tinker
عامل غير بارع
definition
verb
he spent hours tinkering with the car
attempt to repair or improve something in a casual or desultory way, often to no useful effect.
noun
The tinkers live by mending pots and pans, telling fortunes and selling horses and ponies at the various fairs throughout the country.
(especially in former times) a person who travels from place to place mending metal utensils as a way of making a living.
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.
an act of attempting to repair something.
translation of 'tinker'
verb
عمل بغير براعة,
أصلح بغير براعة,
أصلح الصفائح,
شغل نفسه بشيء ما,
زور,
شوه
noun
عفريت,
سمكري متجول,
بوهيمي متجول,
متجول,
متعدد الحرف,
عامل غير بارع
example
And one person described Gaelic as ‘the 'tinker' 's language ’, so that there's obviously some sort of snobbery about the language going on there.
The more confident 'tinker' may find sport in discharging large capacitors with a well insulated screwdriver (always use an old or borrowed one as this can result in quite nasty pitting of the tip).
This week, one of his past works, Petra - the story of a soldier, a witch and a 'tinker' helping a young woman to explain to her son why he is now a ghost - is revisited as part of the Glasgow West End Festival.
Fresh from the day's rehearsals as Hester Swane, the 'tinker' 's daughter whom she will play for 14 weeks at Wyndhams Theatre, in the West End, Hunter explains the appeal of treading the boards.
Christopher Sly, a drunken old 'tinker' , is conned into watching The Taming of the Shrew as it is presented by a company of players.
So this week we salute Valentine: 'tinker' , tailor, soldier, priest and, above all, patron saint of card manufacturers.
It was in this location that a 'tinker' 's body was once found, giving the place the name of the ‘Murder Hole’.
The old 'tinker' took a stick of solder from a bag at his side and laid its tip against where the edges of the tube and the circle met.
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.
Finally, she was joined by an old bearded 'tinker' who had come down to the shore with his heavy canvas bag of tradesman's tools.
The other real trouble - involving violence and vandalism in addition to the usual epidemic of thefts - came from Irish 'tinkers' , about whom I blogged here, but failed to mention the manner of their departure.
She then strikes a bargain with a priest who, although not in the habit of marrying 'tinkers' , says he'll do the job for a small fee and a tin can.
I've been 'tinkering' a bit, so do please tell me if you have any difficulty posting comments here or linking to any part of this site.
The Government simply 'tinkers' a bit at the edges with a budget surplus or deficit that runs at a little over one per cent of GDP - neither here nor there.
For the first time in his life, Yllek felt a sense of awe and wonder regarding his native city, and began to understand the underlying truth behind the stories borne by travelling 'tinkers' and bards through the outlying lands.
How can we sensibly plan for our retirement when the fundamentals are constantly 'tinkered' with and the goalposts keep being moved?
In the early '50s, Bate's parents, Bev and Viv (or Viv and Bev-no one can say for sure), swapped him to unwary 'tinkers' for a three-legged dog.
In Scotland and Ireland gypsies were often called 'tinkers' because of their similar wandering life-style.
While the motion was 'tinkered' with, the decision was made to reject the draft plan.
Blogging to me is as much about 'tinkering' with the technology as it is about writing interesting articles on a regular basis.
The travelling folk, or 'tinkers' , were often treated as second-class citizens, with heartbreaking consequences.
I started on motorcycles, but after two years as a mechanic in the air force I thought I'd make more money 'tinkering' with cars.
But critics argue the flag is the latest attempt to wrest control from consumers, stifle innovation, create inconvenience, turn 'tinkerers' into criminals and raise prices - all for a technology that won't stop piracy anyway.
We shouldn't be 'tinkering' with the checks and balances our founding fathers put in this constitution.
Luckily, I was 'tinkering' with a design for a different site and I've decided to steal that for my re-design.
The teenaged Cure played jagged, edgy pop songs before the group 'tinkered' their way upwards into a more complex and competent machine.
I'm not convinced that people are going to spend that much time 'tinkering' with their searches.
In fact, in his spare time, he started 'tinkering' a bit with some metalwork for just such a rifle.
Solutions do not lie in 'tinkering' with the system, fiddling while Earth burns.
Occasionally, it is 'tinkered' with but there are few profound adaptations.
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