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Synonyms for contraption

Synonyms for contraption: apparatus and gadget. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line

The 2 synonyms for contraption

Interchangeable with contraption in this sense

Audited under contraption's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one contraption carries in that sense.

apparatusnoun, in the sense "an unusual, complicated, or makeshift device or machine"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name contraption as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

gadgetgadget is a noun in the sense "a small mechanical or electronic device, especially an ingenious one"

one of these comes from contraption's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineObjects

an unusual, complicated, or makeshift device or machine

The contraption in the garage could crush a dozen cans with one pull of the lever.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

apparatus

Same sentence, swapped: The apparatus in the garage could crush a dozen cans with one pull of the lever.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for contraption in the sentence quoted.

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Where contraption turns up in the game

contraption is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play contraption

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so contraption reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. contraption carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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