Meanings (ES + gloss)
aparato
A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
artificio • artimaña • elucubración • estratagema
A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective.
And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance.
I mean to give something as slight and inexpensive as possible; but I have been so long out of the way of these things, that I am really quite at a loss, and must throw myself on y…
artefacto • artilugio • elucubración
Something overly artful or artificial.
The Harry Hamlin character is a bit of a hypochondriac, a contrivance that exists for the sole purpose of bringing him into contact with the confused young doctor at the clinic.
When the stamens of a flower suddenly spring towards the pistil, or slowly move one after the other towards it, the contrivance seems adapted solely to ensure self-fertilisation; a…
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