noun
- Bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow.
- synonyms: violin
verb
- Avoid (one's assigned duties. )
- usage: "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"
- synonyms: shirk, shrink from, goldbrick
- Commit fraud and steal from one's employer.
- usage: "We found out that she had been fiddling for years"
- Play the violin or fiddle.
- Play on a violin.
- usage: "Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely"
- Manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination.
- usage: "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate"
- Play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly.
- usage: "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk"; "The reporter fiddle with the facts"
- Try to fix or mend.
- usage: "Can you tinker with the T. V. Set-it's not working right"; "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend"
- synonyms: tinker
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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