Gimmick vs Contrivance - What's the difference?
gimmick | contrivance |
A trick or device used to attain some end.
* April 19 2002 , Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightville [http://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/]
A clever ploy or strategy.
To rig or set up with a trick or device.
a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task
a means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective
* 2005 , .
something overly artful or artificial
As nouns the difference between gimmick and contrivance
is that gimmick is a trick or device used to attain some end while contrivance is a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.As a verb gimmick
is to rig or set up with a trick or device.gimmick
English
Noun
(en noun)- The box had a gimmick to make the coin appear to vanish.
- Epperlein and Tucker focus on two featherweight hopefuls: Dustin Poirier, a formidable contender who’s looking to parlay a history of schoolyard violence and street-fighting into a potential career, and Albert Stainback, a more thoughtful yet more erratic and undisciplined fighter whose chief gimmick is entering the ring wearing a hat like the one Malcolm McDowell wore in A Clockwork Orange .
- The contest was a gimmick to get people to sign up for their mailing list.
Derived terms
* gimmicky * gimmickryVerb
(en verb)- The magician's box was gimmicked with a wire that made it appear to open on its own.
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 .