Synonym: condition, fix, mend, patch up, repair, service. Similar words: banker, linked, hunker down, hunkered down, investment banker, sunken, monkey, blanket. Meaning: ['tɪŋkə(r)] 
n. 1. a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts 2. formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living 3. small mackerel found nearly worldwide. v. 1. do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly 2. work as a tinker or tinkerer 3. try to fix or mend.
n. 1. a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts 2. formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living 3. small mackerel found nearly worldwide. v. 1. do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly 2. work as a tinker or tinkerer 3. try to fix or mend. 
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31. Being able to tinker with the molecular master switch for long-term recall also raises the notion of a pill to ramp up memory capacity in the average person.
32. The tinker passes the alley every day, crying out for business.
33. For his part, Mr McCarthy continued to tinker away at a truly thinking machine at Stanford. He never quite saw his dream realised.
34. "Tinker Bell, " he called softly, after making sure that the children were asleep, "Tink, where are you?
35. Companies tinker with today's products rather than pay researchers to think big thoughts.
36. It's also worth noting that various Web sites will tinker with Boolean logic to create their own versions of the search language.
37. Why, he has gone the vole - has been soldier, ballad - singer, traveling tinker and is now a beggar.
38. The cognitive psychologist is like the tinker who wants to know how a clock works.
39. In May 1943, I was sent to Tinker Field at Oklahoma and then to Grand Island, Neb., and a year later to Kearney (Neb.) for the rest of my service, so I never got out of the Dust Bowl.
39. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and make good sentences.
40. Other scientists tinker with Darwin by borrowing a page from the creationists'book.
41. Finding good code to read used to be hard, because there were few large programs available in source for fledgeling hackers to read and tinker with.
42. He likes to tinker ( away ) at broken gadgets.
43. "Traders are now thinking that China might at least tinker with the value of their currency as well," said Carol Hurley, senior market strategist at Lind-Waldock, a futures brokerage house in Chicago.
44. It is also because politicians a strong desire to tinker piecemeal.
45. Because he is a tinker, and a poor man, he is despised, and cannot have justice.
46. Not only are there references to Christ and the Bible in her first prose book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, but also to Judaism, Buddhism, Sufism, and even Eskimo spirituality.
47. With the synthetic approach, you can start to think of the cell as a laboratory where you can tinker around and really ask questions about the basic principles of genetic circuit design.
48. When close to the whale, in the very death-lock of the fight, he handled his unpitying lance coolly and offhandedly as a whistling tinker his hammer.
49. Another tempting option for policy - makers is to tinker with bank regulation.