tinker
noun (tinkers); verb (tinker, tinkers, tinkered, tinkering)
Everyday
- A tinker is a travelling person who mends pots and pans. (old use) tree →
- To tinker is to fiddle with something, trying to mend or adjust it, often without much skill. tree →
In the lessons
in tales a tinker comes to the village to mend kettles; in everyday talk people tinker with a machine
Examples
- The tinker mended our kettle. tree →
- Dad likes to tinker with old bikes. tree →
- I spent an hour tinkering with the broken clock. tree →
Note
nothing for maths
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «tinker» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «tinker» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
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