tinker
டிங்கர்
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'
தகர வேளைக்காரர்
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.
So this week we salute Valentine: 'tinker' , tailor, soldier, priest and, above all, patron saint of card manufacturers.
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.
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’.
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.
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 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.
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).
A tantalising childhood image was of nomad 'tinkers' who came trailing families and children, and disappeared as suddenly beyond the horizon.
In fact, in his spare time, he started 'tinkering' a bit with some metalwork for just such a rifle.
I'm not convinced that people are going to spend that much time 'tinkering' with their searches.
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.
Occasionally, it is 'tinkered' with but there are few profound adaptations.
Obviously, 'tinkerers' have been opening up gadgets for centuries and mucking with them.
Luckily, I was 'tinkering' with a design for a different site and I've decided to steal that for my re-design.
Probably the image was 'tinkered' with a bit to bring out the highlights, but it's impressive nonetheless.
But are the 'tinkers' only using him and to what ends?
More than mere 'tinkerers' , record-breakers push the world of possibility beyond the borders of perceived reality.
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.
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.
In Scotland and Ireland gypsies were often called 'tinkers' because of their similar wandering life-style.
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.
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.
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.
Usually, my second drafts involve 'tinkering' with what's already there and straightening out sentences.
She enjoys sitting on the counter as I'm 'tinkering' with something, and she'll often lend a paw to stir something.
While the motion was 'tinkered' with, the decision was made to reject the draft plan.
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