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Contrivance vs Calling - What's the difference?

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Contrivance is a related term of calling.


As nouns the difference between contrivance and calling

is that contrivance is a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task while calling is a strong urge to become religious.

As a verb calling is

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contrivance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task
  • a means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective
  • * 2005 , .
    • And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance .
  • something overly artful or artificial

    • Related terms

    * contrive

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    calling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A strong urge to become religious.
  • A job or occupation.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling , if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}

    Synonyms

    * vocation