Difference between Invent and Contrive

INVENT vs CONTRIVE: VERB

Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort
To design a new process or mechanism.
To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
To come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.
Make up something artificial or untrue

Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort
Put or send forth
Make or work out a plan for; devise
To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.
To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.

To make up; fabricate.
To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine.
To produce or contrive (something previously unknown) by the use of ingenuity or imagination.
To come or light upon; to meet; to find.
To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense

Synonyms 2 and 3. Discover, Invent. See discover and invention.
In general, to produce by contrivance; fabricate; concoet; devise: as, to invent the plot of a story; to invent an excuse or a falsehood.
Concoct something artificial or untrue
To find out by original study or contrivance; create by a new use or combination of means; devise the form, construction, composition, method, or principle of.
To come upon; light upon; meet with; find.

Devise
Make or work out a plan for
To form schemes or designs; plan; scheme.
Synonyms To design, project, plot, concoct, hatch, form, frame, brew.
To manage, by a device, stratagem, plan, or scheme: with an infinitive as object: as, he contrived to gain his point.
To invent; devise; plan.
To make out; discover; imagine: as, what had become of him I could not contrive.
To wear away; spend.

Find, Discover, Improvise, Develop, Create, Reinvent, Excogitate, Cook up, Make up, Formulate, Forge, Manufacture, Fabricate, Devise, Contrive

Conceive, Manipulate, Connive, Concoct, Weave, Project, Excogitate, Plan, Design, Cast, Throw, Formulate, Forge, Devise, Invent

Spin, Lie, Imagine, Construct, Find, Discover, Improvise, Develop, Create, Make up, Formulate, Forge, Manufacture, Devise, Contrive

Feign, Conceive, Manipulate, Connive, Concoct, Weave, Project, Plan, Design, Cast, Throw, Formulate, Forge, Devise, Invent

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Dr Gray had no duty to invent anything.
Invent words containing a Latin root and affixes.
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He didn't invent heroism and Bill and Hillary didn't invent a good presidency.
The intellectuals are interesting, they invent circuits, they invent the internet.
To invent a new gadget, the player must have a clear idea of what he wants to invent and how it will work.
If you could invent anything, what would you invent?

The survival of our cultures requires that we contrive to get well.
In this case, we will contrive a sensitivity value for the test.
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Injurious, pernicious, unfavorable, ures, contrive ways, direct affairs, pull baneful, very bad.
Could you contrive no way to get him into our hands?
He never had any need to plan or contrive.
'You can contrive for me all that's necessary?'.
At bed, ye contrive to be obtuse (7).
I will contrive to bring you the answer.
This age, could contrive to walk that much.