Synonyms for contraptions
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kuh n-trap-shuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : kənˈtræp ʃən |
Top 10 synonyms for contraptions Other synonyms for the word contraptions
Définition of contraptions
Origin :- 1825, western England dialect, origin obscure, perhaps from con(trive) + trap, or deception.
- noun device
- The telephone man stepped to the nearest of his contraptions.
- Extract from : « The Railroad Problem » by Edward Hungerford
- The boomerang we have already introduced to our readers, and some of the other contraptions we shall now proceed to explain.
- Extract from : « The Art of Amusing » by Frank Bellew
- He didn't believe the rumours, and he spoke scornfully of the new machines as contraptions.
- Extract from : « The Wrong Twin » by Harry Leon Wilson
- But we have been too long getting on with half-measures, makeshifts, contraptions of all sorts.
- Extract from : « The American Country Girl » by Martha Foote Crow
- He was cleaning the under part, the mechanisms and contraptions that can only be got at when the bridge is thus ajar.
- Extract from : « Hills and the Sea » by H. Belloc
- Kites, that was it, contraptions of tissue paper held at the end of a string, ornaments not to be taken seriously.
- Extract from : « Three Soldiers » by John Dos Passos
- He was firmly convinced that Ed Smith and all his contraptions would soon be abolished from the office of the Star.
- Extract from : « Hempfield » by David Grayson
- I had not made any contraptions for that purpose, having not thought about it in the hurry to leave my prison.
- Extract from : « The Revolutions of Time » by Jonathan Dunn
- Is this hyar another of your contraptions to tell what the weather's goin' to be like the year after next?
- Extract from : « The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men » by Francis William Rolt-Wheeler
- Then they broiled the steaks over the clear fire on one of the contraptions which Dig had laughed at his chum for packing.
- Extract from : « The Trail Boys on the Plains » by Jay Winthrop Allen
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