Dictionary entry

Tinker

Pronunciation: /ˈtɪŋkə/

Pronunciation

/ˈtɪŋkə/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) ခြေသလုံးအိမ်တိုင်သွားလာနေသူ။ အရပ်တကာလှည့်၍အိုးပေါက်ဖာသူ။ ကလိသည်။ ဆတ်ဆော့သည်။

Definition

tinker /'tÇŋkǝ(r)/ n (က) ေျခသလံုးအိမ္တိုင္ သြားလာေနသူ။ a tinker woman. (ခ) (esp formerly) အရပ္တကာလွည့္၍ အိုးေပါက္ ဖာသူ။ v ~ (with sth) ကလိသည္။ ဆတ္ေဆာ့သည္။ He likes tinkering with old radios. ❍ Who's been tinkering (around) with the wiring? ❍ ( fig ) Tinkering with the tax system won't solve the country's economic problems.

Examples

  1. [tinker with] : He spends hours tinkering around with car engines.
  2. Problems can arise when management structures are tinkered with.