Word Finder - temper

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A tendency to be in a certain type of mood; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.

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to have a good, bad, or calm temper

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State of mind; mood.

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A tendency to become angry.

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He has quite a temper when dealing with salespeople.

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Anger; a fit of anger.

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an outburst of temper

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Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.

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to keep one's temper; to lose one's temper; to recover one's temper

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Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.

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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 temper of mortar

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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.

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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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the temper of iron or steel

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(sugar manufacture) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.

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To moderate or control.

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Temper your language around children.

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To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.

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Tempering is a heat treatment technique applied to metals, alloys, and glass to achieve greater toughness by increasing the strength of materials and/or ductility. Tempering is performed by a controlled reheating of the work piece to a temperature below its lower eutectic critical temperature.

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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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To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.

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(Latinism) To govern; to manage.

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To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.

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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.

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To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

Her temper rose with her voice.

His temper was rising by the second.

At least he was trying to control his temper this time.

She wasn't about to lose her temper again.

The old prince was in a good temper and very gracious to Pierre.

Temper made her brave and she lifted her head.

I'm afraid I lost my temper with him.

In total loss of her temper, she marched over and stomped on the phone, grinding it under her boot heel.

The old man was in a good temper after his nap before dinner.

She clamped a lid on her temper and turned the fire down to simmer.

By the time she reached the chicken coop, her fit of temper was mellowing.

She should shut the door, but her temper flared.

The flurry of words left before she could temper them.

The temper of this assembly was, however, wholly different.

This time she marched toward the kitchen, her temper rising with every step.

He does have a formidable temper, you know.

I lost my temper and said things I didn't mean.

Josh simply didn't realize how strong he was — and he had a terrible temper.

There may be, as we think there is, the greatest difference in their value, and the temper is not the same, nor the method.

Her temper was legendary in her household.

Temper, Jessi! she berated herself, aware of what happened if she pissed him off.

Xander sat on the bench until he regained his temper.

If Alex tried to tell him what to do, Josh might lose his temper.

She left the phone on the floor as a reminder to control her temper.

Losing her temper wasn't going to get her anywhere, especially now that she knew he was trying to provoke her.

Hume's cheerful temper, his equanimity, his kindness to literary aspirants and to those whose views differed from his own won him universal respect and affection.

Temper abandoned her then, leaving nothing but weakness and shame.

I lost my temper.

He showed indeed none of the avaricious temper so common among the politicians of the time.

The tiny, withered, sickly body of Bem was animated by an heroic temper.

Age mellowed her temper, and she turned more and more from secular ambitions to charity and religious works.

Grindal indeed attempted a reform of the ecclesiastical courts, but his metropolitical activity was cut short by a conflict with the arbitrary temper of the queen.

The prevalent winds, which temper the heat, are the S.E.

From the testimony of his pupil, and the still more conclusive evidence of his own correspondence with the father, Pavilliard seems to have been a man of singular good sense, temper and tact.

His moderation, good sense, wisdom, temper, firmness and erudition made him as successful in this position as he had been when professor of theology, and he speedily surrounded himself with a band of scholarly young men.

But such a temper of mind is much more akin to scepticism than to mysticism; it is characteristic of those who either do not feel the need of philosophizing their beliefs, or who have failed in doing so and take refuge in sheer acceptance.

Though patient and good-tempered in the main, they have a latent warmth of temper, and if oppressed beyond a certain limit they would fiercely turn upon their tormentors.

There is told of him a story which illustrates the temper of the early humanistic revival in Italy.

The news of the strengthening of the British army and navy lately announced in the king's speech had perhaps annoyed him; but seeing that his outbursts of passion were nearly always the result of calculation - he once stated, pointing to his chin, that temper only mounted that high with him - his design, doubtless, was to set men everywhere talking about the perfidy of Albion.

This outburst of temper was a grave blunder.

On arriving at Paris three days after Waterloo he still clung to the hope of concerting national resistance; but the temper of the chambers and of the public generally forbade any such attempt.

During this period of diplomatic work he acquired an exceptional knowledge of the affairs of Europe, and in particular of Germany, and displayed great tact and temper in dealing with the Swedish senate, with Queen Ulrica, with the king of Denmark and Frederick William I.

This naive temper of the middle ages is nowhere more conspicuously displayed than in the Feast of the Ass, which under various forms was celebrated in a large number of churches throughout the West.

His temper was irritable, his habits penurious and solitary.

Born at Rome, she was the daughter of Francesco Cenci (1549-1598), the bastard son of a priest, and a man of great wealth but dissolute habits and violent temper.

His temper was naturally that of a trimmer; and he had thus many qualifications for the writing of well-informed and unbiassed history.

On the other hand they are generally written by men of affairs - governors, secretaries or ambassadors; and a fatalistic temper leads their authors to a certain impartial recording of everything, good or evil, which seems of moment.

By legislative enactment whites and blacks living in adultery are to be punished by imprisonment or fine; divorces may be secured only after two years' residence in the state and on the ground of physical incapacity, adultery, extreme cruelty, habitual indulgence in violent temper, habitual drunkenness, desertion for one year, previous marriage still existing, or such relationship of the parties as is within the degrees for which marriage is prohibited by law.

The temper of the times, a vague discontent with the established order of things, and some political enthusiasm imbibed from the writings of Rousseau, are the best reasons which can now be assigned for Gallatin's desertion of home and friends.

His perfect command of temper, his moderation of speech and action, in a bitterly personal age, never failed, and were his most effective weapons; but he made his power felt in other ways.