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contraption
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a device that is very useful for a particular job [syn: appliance , contrivance , convenience , gadget , gizmo , gismo , widget ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ By demonstrating his floating contraption - part surfboard, part kayak and part sailboard - Halfon hopes to create a tide of attention. ▪ Early cameras were large and expensive contraptions. ▪ It's a contraption for washing ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Contraption is an American game show and one of the original programs on the Disney Channel , which ran from April 18, 1983 to January 9, 1988 and again from March 8 to October 25, 1989. The show was hosted by actor/comedian Ralph Harris and announced by ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A machine that is complicated and precarious. 2 (context figuratively derogatory or ironic English) Any object.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contraption \Con*trap"tion\, n. A contrivance; a new-fangled device; -- used scornfully. [Colloq. or Dial.] -- Con*trap"tious , a. We all remember some of the extraordinary contraptions which have been thus evolved and put upon the market. --F. M. Ware.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1825, western England dialect, origin obscure, perhaps from con(trive) + trap , or deception .
Usage examples of contraption.
As the Dutch astrophysicist began crawling around and underneath the contraption, Nash went to help Kawakami fold up the discarded shrouds.
The contraption came off, and he handed it to Veronica, then set about rubbing his browridge, as if trying to restore whatever circulation might normally be there.
At its heart was a dark space about big enough for a human face to cover, and on either side of that a couple of queer contraptions against which fingers could be pressed.
May 31, a CIA plane with a strange forklike contraption on the nose set out to retrieve Smith and LeSchack.
Finally they lay in a row on the table, cube, abacus, doll, helmetlike cap, several other mysterious contraptions.
Finally they lay in a row on the table: cube, abacus, doll, helmetlike cap, several other mysterious contraptions.
Small ships, with comparatively little top-hamper in the way of radar: they had the three Soviet types of radar known to NATO as Hawk Screech, Slim Net and Don, but the aerials were unobtrusive, nothing like the contraptions on bigger ships.
The cat-piano player hoisted his trousers and a leglike contraption of wood, metal and plastic appeared.
I gawk at the wiretaps, laptop, printer, code busters, phone phreaking equipment, and lots of other jury-rigged contraptions and punch-pads made from parts that must have once belonged to Pacific Bell.
HF output stage arranged around the perimeter of a crazy pentacle surrounding the procrustean contraption.
The object that had just landed, a large white sphere, had extended a pair of strange, scissorlike contraptions from its midsection, and was cutting itself out of a multilayered bag that had obviously cushioned its impact on the surface.
He was called the evap watchkeeper because his duties were largely concerned with the evaporators, huge white-lagged contraptions on each side of the compartment.
There was hardly any furniture: just the chair, and a contraption in the corner like a trunk, but with a bedframe for the lid.
The contraption reminded Langdon of some sort of cartoon ray gun-a wide cannonlike barrel with a sighting scope on top and a tangle of electronics dangling below.
Big Scaly settled back down aimed some kind of handheld contraption that holovid camera at him.