Temper vs. Temperament
Tempernoun
A tendency to be in a certain type of mood; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
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State of mind; mood.
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A tendency to become angry.
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Anger; a fit of anger.
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Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
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(obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
Tempernoun
Middle state or course; mean; medium.
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The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
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The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
Tempernoun
The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
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Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
Temperverb
To moderate or control.
Temperverb
To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
Temperverb
To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
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To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
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(music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
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To govern; to manage.
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(archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
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(archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.
Temperverb
(obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.
Temperverb
To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm.
Temperverb
To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate.
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To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel.
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To govern; to manage.
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To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.
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To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
Temperverb
To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity.
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To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable.
Tempernoun
The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just combination; as, the temper of mortar.
Tempernoun
Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
Tempernoun
Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper.
Tempernoun
Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one's temper.
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Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; - in a reproachful sense.
Tempernoun
The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling; as, the temper of iron or steel.
Tempernoun
Middle state or course; mean; medium.
Tempernoun
Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
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a sudden outburst of anger;
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a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;
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a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger;
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the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking
Temperverb
toughen (steel or glass) by a process of gradually heating and cooling;
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harden by reheating and cooling in oil;
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adjust the pitch (of pianos)
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make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate;
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restrain or temper
Temperamentnoun
(obsolete) A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
Temperamentnoun
(obsolete) Any state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.
Temperamentnoun
A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
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A tendency to become irritable or angry.
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(music) The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
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(psychology) Individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes.
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Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.
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Due mixture of qualities; a condition brought about by mutual compromises or concessions.
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The act of tempering or modifying; adjustment, as of clashing rules, interests, passions, or the like; also, the means by which such adjustment is effected.
Temperamentnoun
Condition with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
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A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenience that the same twelve fixed tones answer for every key or scale, C$ becoming identical with D$, and so on.
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The peculiar physical and mental character of an individual, in olden times erroneously supposed to be due to individual variation in the relations and proportions of the constituent parts of the body, especially of the fluids, as the bile, blood, lymph, etc. Hence the phrases, bilious or choleric temperament, sanguine temperament, etc., implying a predominance of one of these fluids and a corresponding influence on the temperament.
Temperamentnoun
your usual mood;
Temperamentnoun
excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly)
Temperamentnoun
an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys
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a person's or animal's nature, especially as it permanently affects their behaviour
Temperamentnoun
the tendency to behave angrily or emotionally
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the adjustment of intervals in tuning a piano or other musical instrument so as to fit the scale for use in different keys; in equal temperament, the octave consists of twelve equal semitones
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In psychology, temperament broadly refers to consistent individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes. Some researchers point to association of temperament with formal dynamical features of behavior, such as energetic aspects, plasticity, sensitivity to specific reinforcers and emotionality.
