chapman
  • The artistic triumph of American Jewry lay, he thought, not in the novels of the 1950s but in the movies of the 1930s, those gargantuan, crass contraptions whereby Jewish brains projected Gentile stars upon a Gentile nation and out of their own immigrant joy gave a formless land dreams and even a kind of conscience.
    John Updike

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