different between brew vs contrivance

English

Etymology 1

Middle English brewen, from Old English br?owan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwan?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?rewh?-.

Cognate withDutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek ????? (phréar, “well”), Latin ferv?re (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit ??????? (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley

Pronunciation

• enPR: bro?o, IPA^(key): /b?u?/
• • (Wales) IPA^(key): /b????/
• Rhymes: -u?

Verb

brew (third-person singular simple present brews, present participle brewing, simple past and past participle brewed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
   • 1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains, Penguin, 1942, Chapter Eleven, p. 113,^[1]

     Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]

2. (transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III, Scene 5,^[2]

     Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.

3. (transitive, intransitive) To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
5. (transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing

   Synonyms: contrive, plot, hatch

   • 1634, John Milton, Comus, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, London: Humphrey Mosely, 1645, p. 106,^[3]

     Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […]

6. (intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Scene 4,^[4]

     I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink […]

7. (intransitive, of an unwelcome event) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene 5,^[5]

     There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
8. (transitive, obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.

Translations

Derived terms

• brewage
• brewer
• brewery
• brewhouse

Noun

brew (plural brews)

2. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
   1. (slang) A single serving (can, bottle, etc.) of beer.
   2. (Britain, slang) A cup of tea.

Translations

Etymology 2

Middle English brewe (“eyebrow”), from Old English bru (“eyebrow”). Doublet of brow

Noun

brew (plural brews)

1. (Britain, dialect) An overhanging hill or cliff.

Translations

Anagrams

• BWER

Middle English

Verb

brew

1. Alternative form of brewen

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bry, from Proto-Indo-European *h?b?rúHs

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br?f/

Noun

brew f

1. eyebrow

Declension

Further reading

• brew in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• brew in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

contrive +? -ance

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?t?a?.v?ns/

Noun

contrivance (plural contrivances)

1. a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task
2. a means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 266b.

     And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance.

3. something overly artful or artificial

Synonyms

• contraption

Related terms

• contrive

Translations

Further reading

• contrivance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• contrivance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.