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 →

2) To tinker is to fiddle with something, trying to mend or adjust it, often without much skill. tree →

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 →
• Dad likes to tinker with old bikes. tree →
• I spent an hour tinkering with the broken clock. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tinker» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.