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| temper | |
| 1. sost. (psicologia) carattere, temperamento | |
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| temper | |
| 1. subst. A tendency to be in a certain type of mood; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting. |  |
| to have a good, bad, or calm temper | |
| 2. subst. State of mind; mood. | |
| 3. subst. A tendency to become angry. | |
| to have a hasty temper | |
| He has quite a temper when dealing with salespeople. | |
| 4. subst. Anger; a fit of anger. | |
| an outburst of temper | |
| 5. subst. Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure. | |
| to keep one's temper; to lose one's temper; to recover one's temper | |
| 6. subst. (obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy. | |
| 7. subst. Middle state or course; mean; medium. | |
| 8. subst. The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities. | |
| the temper of mortar | |
| 9. subst. The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment. | |
| 10. subst. The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling. | |
| the temper of iron or steel | |
| 11. subst. (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar. | |
| 12. v. To moderate or control. | |
| Temper your language around children. | |
| 13. v. To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal. | |
| 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 c | |
| 14. v. To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine. | |
| 15. v. To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency. | |
| 16. v. (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use. | |
| 17. v. (obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage. | |
| 18. v. (archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose. | |
| 19. v. (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. | |
| 20. v. (obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate. | |
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