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Definition of Tinkerers
1. tinkerer [n] - See also: tinkerer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tinkerers
Literary usage of Tinkerers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biographical Memoirs by National Academy Of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences Staff, Caroline K. McEuen (1980)
"Both were ardent amateur scientists and tinkerers who lived in the neighborhood
and welcomed interested high school students after school hours. ..."
2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1919)
"Here at the National Conference of Social Work, all the dreamers, all the
practical-minded workers, all the social tinkerers may come together and confess ..."
3. Sbir Program Diversity and Assessment Challenges by Charles W. Wessner (2004)
"... entrepreneurs, innovators, scientists, engineers, and tinkerers of all kinds.
Pioneer inventors include such familiar names as Benjamin Franklin, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1894)
"The distinguished tinkerers all admit it with the most commendable candour, and
they shield their reputations by ascribing it to the inherent impossibility ..."
5. The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist by Jacques Vallee (1982)
"As scientists lose control of their creations, new generations of tinkerers will
start playing. They will embellish and they will enlighten the technology ..."
6. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1892)
"Nothing in human nature could have tempted the copyist of any later manuscript
to stick it in. Bolder text-tinkerers seem to have gone further still, ..."
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