tinker
അറ്റകുറ്റപ്പണികൾ
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.
example
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 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.
So this week we salute Valentine: 'tinker' , tailor, soldier, priest and, above all, patron saint of card manufacturers.
Christopher Sly, a drunken old 'tinker' , is conned into watching The Taming of the Shrew as it is presented by a company of players.
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.
It was in this location that a 'tinker' 's body was once found, giving the place the name of the ‘Murder Hole’.
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.
Obviously, 'tinkerers' have been opening up gadgets for centuries and mucking with them.
The 'tinkers' live by mending pots and pans, telling fortunes and selling horses and ponies at the various fairs throughout the country.
I'm not convinced that people are going to spend that much time 'tinkering' with their searches.
In the early 1980s the map was 'tinkered' with, forcing both the Midlands and the South into splitting their large regions into 2 sub-regions.
Blogging to me is as much about 'tinkering' with the technology as it is about writing interesting articles on a regular basis.
Not knowing what to make of this strange jargon, I was uncertain as to what kind of music would soon be blaring out of the powerful-looking speakers being 'tinkered' with.
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.
And just across the waters of the Flash at Aspull Common a similar number of 'tinkers' have moved in with their lorries, vans and caravans using their camp as a base for carrying out driveway laying and paving work in the area.
Occasionally, it is 'tinkered' with but there are few profound adaptations.
Probably the image was 'tinkered' with a bit to bring out the highlights, but it's impressive nonetheless.
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.
But are the 'tinkers' only using him and to what ends?
While the motion was 'tinkered' with, the decision was made to reject the draft plan.
Some villager somewhere is out working in front of his garage, 'tinkering' with something as he usually is.
Quite near us, in Wigton, just beyond the cemetery, was a place called Black Tippoe and that was where gypsies and 'tinkers' used to come and winter there.
The gypsies or 'tinkers' as they were better known walked around the fair the whole day trying to sell ponnies, strainers and tin cans to reluctant buyers.
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.
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.
The travelling folk, or 'tinkers' , were often treated as second-class citizens, with heartbreaking consequences.
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