Contrivance vs Implement - What's the difference?

Contrivance is a related term of implement.

is that contrivance is a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task while implement is a tool or instrument for working with.

to bring about; to put into practice.

(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

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(wikipedia implement)

From .

(en noun)

A tool or instrument for working with.

They carried an assortment of gardening implements in the truck.

* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 234:

A man dreamt as follows: He saw two boys struggling—barrel-maker’s boys, to judge by the implements lying around.

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From Scottish English or (etyl)

(en verb)

to bring about; to put into practice

It’s a good thought, but it will be a difficult thing to implement .

to carry out; to do

* Objects: plan, programme, strategy, policy, agreement, order, specification, etc.

* implementable * implementation * implementer

* * English heteronyms