The word 'tinker' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the term to describe someone who works with tools and machines in an inventive and creative way. For example, "The tinker spent most of the day tinkering with the old engine until it was running again."
PNG government sources have said they are expecting the Abbott government to tinker around the edges of existing PNG policy but maintain core programs.
Prof Jane Dacre, president, Royal College of Physicians " Ministers must avoid the temptation to tinker with NHS structures and instead create the space for local health leaders to reshape services around people's needs.
"If we get to a stage where savers are getting a marked improvement in savings returns – say if rates reach 4%-5 4%-5%n – there is agains thereossisility thalwaysuthee chancellor would reintroduce tax on savings or tinker with the tax-free allowances announced this week," he warns.
I had people come and sit there and I said, 'It's an 18-hour exposure, not the fifth-of-a-second one.'" Since then, Hockney hasn't stopped and he continues to tinker with technology to produce new work.
Pietersen had earlier told Test Match Special he will "explore the options" and "tinker with a few things", suggesting he may pull out of commitments at the Indian Premier League, which clashes with the start of the English season.
Yes, in just one of many fascinating (chicken) nuggets, Lawler explores the efforts of geneticists to tinker with chicken embryos so that they develop teeth and even snouts.
I use this studio to think, draw, tinker and plan.
Californians love to tinker with their state's political rules, and over the last century this has generally meant binding the hands of politicians (with, often, ruinous consequences).
Where they fall short is in pretending that they have done more than tinker at the margins to open up.
So it will be no surprise if any reforms that emerge from the current political fury will do no more than tinker.
If an abalone has within its DNA the ability to code for the proteins needed to gather the materials to construct a shell, would it be possible to tinker with the DNA sequences in other creatures to gather some of the elements on the periodic table?
