Brew vs Contrivance - What's the difference?
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To prepare (usually a beverage) by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
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To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to hatch.
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To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
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To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
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(obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.
The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage.
(slang) A beer.
(British, NZ) A cup of tea.
(British, NZ) The act of making a cup of tea.
(British, informal) A hill.
a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task
a means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective
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something overly artful or artificial
Brew is a related term of contrivance.
As nouns the difference between brew and contrivance
is that brew is the mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage while contrivance is a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.As a verb brew
is to prepare (usually a beverage) by steeping and mingling; to concoct.brew
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Verb
(en verb)- Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.
- Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver!
- I wash, wring, brew , bake, scour.
- There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest.
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* brewage * brewer * brewhouse ----contrivance
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Noun
(en noun)- And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance .
