contraption
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appliance, contrivance, gadget, gimmick, gizmo (also gismo), jigger, widget
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But there’s so much more than H2O in that small plastic bottle. Dr. Stoeckle pours the fluid through a special filter atop a glass contraption that looks a bit like a pour-over coffee maker. — Amanda Paulson, The Christian Science Monitor, "Message in a bottle: Forensics meets marine science with eDNA," 15 Aug. 2019 But the overall pattern of the play tips toward despair, seeing families as Rube Goldberg contraptions for the transfer of neurosis. — New York Times, "Review: In ‘Make Believe,’ Four Children Meet Their Inner Adults," 15 Aug. 2019 To accommodate the packed room, highballs are served from a machine, a contraption that's ubiquitous now throughout Tokyo. — Dallas News, "In the watering holes of Tokyo, the highball reigns supreme," 6 Aug. 2019 In drops said shadowy threat, an elastic foe with a clownish cackle and a contraption that will end all organic life on earth — that means people, too! — Nick Romano, EW.com, "First Steven Universe The Movie trailer drops at Comic-Con," 19 July 2019 Internal affairs The authors of the new study, led by Massey University’s Gert Lube, used a contraption called the Pyroclastic flow Eruption Large-scale Experiment, or PELE, to safely study pyroclastic flows in action. — National Geographic, "Volcanic 'avalanches' glide on air, boosting their deadly speed," 8 Apr. 2019 The result was a refrigerator-size contraption of catalysts, tubes, electronics, and filters, assembled a week before the pitch fest. — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, "This former playwright aims to turn solar and wind power into gasoline," 3 July 2019 From pet clothing to yard decorations, the variety of trinkets, contraptions and art pieces was plenty, with more than 60 booths set across Cook Park in Libertyville. — Yadira Sanchez Olson, chicagotribune.com, "'You will never see two of anything': Artists splash Libertyville Days with their creativity," 17 June 2019 To heat meals, the crew used a food warmer tray, a tidy contraption with separate compartments that used conduction to heat meal packages. — Sarah-grace Mankarious, CNN, "Floating food: The history of eating in space," 19 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'contraption.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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