tinker in English

noun
1
(especially in former times) a person who travels from place to place mending metal utensils as a way of making a living.
The tinkers live by mending pots and pans, telling fortunes and selling horses and ponies at the various fairs throughout the country.
2
an act of attempting to repair something.
I had a brief tinker with my blog template earlier, really to just try and figure out which lines relate to which part of the screen.
verb
1
attempt to repair or improve something in a casual or desultory way, often to no useful effect.
he spent hours tinkering with the car
synonyms:fiddle withadjustfixtry to mendplay about withfool withfutz withtamper withinterfere withmess about withmeddle with
noun
  • tinkerer
verb

Use "tinker" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "tinker" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "tinker", or refer to the context using the word "tinker" in the English Dictionary.

1. Don't tinker with the TV.

2. Don't tinker with my television.

3. Don't tinker with my camera.

4. Don't be such a tinker.

5. He likes to tinker with radios.

6. Tinker Taylor drank off his glass and departed.

7. Farce likes to tinker with such taboos.

8. Please don't tinker with my car engine.

9. I don't wanna be just a stupid tinker!

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12. There was Tinker, sitting there, cheerful as you please.

13. Congress is likely to tinker with it, probably soon.

14. We'll build up those tinker muscles in no time.

15. People also tinker with the alignment of cell data.

16. We'd go to his workshop and tinker, build a toy.

17. To learn how to craft baskets, a tinker must read the book "Making Valuables with Basket weaving", which can be purchased from the Gargoyle Tinker NPC located in the tinker shop in the Royal City in Ter Mur.

18. My alchemists continually tinker with their recipe for oil of vitriol.

19. We can not do without his cunning, or his tinker friends.

20. In the studio, there was time to reflect, to tinker.

21. I had a tinker at your radio, but I can't mend it.

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23. Braver loves to tinker and create, being something of a mad scientist much like his contemporary Wheeljack

24. Instead they prefer simply to tinker with the particular mechanisms advocated for controlling corporate managerial power.

25. And I said to Kun, " Kun go forth and tinker me a prototype rain gauge thingie. "

26. I'll just have a tinker with the television and see if I can get it to work.

27. Give my husband an old motorbike to tinker with and he's as happy as the day is long.

28. 20 It is not enough to tinker at the edges; our objective must be to reconstruct the entire system.

29. They discuss the flowers, and the tinker says that he has a customer who wants to raise Chrysanthemums

30. It is not enough to tinker at the edges; our objective must be to reconstruct the entire system.

31. The tinker plainly knew what she was about, because there was not one single piece of junk to be seen.

32. The Tinker test would favor the students as long as there was no substantial or material disruption of schooling.

33. It’s a good little car, but lately its Bellyachings have sent me out to the driveway to tinker under the hood

34. Among her prize-winning stock is Bickels Tinker Toy, which she says is one of the smallest miniatures in the world.

35. Looking hard at the castle, sketchbook in hand, I allowed the corner of my eye to rove the tinker camp.

36. These are national products and we cannot tinker with them by introducing ambiguous definitions, which is exactly what we have done today.

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41. The iPhone was the first phone that a Luddite could figure out in seconds and a hacker could tinker around with for endless hours.

42. 15 And not until mid-1993 will any incoming government get a chance to tinker with the existing composition of the Board of Governors.

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44. And not until mid-1993 will any incoming government get a chance to tinker with the existing composition of the Board of Governors.

45. Dangerous heroes against them are nukers and disablers (Tinker, Zeus, Atropos, Rhasta), but they can manage surviving vs them if they're good enough.

46. It is also known as Tinker's butterflyfish, after Spencer W. Tinker who discovered it in 1949, trapping them in fish traps at 90 feet (27 m) off Oahu, Hawaii.

47. Non-Clonking” study comparing mountains of data, you could not eliminate the possibility that clonkers were naturally prone to more actively fish and tinker with their presentation than non-clonkers

48. Besides opening the Codec panel to tinker with audio and video properties, the tray menu can also launch Media Player Classic, open the Windows audio and display properties panels, set the audio

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50. Fortunately, here’s something to give me – and a number of other old codgers (or Codgerettes?) – a mental blast from the past, with the release of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (based on the