| NOUN | artifact | appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gizmo, gismo, widget | a device or control that is very useful for a particular job |
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| artifact | appliance | durable goods for home or office use |
| Sounds | ahplay'ahns | |
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| Rhymes | abeyance ... virulence: 267 rhymes with ahns... | |
| Meaning | A device or control that is very useful for a particular job. | |
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| Synonyms | contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gizmo, gismo, widget | |
| Narrower | gadgetry | appliances collectively |
| gimbal | An appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips | |
| injector | A contrivance for injecting (e.g., water into the boiler of a steam engine or particles into an accelerator etc.) | |
| mod con | modern convenience | |
| Broader | device | An instrumentality invented for a particular purpose |
| Catalan | enginy | |
| Spanish | ingenio | |
| Meaning | durable goods for home or office use. | |
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| Narrower | dryer, drier | An appliance that removes moisture |
| home appliance, household appliance | An appliance that does a particular job in the home | |
| Broader | durables, durable goods, consumer durables | consumer goods that are not destroyed by use |
| Catalan | aparell | |
| Spanish | aparato | |
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