tinker
tamircilik
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
üstünkörü tamir etmek
noun
tenekeci,
tamircilik,
tamirci
example
Christopher Sly, a drunken old 'tinker' , is conned into watching The Taming of the Shrew as it is presented by a company of players.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
It was in this location that a 'tinker' 's body was once found, giving the place the name of the ‘Murder Hole’.
After 'tinkering' with the controls for some time, I did find the right settings that I was very comfortable with.
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.
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.
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.
While the motion was 'tinkered' with, the decision was made to reject the draft plan.
A tantalising childhood image was of nomad 'tinkers' who came trailing families and children, and disappeared as suddenly beyond the horizon.
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.
The teenaged Cure played jagged, edgy pop songs before the group 'tinkered' their way upwards into a more complex and competent machine.
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.
More than mere 'tinkerers' , record-breakers push the world of possibility beyond the borders of perceived reality.
I suddenly realized that here I, like the 'tinkers' of whom Della had been so suspicious, was part of a persecuted minority.
A particular type of graphic art involving wire and metalworking was produced by Slovak 'tinkers' from the Upper Vah River Valley or Spis.
In Scotland and Ireland gypsies were often called 'tinkers' because of their similar wandering life-style.
Some villager somewhere is out working in front of his garage, 'tinkering' with something as he usually is.
The travelling folk, or 'tinkers' , were often treated as second-class citizens, with heartbreaking consequences.
Probably the image was 'tinkered' with a bit to bring out the highlights, but it's impressive nonetheless.
Wicketkeepers are notorious 'tinkerers' , especially with regard to their kit.
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.
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