Temper in English dictionary

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    Meanings and definitions of "Temper"

    • A tendency to anger or lose patience easily.
    • State of mind.
    • The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
    • To moderate or control.
    • To heat-treat a material, particularly a metal.
    • To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency
    • noun
      A tendency to be of a certain type of mood.
    • noun
      State of mind.
    • noun
      The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
    • noun
      The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
    • noun
      Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
    • noun
      The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
    • noun
      Middle state or course; mean; medium.
    • noun
      (sugar manufacture, historical)
      Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
    • verb
      To moderate or control.
    • verb
      To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
    • verb
      To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
    • verb
      To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
    • verb
      (music)
      To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
    • verb
      (obsolete, Latinism)
      To govern; to manage.
    • verb
      (archaic)
      To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
    • verb
      (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.
    • verb
      (obsolete)
      To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.
    • tendency to anger or lose patience easily
    • state of mind
    • heat treatment
    • to moderate or control
    • to heat-treat
    • noun
      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"
    • noun
      a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees"
    • noun
      a sudden outburst of anger; "his temper sparked like damp firewood"
    • noun
      the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking
    • verb
      adjust the pitch (of pianos)
    • verb
      bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling; "temper glass"
    • verb
      change by restraining or moderating
    • verb
      harden by reheating and cooling in oil; "temper steel"
    • verb
      make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; "she tempered her criticism"

    Synonyms of "Temper" in English dictionary

    snappishness, chafe, elasticity are the top synonyms of "Temper" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of Temper

    • temper ( third-person singular simple present tempers, present participle tempering, simple past and past participle tempered)
    • temper ( plural  tempers)
    • temper (countable and uncountable, plural tempers)
    • temper (third-person singular simple present tempers, present participle tempering, simple past and past participle tempered)
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