temper

Etymology
From, , from , , borrowed from , from. Compare also 🇨🇬. . See.

Noun

 * 1) A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
 * 2) State of mind; mood.
 * 3) A tendency to become angry.
 * 4) Anger; a fit of anger.
 * 5) Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
 * to keep one's temper; to lose one's temper; to recover one's temper
 * 1)  Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
 * 2) Middle state or course; mean; medium.
 * 3) The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
 * 4) The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
 * 5) The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
 * 6)  Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
 * 7) * 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp.xciv-xcv,
 * All cane juice is liable to rapid fermentation. As soon, therefore, as the clarifier is filled, the fire is lighted, and the temper (white lime of Bristol) is stirred into it. The alkali of the lime having neutralized its superabundant acid, a part of it becomes the basis of the sugar.
 * 1) A tendency to become angry.
 * 2) Anger; a fit of anger.
 * 3) Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
 * to keep one's temper; to lose one's temper; to recover one's temper
 * 1)  Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
 * 2) Middle state or course; mean; medium.
 * 3) The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
 * 4) The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
 * 5) The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
 * 6)  Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
 * 7) * 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp.xciv-xcv,
 * All cane juice is liable to rapid fermentation. As soon, therefore, as the clarifier is filled, the fire is lighted, and the temper (white lime of Bristol) is stirred into it. The alkali of the lime having neutralized its superabundant acid, a part of it becomes the basis of the sugar.
 * to keep one's temper; to lose one's temper; to recover one's temper
 * 1)  Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
 * 2) Middle state or course; mean; medium.
 * 3) The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
 * 4) The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
 * 5) The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
 * 6)  Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
 * 7) * 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp.xciv-xcv,
 * All cane juice is liable to rapid fermentation. As soon, therefore, as the clarifier is filled, the fire is lighted, and the temper (white lime of Bristol) is stirred into it. The alkali of the lime having neutralized its superabundant acid, a part of it becomes the basis of the sugar.
 * 1) The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
 * 2) The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
 * 3) The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
 * 4)  Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
 * 5) * 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp.xciv-xcv,
 * All cane juice is liable to rapid fermentation. As soon, therefore, as the clarifier is filled, the fire is lighted, and the temper (white lime of Bristol) is stirred into it. The alkali of the lime having neutralized its superabundant acid, a part of it becomes the basis of the sugar.
 * 1)  Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
 * 2) * 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp.xciv-xcv,
 * All cane juice is liable to rapid fermentation. As soon, therefore, as the clarifier is filled, the fire is lighted, and the temper (white lime of Bristol) is stirred into it. The alkali of the lime having neutralized its superabundant acid, a part of it becomes the basis of the sugar.
 * All cane juice is liable to rapid fermentation. As soon, therefore, as the clarifier is filled, the fire is lighted, and the temper (white lime of Bristol) is stirred into it. The alkali of the lime having neutralized its superabundant acid, a part of it becomes the basis of the sugar.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:, qılıq
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 * Danish: temperament
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 * Shor: қылық
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 * Welsh: tymer
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 * Azerbaijani: əhval-ruhiyyə
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 * Serbo-Croatian: ћуд


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 * Bulgarian: отгряване, закаляване
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 * Esperanto: hardo
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 * German:, Ausheizen
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 * Tagalog: subo

Verb

 * 1) To moderate or control.
 * 2) To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
 * 3)  To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.
 * 4) To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
 * 5) To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
 * 6)  To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
 * 7)  To govern; to manage.
 * 8)  To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
 * 9)  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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 * "en"
 * 1)  To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
 * 2)  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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- Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system.


 * 1) * 1682 (first performance),, 
 * Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee / To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
 * 1)  To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.
 * 1)  To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.
 * 1)  To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
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 * Chinese:
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 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: moderigi, mildigi
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician: ,
 * German:
 * Maori: whakamauru
 * Old English: metegian
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian: отгрявам,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 淬硬
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Hebrew:
 * Japanese: 淬ぐ, 焠ぐ
 * Maori: whakapūioio, tākakā
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: subuhan
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 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: temperoida