tinker
ٹنکر
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.
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So this week we salute Valentine: 'tinker' , tailor, soldier, priest and, above all, patron saint of card manufacturers.
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.
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 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.
It was in this location that a 'tinker' 's body was once found, giving the place the name of the ‘Murder Hole’.
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 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.
Only rich 'tinkerers' could afford an automobile before Henry Ford developed an assembly line to make cars cheap and reliable enough for everyone.
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.
Some villager somewhere is out working in front of his garage, 'tinkering' with something as he usually is.
The teenaged Cure played jagged, edgy pop songs before the group 'tinkered' their way upwards into a more complex and competent machine.
Blogging to me is as much about 'tinkering' with the technology as it is about writing interesting articles on a regular basis.
Luckily, I was 'tinkering' with a design for a different site and I've decided to steal that for my re-design.
I suddenly realized that here I, like the 'tinkers' of whom Della had been so suspicious, was part of a persecuted minority.
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.
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.
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.
After 'tinkering' with the controls for some time, I did find the right settings that I was very comfortable with.
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.
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.
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.
How can we sensibly plan for our retirement when the fundamentals are constantly 'tinkered' with and the goalposts keep being moved?
Wicketkeepers are notorious 'tinkerers' , especially with regard to their kit.
In Scotland and Ireland gypsies were often called 'tinkers' because of their similar wandering life-style.
Usually, my second drafts involve 'tinkering' with what's already there and straightening out sentences.
I'm not convinced that people are going to spend that much time 'tinkering' with their searches.
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