I dabble in mathematics
I sometimes engage myself with mathematics
TRANSLATION
dabble = sich in etw. versuchen, herumspielen to dabble on the stock exchange = sich an der Börse versuchen --- GOOGLE INDEX dabble: approximately 1,200,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
DABBLING in student politics
(BBC News headline)
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Then I went to film school and I got to DABBLE with different aspects of moviemaking, and I ended up settling into editing.
- film editor Lee Unkrich
(BBC News headline)
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Then I went to film school and I got to DABBLE with different aspects of moviemaking, and I ended up settling into editing.
- film editor Lee Unkrich
Did you
know?
dabble (in), (on), (with
verb
- to take a slight and not very serious interest in a subject, or try a particular activity for a short period
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Self-help expert and speaker Tony Robbins likes to claim that "Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular." Whether that's true for most people is a subject for debate. What can't be debated however is the fact that Leonardo da Vinci was one of the great "dabblers" of all time.
The prototypical Renaissance man, he rarely finished one thing before moving on to the next. Some historians have speculated that he suffered from a mild form of attention deficit disorder. Indeed, the subject of his most famous painting - the Mona Lisa - appears to have no eyebrows!
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SYNONYMS
dally, fiddle with, flirt with, fool around with, mess around, monkey around, tinker with, toy with
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"I dabbled in a lot of different things before deciding to work in the biotech industry."
verb
- to take a slight and not very serious interest in a subject, or try a particular activity for a short period
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Self-help expert and speaker Tony Robbins likes to claim that "Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular." Whether that's true for most people is a subject for debate. What can't be debated however is the fact that Leonardo da Vinci was one of the great "dabblers" of all time.
The prototypical Renaissance man, he rarely finished one thing before moving on to the next. Some historians have speculated that he suffered from a mild form of attention deficit disorder. Indeed, the subject of his most famous painting - the Mona Lisa - appears to have no eyebrows!
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SYNONYMS
dally, fiddle with, flirt with, fool around with, mess around, monkey around, tinker with, toy with
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"I dabbled in a lot of different things before deciding to work in the biotech industry."
