Definitions
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- noun
Agent noun oftinker ; one who tinkers with things. - noun A
meddler .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend
- noun a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts
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Examples
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The tinkerer is personified in the therapist and the being who is the World is represented by George Orr (he in fact holds the power of creation in his hands, but is ironically in power of Haber himself).
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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The tinkerer is personified in the therapist and the being who is the World is represented by George Orr (he in fact holds the power of creation in his hands, but is ironically in power of Haber himself).
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Jack Carter, the Houston big-game hunter and bullet tinkerer, is hunting in a better world now, but his Trophy Bonded bullets are alive and well and being manufactured by Federal and sold to handloaders through Speer Bullets.
David E. 2005
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On a recent weekend, Sari Harris - a self-described "tinkerer" - spent close to $1,000 to make her own bamboo bike.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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On a recent weekend, Sari Harris - a self-described "tinkerer" - spent close to $1,000 to make her own bamboo bike.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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Evolution has been famously described as a tinkerer, building new structures out of old parts.
David Sloan Wilson: Atheism as a Stealth Religion IV: The Transformation of the Obvious 2008
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Better still, he realizes it needs to go a lot further to get this technology past the 'tinkerer' phase which it is in now.
Blogging with my Gnomies... Chris Heuer 2005
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Better still, he realizes it needs to go a lot further to get this technology past the 'tinkerer' phase which it is in now.
Archive 2005-06-19 Chris Heuer 2005
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What really gets me about Ancelotti is that he's not a "tinkerer" in any sense.
Chelsea Blog 2010
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What really gets me about Ancelotti is that he's not a "tinkerer" in any sense.
Chelsea Blog 2010
coastwise commented on the word tinkerer
who says a tinkerer is unskilled?
July 22, 2008
plethora commented on the word tinkerer
WeirdNET cannot be trusted.
July 22, 2008
bilby commented on the word tinkerer
Bit of discussion a while back on tinker, coastwise.
July 22, 2008