Evolution is a tinkerer and not an engineer.
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Tinkerer
//ˈtɪŋk.ɚ.ɚ//
Synonyms for "tinkerer" (3 found)
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8 translations across 8 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 修補匠 /修补匠 noun (person who tinkers with things)
Esperanto
1 entries- ladisto noun (person who tinkers with things)
Finnish
1 entries- nikkari noun (person who tinkers with things)
French
1 entries- ferblantier noun (person who tinkers with things)
German
1 entries- Tüftler noun (person who tinkers with things)
Italian
1 entries- pensatore noun (person who tinkers with things)
Russian
1 entries- уме́лец noun (person who tinkers with things)
Turkish
1 entries- tamirci noun (person who tinkers with things)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Part of why both books dragged on so long is that Mr. Talese, who once worked for The New York Times, is a perfectionist, an obsessive tinkerer and rewriter, and also a famously meticulous reporter and researcher who spurns devices like composite characters and faked identities.
Source: wiktionary
Make magazine, which celebrates “your right to tweak, hack and bend any technology to your own will,” has joined with the New York Hall of Science to gather more than 500 of the craftiest inventors, artists, technology enthusiasts, tinkerers and hobbyists to share their expertise.
Source: wiktionary
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