Synonyms of the word

tinker

• n. an itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of tin.
• n. (dated, chiefly Britain and Ireland, offensive) A member of the travelling community. A gypsy.
• n. (usually with "little") A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
• n. Someone who repairs, or attempts repair on anything mechanical (tinkers) or invents; a tinkerer.
• n. The act of repair or invention.
• n. (military, obsolete) A small mortar on the end of a staff.
• n. Any of various fish: the chub mackerel, the silverside, the skate, or a young mackerel about two years…
• n. A bird, the razor-billed auk.
• v. (intransitive) To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental…
• v. (intransitive) To work as a tinker.

bushel

• n. A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
• n. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
• n. A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
• n. (colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
• n. (Britain) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. In the United States it is called a box.
• v. (US, tailoring, transitive, intransitive) To mend or repair clothes.

doctor

• n. A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick. The…
• n. A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees…
• n. A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats animals.
• n. A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
• n. (obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
• n. (dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
• n. A fish, the friar skate.
• v. (transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.
• v. (intransitive, humorous) To act as a medical doctor.
• v. (transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
• v. (transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or…
• v. (transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.
• v. (transitive) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.

experimenter

• n. A person who experiments.

fiddle

• n. (music) Any of various bowed string instruments, often used to refer to a violin when played in any of…
• n. A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves shaped like the musical instrument.
• n. An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw.
• n. A fraud; a scam.
• n. (nautical) On board a ship or boat, a rail or batten around the edge of a table or stove to prevent objects…
• v. To play aimlessly.
• v. To adjust in order to cover a basic flaw or fraud etc.
• v. (music) To play traditional tunes on a violin in a non-classical style.
• v. To touch or fidget with something in a restless or nervous way, or tinker with something in an attempt…

fix

• n. A repair or corrective action.
• n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
• n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
• n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game,…
• n. A determination of location.
• n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
• v. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
• v. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
• v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).
• v. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular…
• v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
• v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
• v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
• v. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will…
• v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
• v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
• v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal;…

gipsy

• n. Alternative spelling of gypsy.
• v. Alternative spelling of gypsy.

gypsy

• n. (sometimes offensive) Alternative form of Gypsy: a member of the Romani people.
• n. (offensive) An itinerant person or any person suspected of making a living from dishonest practices or…
• n. (sometimes offensive) A move in contra dancing in which two dancers walk in a circle around each other…
• adj. Alternative form of Gypsy: of or belonging to the Romani people or one of it sub-groups (Roma, Sinti,…
• adj. (offensive) Of or having the qualities of an itinerant person or group with qualities traditionally ascribed…
• v. (intransitive) To roam around the country like a gypsy.
• v. To perform the gypsy step in contra dancing.

itinerant

• adj. Habitually travelling from place to place.
• n. One who travels from place to place.
• n. (Ireland) a member of the Travelling Community, whether settled or not.

mackerel

• n. An edible fish of the family Scombridae, often speckled.
• n. (obsolete) A pimp; also, a bawd.

mend

• n. A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.
• n. The act of repairing.
• v. To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay,…
• v. To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
• v. To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
• v. To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

monkey

• n. Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from…
• n. (informal) Any nonhuman primate, including apes.
• n. (informal) A mischievous child.
• n. (Britain, slang) Five hundred pounds sterling.
• n. (slang) A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar…
• n. (slang) A person with minimal intelligence and/or an unattractive appearance.
• n. (blackjack) A face card.
• n. (slang) A menial employee who does a repetitive job, as in code monkey, grease monkey, phone monkey, powder…
• n. The weight or hammer of a pile driver; a heavy mass of iron, which, being raised high, falls on the head…
• n. A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
• v. (informal) To meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.

potter

• n. One who makes pots and other ceramic wares.
• n. One who places flowers or other plants inside their pots.
• n. One who pots meats or other eatables.
• n. One who hawks crockery or earthenware.
• n. The red-bellied terrapin, Pseudemys rubriventris (species of turtle).
• n. The chicken turtle, Deirochelys reticularia.
• v. (obsolete) To poke repeatedly.
• v. (Britain) To act in a vague or unmotivated way.
• v. (Britain) To move slowly or aimlessly. (Often potter about, potter around.).

putter

• v. (intransitive) To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
• n. One who puts or places.
• n. One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine.
• n. (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
• n. (golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.
• v. To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating.

repair

• n. The act of repairing something.
• n. The result of repairing something.
• n. The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
• v. To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
• v. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
• n. The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
• n. A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
• v. To transfer oneself to another place.
• v. to pair again.

restore

• n. (computing) The act of recovering data or a system from a backup.
• v. (transitive) To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
• v. (transitive) To bring back to a previous condition or state.
• v. (transitive) To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to…
• v. (transitive) To give in place of, or as restitution for.
• v. (computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
• v. (obsolete) To make good; to make amends for.

tinkerer

• n. Agent noun of tinker; one who tinkers with things.
• n. A meddler.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.