(n.) The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.
(n.) The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement.
Example Sentences:
(1) "If there is some kind of contrived scheme or vehicle, ie it's obvious that the purpose of the scheme is to avoid paying VAT and it's taking advantage of a loophole and we consider that tax is actually owed on the scheme, rather than just being a case of sensible tax planning … we can make the judgment that this is not legitimate tax planning.
(2) Here they led within 90 seconds against a team whose fragility has been all too clear this term, and still contrived to wilt almost apologetically.
(3) And I'll be catching several buzzy acts who I contrived to miss last year – Ivo Graham, Ursula Burns, Trygve (Squidboy) Wakenshaw, Phil Wang, Paul Currie.
(4) Rafael Benítez must contrive a way of picking this team up, as well as a starting lineup who are relatively fresh for Elland Road and a cup tie that once would have stirred the senses.
(5) When Grayson remarks to the men he meets that his transvestism allows him enough distance from maleness to view it as an observer, rather than bristle they nod, quietly ponder for a moment and then step back themselves, apparently accepting that maleness is such a weird contrivance that to look at it with critical eyes is Not Even A Thing.
(6) Capello's men have contrived to fail more severely than the line‑up beaten 4-2 by Uruguay in 1954.
(7) Support is provided by intercostal angiography, and by observations upon normal anatomy, the pathological anatomy of mature scoliotic spines and the anatomy of contrived scoliosis in normal spines.
(8) The natural and the contrived social experiments are reviewed as well as the issue of needed research on the effects of regulation on science and on the protection of privacy.
(9) Even after the Daily Mail's Jack Tinker (obituary, October 29 1996) contrived for Shulman's career as a theatre critic to be brought to an end in 1991, he continued to write a column for the Evening Standard on art affairs - until he was 83.
(10) Some patients find that the risk of a spontaneous attack is lessened following a self-induced seizure and can therefore contrive their fits to occur only in situations which are safe and convenient.
(11) Some contrivances in anastomosing a conduit were also proposed to achieve an excellent result.
(12) "It's more contrived in terms of 'good girl gone bad' or 'I'm so edgy – I'm twerking in this context.'
(13) Always a contrived fiction, this sequence juxtaposes a poignant fantasy of a fully fit presenter with the merciless world of hard news.
(14) A coded panel of 100 contrived dried blood spots prepared form well characterised anti-HIV-1 and anti-HIV-2 positive sera and an anti-HIV negative serum was distributed to eight testing centres.
(15) Despite papal fiction being such a crowded church, Harris, in Conclave , contrives a twist involving the number of cardinal-electors that seems to me completely new, showing that the genre still has possibilities.
(16) Although oral administration volume is limited in small animal model, enhancing its antitumor effect may be possible in clinical application by contriving the method of administration.
(17) Events went from bad to ridiculous for the Redbirds in the second inning, when Stephen Drew popped the ball up into the infield and catcher Yadier Molina and pitcher Adam Wainwright both moved towards the ball and then contrived to call each other off and watched the ball drop harmlessly between them.
(18) "We will dedicate our seventh goal to our wives, and the eighth to our dogs," quipped one player, while the manager, Jupp Derwall, promised that if his team contrived to lose he would "jump on the first train back to Munich".
(19) The tasks were presented in various ways: by means of a table-top simulation on which traffic scenarios had been contrived; by means of photographs of road situations; and by taking the children to real-world sites in the streets near their schools.
(20) The amendment left the government facing the prospect of scuttling its own legislation to give the tax office greater powers to stop global companies using “artificial or contrived arrangements” to avoid tax obligations.
Widget
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, you can't draw any conclusions at all about how many people in country Z use Widget A from that "market share" figure.
(2) moDays=5;moColourScheme="default";moFSSI=352793;moDomain="www.metoffice.gov.uk";moMapDisplay="side";moMapsRequired="Precip Rate LR";moTemperatureUnits="C";moSpeedUnits="M";moShowWind="true";moShowUV="true";moShowFeelsLike="true";moAllowUserLocation="true";moStartupLanguage="en";moSpecificHeight="0";moSpecificWidth="0"; This Weather Widget is provided by the Met Office The Met Office forecasts continuing rain for the rest of the day over much of the north, persisting overnight and only easing at dawn when the front will move off, leaving a trail of scattered showers.
(3) If the market is expanding, then some are going to new users who didn't previously have Widgets.
(4) It will be more like developers updating their Android smartphone apps to add Wear widgets.
(5) What they look at is unit labour costs – how much you need to pay staff to make one unit of output: a widget, say, or a bit of software.
(6) In reality, you'll see something in between: some Widgets go to new users, and some go to existing users.
(7) If a factory manufacturing widgets has a Quality Assurance Programme, is it not reasonable to believe that a hospital whose product is patient care should also have such a programme?
(8) That version of politics is less and less complicated, for all the worms and widgets and totemic American spin doctors imported at vast expense .
(9) You can find your nearest event here: March finder widget Find your nearest climate march The events are designed to put pressure on the leaders from almost 200 countries who will meet in Paris to thrash out a new deal on limiting greenhouse gas emissions post-2020.
(10) They are interactive and updated and you can interact with them directly - Federighi demonstrates an eBay widget that he can use to bid directly from the Notification Centre.
(11) This clever little widget is effectively our digital circulation map today.
(12) During a presentation at the Manchester Media Festival today, Davie displayed images of what the service might look like, with embeddable widgets for websites and a localised search facility to seek out content by postcode.
(13) Android is open for anyone to use, which the search engine giant hopes will lead to the creation of hundreds of applications - or widgets - which G1 owners will be able to download from a dedicated online marketplace.
(14) EvolveSMS takes a different tack: replacing the default messaging app with an impressively-usable multimedia tool – complete with useful widgets and lockscreen feature.
(15) Initially centred around an existing project in Newcastle working with young runaways, the solution will use mobile, web, app and widget technology to give supporters a real-time thank you's and updates from a local project worker.
(16) Only in the specific case where the market is saturated - that is, everyone who wants a Widget has one, so that now the market is essentially just replacements - does market share probably tally with "installed base".
(17) - There was the widget we built to allow 23,000 Guardian readers to help us sort through hundreds of thousands of documents relating to MPs expenses.
(18) Consider all the variables, even if we only look at country Z - where, you'll recall, 20m use Widget A, 50m have B, and 30m have C. Let's also suppose that the market share numbers for the latest quarter - 80% A, 15% B, 5% C - was spread among 10m units.
(19) It doesn't need to be the whole device, so if there is a patent on one small widget in a washing machine, the whole thing attracts only 10% tax.
(20) On 10 September , tech firms including Etsy, FourSquare, KickStarter, Mozilla, Reddit and Vimeo will install a widget on their sites to show how they believe the internet would look if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) overturns “net neutrality” rules.