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English

Pronunciation

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Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɛmpə(r)|-ɛmpə(r)

Noun

A tendency to anger or lose patience easily.
:He has quite a temper when dealing with salespeople.
The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.

Translations

Portuguese(Brazil): pavio-curto, tempero

Verb

To moderate or control.
:Temper your language around children.
To heat-treat a material, particularly a metal.
:Next, temper the steel by dropping the white hot metal into cold water.
To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency

Translations

Spanish: templar

Spanish: templar

: moderar, temperar

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Temper \Tem"per\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tempered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Tempering.] [AS. temprian or OF. temper, F. temp['e]rer,
and (in sense 3) temper, L. temperare, akin to tempus time.
Cf. Temporal, Distemper, Tamper.]
1. 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.
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Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch
indifference, that mercy itself could not have
dictated a milder system. --Bancroft.
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Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee
To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
--Otway.
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But thy fire
Shall be more tempered, and thy hope far higher.
--Byron.
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She [the Goddess of Justice] threw darkness and
clouds about her, that tempered the light into a
thousand beautiful shades and colors. --Addison.
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2. To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate.
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Thy sustenance . . . serving to the appetite of the
eater, tempered itself to every man's liking.
--Wisdom xvi.
21.
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3. (Metal.) To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to
temper iron or steel.
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The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound.
--Dryden.
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4. To govern; to manage. [A Latinism & Obs.]
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With which the damned ghosts he governeth,
And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth. --Spenser.
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5. To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as
clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.
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6. (Mus.) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual
scale, or to that in actual use.
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Syn: To soften; mollify; assuage; soothe; calm.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Temper \Tem"per\, n.
1. 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.
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2. Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the
mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood,
choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
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The exquisiteness of his [Christ's] bodily temper
increased the exquisiteness of his torment.
--Fuller.
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3. 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.
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Remember with what mild
And gracious temper he both heared and judged.
--Milton.
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The consequents of a certain ethical temper. --J. H.
Newman.
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4. Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as,
to keep one's temper.
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To fall with dignity, with temper rise. --Pope.
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Restore yourselves to your tempers, fathers. --B.
Jonson.
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5. Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger;
-- in a reproachful sense. [Colloq.]
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6. 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.
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7. Middle state or course; mean; medium. [R.]
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The perfect lawgiver is a just temper between the
mere man of theory, who can see nothing but general
principles, and the mere man of business, who can
see nothing but particular circumstances.
--Macaulay.
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8. (Sugar Works) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed
in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
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Temper screw, in deep well boring, an adjusting screw
connecting the working beam with the rope carrying the
tools, for lowering the tools as the drilling progresses.
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Syn: Disposition; temperament; frame; humor; mood. See
Disposition.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Temper \Tem"per\, v. i.
1. To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity.
[Obs.] --Shak.
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2. To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to
grow soft and pliable.
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I have him already tempering between my finger and
my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. --Shak.
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WordNet temper
n 1: a sudden outburst of anger; "his temper sparked like damp
firewood" [syn: pique, irritation]
2: a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of
feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his
temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" [syn: mood,
humor, humour]
3: a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was
well known to all his employees" [syn: biliousness, irritability,
peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness]
4: the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability
to absorb considerable energy before cracking [syn: toughness]
v 1: toughen (steel or glass) by a process of gradually heating
and cooling; "temper glass" [syn: anneal, normalize]
2: harden by reheating and cooling in oil; "temper steel" [syn:
harden]
3: adjust the pitch (of pianos)
4: make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding
something else; moderate; "she tempered her criticism"
[syn: season, mollify]
5: restrain or temper [syn: chasten, moderate]

Moby Dictionary
Irish , abate , adjust , adjust to , allay , alleviate , alter , anger ,
animus , anneal , appease , aptitude , assuage , atmosphere ,
attain majority , attemper , attribute , aura , bad temper , balance ,
bank the fire , be tough , beef up , bent , besprinkle , bias , bloom ,
blunt , body-build , box in , brace , brace up , brand , breathe , brew ,
buttress , calcify , callous , calmness , case harden , cast , character ,
characteristic , characteristics , chasten , chisel temper ,
churlishness , circumscribe , climate , color , come of age ,
come to maturity , complexion , composition , composure , condition ,
confirm , conniption , constituents , constitution , constrain ,
control , cool , coolness , cornify , crasis , cue , curb , cushion , damp ,
dampen , dander , de-emphasize , deaden , decoct , develop , dharma ,
diathesis , die temper , dilute , diminish , disposition , downplay ,
dredge , drift , dull , dye , ease , eccentricity , endure , entincture ,
equanimity , ethos , extenuate , fiber , fierce temper , fiery temper ,
firm , firmness , fit , flavor , fledge , flower , fortify , fossilize ,
frame , frame of mind , fury , genius , gird , grain , grow , grow up ,
habit , hang tough , harden , hardness , hardness scale , heart ,
heat treating , hedge , hedge about , hot blood , hot temper ,
hotheadedness , hue , huffishness , humor , humors , idiosyncrasy , ilk ,
ill humor , ill temper , imbrue , imbue , impregnate , inclination ,
indenter , individualism , individuality , indurate , infiltrate ,
infuse , instill , invigorate , irascibility , ire , irritability ,
irritable temper , keep within bounds , kidney , kind , lapidify , lay ,
leaning , leave the nest , leaven , lenify , lessen , lighten , limit ,
lithify , make , makeup , mature , mellow , mental set , mettle , mind ,
mind-set , mitigate , moderate , modify , modulate , mold , mollify ,
mood , morale , narrow , nature , nerve , note , obtund , orientation ,
ossify , outburst , outlook , pacify , paddy , palliate , passion ,
peculiarity , peevishness , penetrate , permeate , personality ,
pervade , petrify , petulance , physique , play down , posture ,
precipitation hardening , predilection , predisposition , preference ,
proclivity , prop , propensity , property , qualify , quality , rage ,
razor temper , reach manhood , reach twenty-one , reach voting age ,
reduce , reduce the temperature , refresh , regulate by , reinforce ,
reinvigorate , relax , restrain , restrengthen , restrict , ripen ,
sang-froid , saturate , saw file temper , season , self-control ,
self-possession , set , set conditions , set limits , set temper ,
settle down , shore up , short temper , slacken , slant , slow down ,
smother , sober , sober down , soften , solidity , somatotype , soothe ,
sort , soundness , spindle temper , spirit , spirits , spunkiness ,
stability , stamp , state , state of mind , staunchness , steel , steep ,
stiffen , stifle , stoutness , strain , streak , strengthen , stripe ,
sturdiness , style , subdue , suchness , suffuse , support , suppress ,
surliness , sustain , system , tame , tantrum , temper tantrum ,
temperament , tempering , tendency , tenor , timbre , tincture , tinge ,
toga virilis , tone , tone down , tool temper , toughen , transfuse ,
trend , tune down , turn , turn of mind , twist , type , undergird ,
underplay , vein , vitrify , volatility , warm temper , warp , wax , way ,
weaken