What's the difference between puttering and tinkering?

Puttering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Putter

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Echocardiographic studies and radiological measurements of heart volume were performed in 30 female track athletes, 17 female shot-putters or javelin throwers, 12 nonathletic women and 8 female patients with arterial hypertension.
  • (2) Thomas Putter, director of Allianz Infrastructure, said this afternoon: "We believe that our offers fully reflect the value inherent in the business and we cannot justify an increase in our offers to our investors."
  • (3) On the poop deck of a party boat puttering slowly out into the Adriatic stands a gently balding and teetotal Canadian in studious specs and sandals.
  • (4) An economy that continues to putter along with high unemployment and mediocre growth will keep his approval ratings in negative territory.
  • (5) The Dow has puttered along at about a half-percentage-point down from Friday.
  • (6) Outside, the crowd puttered towards the exit, a recognisable song playing them out.
  • (7) smiles Jude Sayer, our guide to Norwich, as we stand by the river Wensum watching the motor boats puttering towards Wroxham.
  • (8) But before we do that, there's time to hand out a couple of minor gongs: The Award For The Team Top at Christmas Blowing It In The Most Spectacular Fashion: A few candidates for this, though no one has been top at the end of Christmas Day and finished outside the top four since 1972, with the exception of John Gregory's Aston Villa in 1998-99, who won just five of their 20 post Crimbo fixtures to putter sadly into sixth come May.
  • (9) He also found the sand on the 461-yard 10th, and again saved with the putter, by now his only friend.
  • (10) Under the guidance of PUTTER and REINEBOTH a first dispensary for tuberculous patients was established and became the prototype of similar institutions in Germany and other countries.
  • (11) In this paper the long term effect of conservative non-surgical treatment in two body-builders and one shot-putter is discussed, who reported the partial rupture while performing bench lifts with barbells.
  • (12) But, then I think about some of his expressed views about philosophers, especially in Small Gods and wonder what he really makes of us,” said South, citing Pratchett’s dictum that “whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it’s all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place.” “Of course, some of these observations hit close to home,” South added.
  • (13) The Australian also offered as good an argument as any for hideous, long-handled putters not really proving the answer to bother on the greens despite suggestions to the contrary.
  • (14) In almost every case, the regression functions for the shot-putters show an approximately linear relationship between the morphological variables and the result of the shot-putt.
  • (15) "At 18 you should putt well and he's a good putter.
  • (16) In the way that a scent lingers, I can still feel my Honda 125 puttering away while waves of heat from the endless sunshine and exhausts bounced to and fro between those venerable curving walls.
  • (17) In January, the website Grantland (which is owned by ESPN Internet Ventures , a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company ) published an article – ostensibly about the inventor of a golf putter – that resulted in a prurient quest to uncover the subject's trans status, and which may have contributed to the article's subject's suicide.
  • (18) A minute later Enriqué tries a curler but the execeution isn't as good as his imagination and it putters two yards wide.
  • (19) The New Zealand shot putter Valerie Adams is also competing as she seeks to recover her best form after surgery.
  • (20) It is not a collective panic in the chancelleries of the west that Johnson might make some inappropriate joke about Putin’s chest muscles or Soviet-era female shot-putters at a time of heightened political tension.

Tinkering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tinker
  • (n.) The act or work of a tinker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For further education, this would be my priority: a substantial increase in funding and an end to tinkering with the form of qualifications and bland repetition of the “parity of esteem” trope.
  • (2) "We should be working out how it should be ended, rather than tinkering around the edges."
  • (3) The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, indicated that the government had no appetite for the kind of structural tinkering that broke up British Rail and rushed the system into private ownership in the 1990s.
  • (4) Tinker with the tax treatment of the elderly and prepare to be accused of imposing a "granny tax" .
  • (5) He also says that continual tinkering with pension rules by successive governments could deter people from investing in pensions.
  • (6) As the global financial crisis deepens, the rich nations will be forced to recognise that their problems cannot be solved by tinkering with a system that is constitutionally destined to fail.
  • (7) The pre-briefing we’re seeing, tinkering with schedules, now going on about pay, it’s very, very threatening to an institution that’s loved, [even one] that needs to reform.” Jeremy Hunt was the last culture minister to try to increase NAO oversight at the BBC, in 2010.
  • (8) Jean-Claude Juncker , the European commission president, told the Guardian in December that Cameron could tinker with British law on social security and migrant rights, but that enshrining discrimination in EU law was a no-go area.
  • (9) The tinkering with the tort system following the 1975 malpractice crisis will not ease the constantly increasing cost burden on the health care delivery system.
  • (10) At the very least, it would seem to be tinkering with the formula of the biggest spiritual brand in the world, analogous to Coca-Cola changing its famous recipe in 1985 .
  • (11) ET 10 min: Am I the only person who found Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy interminably dull?
  • (12) Happily, there are suddenly more alternatives, indies, blended play and new tech enabled hybrids, toys that encourage tinkering, making and individuality.
  • (13) This suggests that Labour’s answer to Ukip cannot be purely tactical or about tinkering with policy.
  • (14) The existence of multiple neuronal representations of sensory information and multiple circuits for the control of behavioral responses should provide the necessary freedom for evolutionary tinkering and the invention of new designs.
  • (15) Even after the Daily Mail's Jack Tinker (obituary, October 29 1996) contrived for Shulman's career as a theatre critic to be brought to an end in 1991, he continued to write a column for the Evening Standard on art affairs - until he was 83.
  • (16) The Tasmanian Liberal premier, Will Hodgman, opposed “tinkering” with the system.
  • (17) His personal favourite is probably his own 1926 vintage Bentley, and he admits to being in seventh heaven tinkering "to a fault" with any old engine he can get his hands on.
  • (18) I think a lot of the things they publish tinker on racism and Islamophobia … but at the same time I think they have a right to do what they do.
  • (19) But if these opportunities are squandered because tinkering at the edges seems safer than radical reform, we will have failed every future rape victim.
  • (20) The sounds he discovered on his guitar, refined during hours of solitary tinkering in his home studio, adorned records by Elvis Presley, Hank Williams and thousands of other artists, both country and pop.

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