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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation, creativeness |
| Synonyms: | apparatus, black box, brainchild, coinage, concoction, contraption, contrivance, creativity, design, development, device, discovery, doodad, gadget, genius, gimmick, gizmo, imagination, ingenuity, innovation, inspiration, inventiveness, novelty, opus, original, originality, resourcefulness |
| Antonyms: | steal |
| Main Entry: | artifice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skill, cleverness |
| Synonyms: | ability, adroitness, deftness, facility, finesse, ingenuity, invention, inventiveness, know-how, skill |
| Antonyms: | artlessness, inability, incapacity, simplicity, uncleverness |
| Main Entry: | breakthrough |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advance, progress |
| Synonyms: | boost, development, discovery, find, finding, gain, hike, improvement, increase, invention, leap, progress, quantum leap, rise, step forward |
| Antonyms: | step back, step backward |
| Main Entry: | conception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning, birth |
| Synonyms: | fertilization, formation, germination, impregnation, inception, initiation, insemination, invention, launching, origin, outset, start |
| Notes: | a concept is a more definite, more unitary, more complete type of notion than is a conception, which is more of an ideational structure with a potential for realization (rather like a schema) |
| Antonyms: | abortion, death |
| Main Entry: | construction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation, building |
| Synonyms: | architecture, arrangement, assembly, build, cast, composition, conception, constitution, contour, cut, development, disposition, edifice, elevation, erecting, erection, fabric, fabricating, fabrication, figuration, figure, form, format, formation, foundation, improvisation, invention, makeup, making, manufacture, mold, origination, outline, plan, planning, prefab, prefabrication, putting up, raising, rearing, roadwork, shape, structure, system, systematization, turn, type |
| Antonyms: | destruction, disfigurement, disorganization, ruin, ruins |
| Main Entry: | contrivance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plan, fabrication |
| Synonyms: | angle, artifice, brainchild, coinage, design, dodge, expedient, formation, gimmick, intrigue, invention, inventiveness, machination, measure, plot, project, ruse, scheme, slant, stratagem, switch, trick, twist |
| Antonyms: | disorganization |
| Main Entry: | contrivance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gadget |
| Synonyms: | apparatus, appliance, brainchild, coinage, contraption, convenience, creation, device, discovery, engine, equipment, gear, gimcrack, harness, implement, instrument, invention, machine, material, mechanism, tackle, thingamabob, thingamajig, tool, utensil, whatsis, widget |
| Main Entry: | cutting edge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leading position |
| Synonyms: | advance guard, advancement, avant-garde, fore, forefront, front, front line, innovation, invention, leading edge, new wave, newest technology, pioneer, point, spearhead, van, vanguard |
| Main Entry: | device |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instrument, tool |
| Synonyms: | Rube Goldberg invention, accessory, agent, apparatus, appliance, arrangement, article, construction, contraption, contrivance, creation, doohickey, equipment, expedient, gadget, gear, gimmick, implement, invention, machine, makeshift, material, means, mechanism, medium, outfit, resort, resource, rigging, shift, tackle, thingamabob, utensil, whatchamacallit, whatnot, whatsit |
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