Look up: tinker

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   Tinker
   Tinker is the nickname of a young Tyrannosaurus rex meaning tyrant lizard king) that was found near Belle Fourche, South Dakota, USA (in the Hell Creek Formation of western S.D.). Tinker's roughly 70%-complete fossilized skeleton dates from about 70 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period . This theropod (carnivorous dinosaur) was about 5 to 6 years old when it died; it was abut 20 feet long and may have weighed 1,200 pounds. This is about two-thirds the size of an adult T. rex. but...
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   Tinker
   A tinker is a person who mends things, the term especially applies to someone who mends pots, pans and kettles. In Scotland and Northern Ireland the term is often applied to Romanys.
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   tinker
   [n] - a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts 2. [n] - (British) an itinerant Gypsy 3. [v] - work as a tinker or tinkerer
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   Tinker
   Tink'er noun [ From Tink , because the tinker's way of proclaiming his trade is to beat a kettle, or because in his work he makes a tinkling noise. Johnson .] 1. A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware. 'Tailors and tinkers .' Piers Plowman. 2. One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work. 3. (Ordnance) A small ...
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   Tinker
   Tink'er transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Tinkered ; present participle & verbal noun Tinkering .] To mend or solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to mend.
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   Tinker
   Tink'er intransitive verb To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works.
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   tinker
   1. A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware. 'Tailors and tinkers.' ... 2. One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work. ... 3. A small mortar on the end of a staff. ... 4. <zoology> A young mackerel about two years old. The chub mackerel. ... The silversides. ... A skate. ... 5. <zoology> The razor-billed auk. ... Origin: Fr ...
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   Tinker
   `Tinker` or `Tinkers` may refer to: * Tinker, a travelling metalsmith * Irish Traveller, a nomadic or itinerant people of Irish origin * Tinker Air Force Base, located in Oklahoma * TINKER, a molecular dynamics software application and force field * `Tinker`, a novel by Wen Spencer
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   TINKER
   `TINKER` is a molecular modeling program with a complete and general package for molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics, with some special features for biopolymers. The heart of the TINKER package is a modular set of callable routines which allow the manipulation of coordinates and evaluation of potential energy and derivatives in a straightforward fashion. TINKER works on Windows, Mac, and Unix/Linux and its source code is available free of...
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    Tinker
    • (n.) A small mortar on the end of a staff. • (n.) A young mackerel about two years old. • (n.) The chub mackerel. • (n.) One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work. • (v. i.) To busy one`s self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works. • (n.) The silver...
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    tinker
    
    1. someone who is employed to repair broken things
    2. small mackerel found nearly worldwide
    
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