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Gambit vs Contrivance - What's the difference?

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Gambit is a related term of contrivance.


As nouns the difference between gambit and contrivance

is that gambit is gambit, a form of opening a chess game while contrivance is a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.

gambit

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An opening in chess, in which a minor piece (often a pawn) is sacrificed to gain an advantage.
    • Her clever opening gambit gave her an advantage.
  • Any ploy or stratagem.
    • Their promise to lower taxes is clearly an election-year gambit .
  • A remark intended to open a conversation.

    • 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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