contraption

Noun

Meaning

a device or control that is very useful for a particular job

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The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day. Michael Chabon

Evolution is not just "chance caught on the wing". It is not just a tinkering of the ad hoc, of bricolage, of contraption. It is emergent order honored and honed by selection. Stuart Kauffman

Doubting Thomases scoffed scornfully when Henry Ford tried out his first crudely built automobile on the streets of Detroit. Some said the thing never would become practical. Others said no one would pay money for such a contraption... Napoleon Hill

A log comes hurtling down the zip line at a worrying pace, destroying the log itself and slightly damaging part of the contraption. Source: Internet

It's part of a two-week trial that could see the robotic contraption join other robots policing Singapore's green spaces during a nationwide lockdown. Source: Internet

He said he was not making enough money at a dime a bag, so he used a pole and rope to build a contraption that allowed him to cart up to four bags at once. Source: Internet

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