dabble

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I love to dabble, but apparently don't know what I'm doing.

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Quick take

dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid

Meaning at a glance

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verb

dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid

verb

play in or as if in water, as of small children

verb

work with in an amateurish manner; "She dabbles in astronomy"; "He plays around with investments but he never makes any money"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dabble.

verb

dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid

verb

play in or as if in water, as of small children

verb

work with in an amateurish manner; "She dabbles in astronomy"; "He plays around with investments but he never makes any money"

verb

bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water; "dabbling ducks"

Example sentences

I love to dabble, but apparently don't know what I'm doing.

I take French classes, dabble in photography and build the occasional web app.

I say this meaning journalists do not explore the frightening realm of creative writing, they only dabble in it.

Now when this guy later turns around and says "Aw, naw, not really; well, I guess kind of I dabble in the Ultimate Truth", I'll probably listen.

If an industry-changing platform appeared, I wouldn't leverage what I already know to dabble in it.

If you like to dabble in modding or are a game developer, here are some fairly obscure but quite innovative games:Heroes of Might and Magic 4.

But some people are going to get burned along the way, and these are the risks that you need to accept if you want to dabble in what amounts to unregulated banking.

The proponents of a similar bill in my country are all intel agency shills that normally never dabble in any laws regarding street crime yet are heavily lobbying for this.

It should be rather straight-forward, but even if a DB can just be downloaded and ran to dabble with it, always remember that this just shifts the moment at which you really have to dig into the details.

The sort of person that faced with ownership of Facebook would say he would just retire and travel and dabble in philanthropy is also the sort of person who would sell out of a Facebook for $500m a few years earlier, $100m a year or two before that, $50m months before that...

I avoid grappling with a broad conversation about corporate and government corruption and abuse in the field in which I dabble because clinging to my dilettante skill set is the only way I can retain some illusion of agency in a world which is increasingly unjust and beyond my control.

Reading the original comment made on Slashdot by Mark, I find the following part noticeable:>If your way of seeing the world IS genuinely more productive, effective, efficient, insightful and usable, then you should be confident that you will win in the long term, and folk who dabble in a different way of working will come to realize that you're right eventuallyA lot of people seems to strongly believe in this, and I find it a very naive way of thinking.