Contrivance vs Thingumabob - What's the difference?
contrivance | thingumabob | Related terms |
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
Contrivance is a related term of thingumabob.
As nouns the difference between contrivance and thingumabob
is that contrivance is a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task while thingumabob is .contrivance
English
Noun
(en noun)- And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance .