Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (vanhentunut) tempre
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Verbi
- To moderate or control.
- To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
- (cooking) To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.
- To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
- To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
- (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
- (obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage.
- (archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
- (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.
- (obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.
Substantiivi
- A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
- State of mind; mood.
- A tendency to become angry.
- Anger; a fit of anger.
- Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
- (obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
- Middle state or course; mean; medium.
- The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
- The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
- The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
- (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
- (pottery, architecture) A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; tempering.
Esimerkit
- to have a good, bad, calm, or hasty temper
- He has quite a (bad) temper when dealing with salespeople.
- Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
- [...]I must testify, from my experience, that a temper of peace, thankfulness, love, and affection, is much the more proper frame for prayer than that of terror and discomposure[...]
- the temper of mortar
- The exquisiteness of his [Christ's] bodily temper increased the exquisiteness of his torment.
- to keep one's temper
- To fall with dignity, with temper rise.
- Restore yourselves to your tempers, fathers.
- the temper of iron or steel
- The perfect lawgiver is a just temper between the mere man of theory, who can see nothing but general principles, and the mere man of business, who can see nothing but particular circumstances.
- Temper your language around children.
- 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.
- The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound.
- With which the damned ghosts he governeth, / And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth.
- You fools! I and my fellows
- Are ministers of fate: the elements
- Of whom your swords are temper'd may as well
- Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs
- Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish
- One dowle that's in my plume; [...]
- Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system.
- Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee / To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
- But thy fire / Shall be more tempered, and thy hope far higher.
- She [the Goddess of Justice] threw darkness and clouds about her, that tempered the light into a thousand beautiful shades and colours.
- Thy sustenance [...] serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man's liking.
- He is always having tempers and tantrums.
- to lose one's ~
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | tempered | Partisiipin perfekti | temper'd (vanhentunut) |
| Imperfekti | tempered | Imperfekti | temper'd (vanhentunut) |
| Partisiipin preesens | tempering | Monikko | tempers |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | tempers | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | tempereth (vanhahtava) |