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# tinker

noun (tinkers); verb (tinker, tinkers, tinkered, tinkering)

«tinker» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A tinker is a travelling person who mends pots and pans. (old use) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tinker/#m1)
2. To tinker is to fiddle with something, trying to mend or adjust it, often without much skill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tinker/#m2)

### In the lessons

in tales a tinker comes to the village to mend kettles; in everyday talk people tinker with a machine

### Examples

- The tinker mended our kettle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tinker/#x1)
- Dad likes to tinker with old bikes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tinker/#x2)
- I spent an hour tinkering with the broken clock. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tinker/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tinker» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tinker/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tinker» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tinker.html) on Mova free.