Translation for 'contraption' from English to Bulgarian

contraption {noun} [coll.]

измишльотина {ж} [за сложен, но ненужен уред]

джаджа {ж} [разг.] [пренебр.] [за прекалено сложен, но ненужен уред]

• That occasioned by neglect, marginalisation, repression, discrimination and deprivations, the story of Oro participation in the contraption called Nigeria has been one of stagnation and under development.
• On his 14th birthday, Porgie launches his contraption.
• Alone with the priest's contraption, Moulin enters and pushes a red button, which closes and locks the door, trapping him inside.
• In the UK, the term "Heath Robinson contraption" gained dictionary recognition around 1912.
• A Rube Goldberg machine, named after American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is a chain reaction–type machine or contraption intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and (impractically) overly complicated way.

• A local peculiarity (though also found in other wine-growing areas of the region) is the Klapotez, a traditional wooden contraption which remotely resembles a windmill from the North American plains, and is intended to scare birds away.
• A whirligig is a punitive or torture contraption comprising a suspended cage-like device. The victim would be placed in the cage, which was spun violently in order to cause severe nausea.
• The Floam Shape Shop was a contraption into which Floam was inserted and then pushed out in various shapes. It included different molds and front rings. This was first sold in 1995.
• A feeder is a vessel or contraption used by beekeepers to feed pollen or honey (or substitutes) to honey bees from a honey bee colony.
• In the Sunnydale High School basement, Spike is strapped to circular contraption and the robed figures cut designs into Spike's skin.

• Initially the device was intended as a black-and-white domed contraption with a blue light on top.
• In a construction puzzle you have to build (assemble) a technical contraption. This may be a static object (such as a bridge) or a mechanical object (like a machine).
• But to simulate the zero gravity, he is hooked onto a contraption that rotates him upside down, and he has to try various activities.
• Woody Fraser would reuse this pie contraption in his later "Family Challenge".
• Fiore and DeBlanc wait in the motel room. The phone contraption begins to ring. They stare motionless at the phone as it rings and rings.

• The design features cogs wheels that could be inside a clock, watch or other contraption.
• In 1788 the sluice collapsed, and in 1792 a new wooden sluice was set up, despite efforts to use brick or stone: the structure collapsed again in 1803, to be replaced by a wooden contraption in 1805.
• is set in a stylised travelling space contraption where William the Wizard and Sparkles the Fairy are joined by their speedy courier friend, Digby Dash.
• The contraption may be a simple cardboard tube, or an open ended box that fits around the bottom camera.
• He confronts her about the tiki and she admits that she is the one who replaced the weight on the contraption.