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# tinker

«tinker» in Mova's school dictionary: **a travelling person who mends pots and pans** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tinker is a travelling person who mends pots and pans. (old use) [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tinker/#m2)

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tinker» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tinker/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.