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Word: Temper
Speech Type: Noun
Old English temprian ‘bring something into the required condition by mixing it with something else’, from Latin temperare ‘mingle, restrain’. Sense development was probably influenced by Old French temprer ‘to temper, moderate’. The noun originally denoted a proportionate mixture of elements or qualities, also the combination of the four bodily humours, believed in medieval times to be the basis of temperament, hence temper (sense 1 of the noun)(late Middle English). Compare with temperament
ˈtɛmpə
a person's state of mind seen in terms of their being angry or calm
Short Definition:person's state of mind
Examples:- he rushed out in a very bad temper
the degree of hardness and elasticity in steel or other metal
Short Definition:degree of hardness and elasticity in steel
Examples:- the blade rapidly heats up and the metal loses its temper
Word: Temper
Speech Type: Verb
ˈtɛmpə
improve the hardness and elasticity of (steel or other metal) by reheating and then cooling it
Short Definition:improve hardness and elasticity of metal
Examples:- the way a smith would temper a sword
- tempered steel pins
act as a neutralizing or counterbalancing force to (something)
Short Definition:act as neutralizing or counterbalancing force to
Examples:- their idealism is tempered with realism
tune (a piano or other instrument) so as to adjust the note intervals correctly.
Short Definition:tune piano
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