Definition of contrive

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Contrive (v. i.) To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.

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Devise :: Devise (v. i.) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
Self-registering :: Self-registering (a.) Registering itself; -- said of any instrument so contrived as to record its own indications of phenomena, whether continuously or at stated times, as at the maxima and minima of variations; as, a self-registering anemometer or barometer..
Brew :: Brew (v. t.) To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief..
Plot :: Plot (v. i.) To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
Concoct :: Concoct (v. t.) To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.
Artifice :: Artifice (n.) Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
Manager :: Manager (n.) A contriver; an intriguer.
Trangram :: Trangram (n.) Something intricately contrived; a contrived; a puzzle.
Artificer :: Artificer (n.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer..
Hatch :: Hatch (v. t.) To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy..
Hatcher :: Hatcher (n.) One who contrives or originates; a plotter.
Resonator :: Resonator (n.) Anything which resounds; specifically, a vessel in the form of a cylinder open at one end, or a hollow ball of brass with two apertures, so contrived as to greatly intensify a musical tone by its resonance. It is used for the study and analysis of complex sounds..
Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument..
Getterup :: Getterup (n.) One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc..
Contrived :: Contrived (imp. & p. p.) of Contriv.
Contrivance :: Contrivance (n.) The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement..
Catch :: Catch (n.) A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words..
Ingeniate :: Ingeniate (v. t. & i.) To invent; to contrive.
Project :: Project (v. t.) To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan..
Plan :: Plan (v. t.) To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country..
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