Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (vanhentunut) temper'd
Ääntäminen
US
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| espanja | templado |
| italia | temperato |
| latina | temperātus |
| ranska | trempé |
| suomi | temperoitu, muunneltu, tasavireinen, päästetty |
| venäjä | калёный (kaljonyi) |
- Tempered on sanan temper partisiipin perfekti.
- Tempered on sanan temper imperfekti.
- Tempered on sanan temper taipunut muoto.
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- (in combination) Having a specified disposition or temper.
- (metallurgy) Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals.
- Pertaining to the industrial process for toughening glass, or to such toughened glass.
- Moderated or balanced by other considerations.
- (music) Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune.
Esimerkit
- The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sun and a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leafy tongues a-whispering all at once. This aged tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale. — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, Chapter 19.
- 1851 "Not forged!" and snatching Perth's levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming -- "Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death! Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin, where the white whale most feels his accursed life!" — Herman Melville, Moby Dick.
- 1792 The downcast eye, the rosy blush, the retiring grace, are all proper in their season; but modesty, being the child of reason, cannot long exist with the sensibility that is not tempered by reflection — Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
- quenched and tempered