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tinker
Overview of noun tinker
The noun tinker has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. tinker, tinkerer -- (a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts)
2. tinker -- (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. chub mackerel, tinker, Scomber japonicus -- (small mackerel found nearly worldwide)
Overview of verb tinker
The verb tinker has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around -- (do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house")
2. tinker -- (work as a tinker or tinkerer)
3. tinker, fiddle -- (try to fix or mend; "Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's not working right"; "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tinker
3 senses of tinker
Sense 1
tinker, tinkerer
=> experimenter
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
tinker
=> itinerant, gypsy, gipsy
=> laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack
=> workman, workingman, working man, working person
=> employee
=> worker
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
chub mackerel, tinker, Scomber japonicus
=> mackerel
=> scombroid, scombroid fish
=> percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
=> spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian
=> teleost fish, teleost, teleostan
=> bony fish
=> fish
=> aquatic vertebrate
=> vertebrate, craniate
=> chordate
=> animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun tinker
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tinker
3 senses of tinker
Sense 1
tinker, tinkerer
=> experimenter
Sense 2
tinker
=> itinerant, gypsy, gipsy
Sense 3
chub mackerel, tinker, Scomber japonicus
=> mackerel
Antonyms of noun tinker
Member Holonyms of noun tinker
1 of 3 senses of tinker
Sense 3
chub mackerel, tinker, Scomber japonicus
MEMBER OF: Scomber, genus Scomber
Substance Holonyms of noun tinker
Part Holonyms of noun tinker
Member Meronyms of noun tinker
Substance Meronyms of noun tinker
Part Meronyms of noun tinker
Meronyms of noun tinker
Holonyms of noun tinker
1 of 3 senses of tinker
Sense 3
chub mackerel, tinker, Scomber japonicus
MEMBER OF: Scomber, genus Scomber
Attributes of noun tinker
Derived Forms of noun tinker
1 of 3 senses of tinker
Sense 1
tinker, tinkerer
RELATED TO>(verb) tinker#1
=> putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around
Domain of noun tinker
Domain Terms of noun tinker
Familiarity of noun tinker
tinker used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun tinker
3 senses of tinker
Sense 1
tinker, tinkerer
> experimenter
=> tinker, tinkerer
Sense 2
tinker
> itinerant, gypsy, gipsy
=> swagman, swagger, swaggie
=> tinker
Sense 3
chub mackerel, tinker, Scomber japonicus
> mackerel
=> common mackerel, shiner, Scomber scombrus
=> Spanish mackerel, Scomber colias
=> chub mackerel, tinker, Scomber japonicus
=> wahoo, Acanthocybium solandri
=> Spanish mackerel
Meronyms of noun tinker
3 senses of tinker
Sense 1
tinker, tinkerer
=> experimenter
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Sense 2
tinker
=> itinerant, gypsy, gipsy
=> laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack
=> workman, workingman, working man, working person
=> employee
=> worker
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Sense 3
chub mackerel, tinker, Scomber japonicus
=> mackerel
=> scombroid, scombroid fish
=> percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
=> spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian
=> teleost fish, teleost, teleostan
=> bony fish
=> fish
HAS PART: fish scale
HAS PART: roe
HAS PART: milt
HAS PART: lateral line, lateral line organ
HAS PART: fin
HAS PART: ray
HAS PART: tail fin, caudal fin
HAS PART: fishbone
=> aquatic vertebrate
HAS PART: flipper
=> vertebrate, craniate
HAS PART: belly
HAS PART: tail
HAS PART: dock
HAS PART: caudal appendage
HAS PART: rib, costa
HAS PART: costal cartilage
HAS PART: thorax, chest, pectus
HAS PART: sternum, breastbone
HAS PART: gladiolus, corpus sternum
HAS PART: manubrium
HAS PART: xiphoid process
HAS PART: thoracic aorta
HAS PART: thoracic vein, vena thoracica
HAS PART: gallbladder
HAS PART: area of cardiac dullness
HAS PART: pectoral, pectoral muscle, pectoralis, musculus pectoralis, pecs
HAS PART: chest cavity, thoracic cavity
HAS PART: mediastinum
HAS PART: breast
HAS PART: rib cage
HAS PART: vertebrate foot, pedal extremity
HAS PART: metatarsus
HAS PART: metatarsal
HAS PART: tarsus
HAS PART: cuboid bone
HAS PART: tarsal, tarsal bone
HAS PART: digit, dactyl
HAS PART: phalanx
HAS PART: nail
HAS PART: half-moon, lunula, lunule
HAS PART: matrix
=> chordate
=> animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
HAS SUBSTANCE: animal tissue
HAS PART: head, caput
HAS PART: muzzle
HAS PART: snout, neb
HAS PART: ear
HAS PART: vestibule of the ear
HAS PART: eardrum, tympanum, tympanic membrane, myringa
HAS PART: umbo
HAS PART: organ of hearing
HAS PART: fenestra
HAS PART: auricular artery, arteria auricularis
HAS PART: basilar artery, arteria basilaris
HAS PART: brain, encephalon
HAS PART: circle of Willis
HAS PART: communicating artery, arteria communicans
HAS PART: brain cell
HAS PART: neencephalon, neoencephalon
HAS PART: forebrain, prosencephalon
HAS PART: peduncle, cerebral peduncle
HAS PART: corpus callosum
HAS PART: telencephalon
HAS PART: cerebrum
HAS PART: fissure of Rolando, Rolando's fissure, central sulcus, sulcus centralis
HAS PART: fissure of Sylvius, Sylvian fissure, lateral cerebral sulcus, sulcus lateralis cerebri
HAS PART: hemisphere, cerebral hemisphere
HAS PART: cerebral cortex, cerebral mantle, pallium, cortex
HAS PART: Golgi's cell, Golgi cell
HAS PART: cortical area, cortical region
HAS PART: frontal lobe
HAS PART: frontal area, frontal cortex
HAS PART: frontal gyrus
HAS PART: precentral gyrus
HAS PART: prefrontal lobe
HAS PART: parietal lobe
HAS PART: parietal gyrus
HAS PART: postcentral gyrus
HAS PART: occipital lobe
HAS PART: calcarine sulcus, calcarine fissure
HAS PART: occipital gyrus
HAS PART: temporal lobe
HAS PART: temporal gyrus
HAS PART: amygdala, amygdaloid nucleus, corpus amygdaloideum
HAS PART: gyrus, convolution
HAS PART: diencephalon, interbrain, betweenbrain, thalmencephalon
HAS PART: mamillary body, mammillary body, corpus mamillare
HAS PART: infundibulum
HAS PART: third eye, pineal eye
HAS PART: optic nerve, nervus opticus, second cranial nerve, optic tract
HAS PART: pituitary, pituitary gland, pituitary body, hypophysis
HAS PART: hypophyseal stalk
HAS PART: anterior pituitary, anterior pituitary gland, adenohypophysis
HAS PART: pars distilis, pars anterior
HAS PART: posterior pituitary, posterior pituitary gland, neurohypophysis, pars nervosa
HAS PART: pars intermedia
HAS PART: basal ganglion
HAS PART: thalamus
HAS PART: geniculate body
HAS PART: subthalamus
HAS PART: subthalamic nucleus
HAS PART: hypothalamus
HAS PART: midbrain, mesencephalon
HAS PART: substantia nigra, nucleus niger, locus niger
HAS PART: superior colliculus
HAS PART: inferior colliculus
HAS PART: hindbrain, rhombencephalon
HAS PART: cerebellum
HAS PART: cerebellar artery, arteria cerebelli
HAS PART: cerebellar hemisphere
HAS PART: dentate nucleus
HAS PART: vermis, vermis cerebelli
HAS PART: paleocerebellum
HAS PART: myelencephalon
HAS PART: brainstem, brain-stem, brain stem
HAS PART: medulla oblongata, medulla, bulb
HAS PART: respiratory center
HAS PART: pons, pons Varolii
HAS PART: respiratory center
HAS PART: reticular formation, RF
HAS PART: reticular activating system, RAS
HAS PART: ventricle
HAS PART: spinal fluid, cerebrospinal fluid
HAS PART: skull
HAS PART: craniometric point
HAS PART: cheekbone, zygomatic bone, zygomatic, malar, malar bone, jugal bone, os zygomaticum
HAS PART: jugale, jugal point
HAS PART: zygoma, zygomatic arch, arcus zygomaticus
HAS PART: zygomatic process
HAS PART: sphenoid bone, sphenoid, os sphenoidale
HAS PART: crotaphion
HAS PART: pterygoid process
HAS PART: eye socket, orbit, cranial orbit, orbital cavity
HAS PART: lacrimal bone
HAS PART: endocranium
HAS PART: cranium, braincase, brainpan
HAS PART: asterion
HAS PART: stephanion
HAS PART: ethmoid, ethmoid bone
HAS PART: temporal bone, os temporale
HAS PART: glenoid fossa, mandibular fossa
HAS PART: tympanic bone
HAS PART: mastoid, mastoid process, mastoid bone, mastoidal
HAS PART: mastoidale
HAS PART: styloid process
HAS PART: calvaria, skullcap
HAS PART: frontal bone, os frontale, forehead
HAS PART: glabella, mesophyron
HAS PART: metopion
HAS PART: ophryon
HAS PART: frontal eminence
HAS PART: parietal bone
HAS PART: entomion
HAS PART: sphenion
HAS PART: occipital bone
HAS PART: inion
HAS PART: occipital protuberance
HAS PART: coronal suture, sutura coronalis
HAS PART: frontal suture, sutura frontalis
HAS PART: lamboid suture, sutura lamboidea
HAS PART: occipitomastoid suture
HAS PART: parietomastoid suture
HAS PART: sagittal suture, interparietal suture, sutura sagittalis
HAS PART: fontanelle, fontanel, soft spot
HAS PART: foramen magnum
HAS PART: jaw
HAS PART: alveolar arch
HAS PART: alveolar ridge, gum ridge, alveolar process
HAS PART: tooth socket, alveolus
HAS PART: alveolar artery, arteria alveolaris
HAS PART: vomer
HAS PART: face, human face
HAS PART: beard, face fungus, whiskers
HAS PART: mustache, moustache
HAS PART: mouth
HAS PART: mouth, oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris
HAS PART: dentition, teeth
HAS PART: tongue, lingua, glossa, clapper
HAS PART: tastebud, taste bud, gustatory organ
HAS PART: neuroepithelium
HAS PART: taste cell, gustatory cell
HAS PART: buccal cavity
HAS PART: gingiva, gum
HAS PART: palate, roof of the mouth
HAS PART: tastebud, taste bud, gustatory organ
HAS PART: neuroepithelium
HAS PART: taste cell, gustatory cell
HAS PART: soft palate, velum
HAS PART: uvula
HAS PART: hard palate
HAS PART: salivary gland
HAS PART: saliva, spit, spittle
HAS PART: lip
HAS PART: labial artery, arteria labialis
HAS PART: labial vein, vena labialis
HAS PART: lingual artery, arteria lingualis
HAS PART: lingual vein, vena lingualis
HAS PART: eye, oculus, optic
HAS PART: choroid, choroid coat
HAS PART: ciliary body
HAS PART: eyelid, lid, palpebra
HAS PART: eyelash, lash, cilium
HAS PART: conjunctiva
HAS PART: canthus
HAS PART: epicanthus, epicanthic fold
HAS PART: nictitating membrane, third eyelid
HAS PART: conjunctiva
HAS PART: eyeball, orb
HAS PART: ocular muscle, eye muscle
HAS PART: cornea
HAS PART: uvea
HAS PART: iris
HAS PART: pupil
HAS PART: lens, crystalline lens
HAS PART: lens capsule
HAS PART: central artery of the retina, arteria centralis retinae
HAS PART: ciliary artery, arteria ciliaris
HAS PART: lacrimal artery, arteria lacrimalis
HAS PART: lacrimal vein, vena lacrimalis
HAS PART: lacrimal apparatus
HAS PART: lacrimal gland, lachrymal gland, tear gland
HAS PART: lacrimal duct, lachrymal duct, tear duct
HAS PART: lacrimal sac, tear sac, dacryocyst
HAS PART: retina
HAS PART: neuroepithelium
HAS PART: fovea, fovea centralis
HAS PART: parafovea
HAS PART: macula, macula lutea, macular area, yellow spot
HAS PART: visual cell
HAS PART: blind spot, optic disc, optic disk
HAS PART: cone, cone cell, retinal cone
HAS PART: iodopsin
HAS PART: rod, rod cell, retinal rod
HAS PART: visual purple, rhodopsin, retinal purple
HAS PART: sclera, sclerotic coat
HAS PART: pupillary sphincter, musculus sphincter pupillae
HAS PART: aperture
HAS PART: eyebrow, brow, supercilium
HAS PART: venae palpebrales
HAS PART: facial vein, vena facialis
HAS PART: facial, facial nerve, nervus facialis, seventh cranial nerve
HAS PART: nose, olfactory organ
HAS PART: turbinate bone, turbinate, turbinal
HAS PART: ethmoidal artery, arteria ethmoidalis
HAS PART: nasal cavity
HAS PART: neuroepithelium
HAS PART: internasal suture, sutura internasalis
HAS PART: bridge
HAS PART: nasal, nasal bone, os nasale
HAS PART: rhinion
HAS PART: nostril, anterior naris
HAS PART: chin, mentum
HAS PART: goatee
HAS PART: feature, lineament
HAS PART: facial muscle
HAS PART: brow, forehead
HAS PART: trichion, crinion
HAS PART: cheek
HAS PART: cheek muscle, buccinator muscle, musculus buccinator
HAS PART: buccal artery, arteria buccalis
HAS PART: jowl
HAS PART: jaw
HAS PART: temple
HAS PART: face
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Holonyms of noun tinker
1 of 3 senses of tinker
Sense 3
chub mackerel, tinker, Scomber japonicus
MEMBER OF: Scomber, genus Scomber
MEMBER OF: Scombridae, family Scombridae
MEMBER OF: Scombroidea, suborder Scombroidea
MEMBER OF: Perciformes, order Perciformes, Percomorphi, order Percomorphi
MEMBER OF: Acanthopterygii, superorder Acanthopterygii
MEMBER OF: Teleostei, subclass Teleostei
MEMBER OF: Osteichthyes, class Osteichthyes
MEMBER OF: Vertebrata, subphylum Vertebrata, Craniata, subphylum Craniata
MEMBER OF: Chordata, phylum Chordata
MEMBER OF: Animalia, kingdom Animalia, animal kingdom
Grep of noun tinker
stinker
tinker
tinker's dam
tinker's damn
tinker's root
tinkerer
Antonyms of verb tinker
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb tinker
3 senses of tinker
Sense 1
putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around
=> work
Sense 2
tinker
=> work, do work
Sense 3
tinker, fiddle
=> repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on
=> better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
=> change, alter, modify
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb tinker
1 of 3 senses of tinker
Sense 1
putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around
=> puddle
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb tinker
3 senses of tinker
Sense 1
putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around
=> work
Sense 2
tinker
=> work, do work
Sense 3
tinker, fiddle
=> repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on
'Cause To' of verb tinker
Derived Forms of verb tinker
1 of 3 senses of tinker
Sense 1
putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around
RELATED TO>(noun) tinker#1
=> tinker, tinkerer
RELATED TO>(noun) tinkerer#2
=> tinker, tinkerer
RELATED TO>(noun) tinkerer#1
=> tinkerer, fiddler
Domain of verb tinker
Domain Terms of verb tinker
Familiarity of verb tinker
tinker used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb tinker
3 senses of tinker
Sense 1
putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around
*> Somebody ----s
*> Somebody ----s PP
Sense 2
tinker
*> Somebody ----s
Sense 3
tinker, fiddle
*> Somebody ----s PP
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb tinker
3 senses of tinker
Sense 1
putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around
> work
=> work through, run through, go through
=> putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around
=> carpenter
=> clerk
=> page
=> wait, waitress
=> pull one's weight
=> electioneer
=> assist
=> beaver, beaver away
=> work at, work on
=> plug away, peg away, slog, keep one's nose to the grindstone, keep one's shoulder to the wheel
=> busy, occupy
=> collaborate, join forces, cooperate, get together
=> volunteer
=> specialize, specialise
=> minister
=> intern
=> skipper
=> boondoggle
=> skimp, scant
=> serve
=> work
Sense 2
tinker
> work, do work
=> serve
=> bank
=> fill, take
=> drive
=> tinker
=> serve
=> fink, scab, rat, blackleg
=> labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
=> farm
=> moonlight
=> job
=> man
=> slave, break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down
=> free-lance
=> subcontract
=> turn a trick
=> freelance
Sense 3
tinker, fiddle
> repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on
=> tinker, fiddle
=> fill
=> piece, patch
=> cobble
=> point, repoint
=> trouble-shoot
=> patch, patch up
=> sole, resole
=> vamp, revamp
=> heel, reheel
=> darn
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb tinker
Sense 1
putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around
=> work
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Sense 2
tinker
=> work, do work
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Sense 3
tinker, fiddle
=> repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on
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Grep of verb tinker
tinker
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