temper

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.

   “to have a good, bad, or calm temper”

2. isim State of mind; mood.

   “Remember with what mild / And gracious temper he both heard and judg’d / Without wrauth or reviling;”

3. isim A tendency to become angry.

   “to have a hasty temper”

4. isim Anger; a fit of anger.

   “an outburst of temper”

5. isim Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.

   “to keep one's temper; to lose one's temper; to recover one's temper”

6. isim Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.

   “[…] it is hard to say, whether [Christ’s] pain was more shamefull, or his shame more painfull unto him: the exquisiteness of his bodily temper, increasing the exquisiteness of his torment, and the ingenuity of his Soul, adding to his sensibleness of the indignities and affronts offered until him.”

7. isim Middle state or course; mean; medium.

   “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.”

8. isim The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.

   “the temper of mortar”

9. isim The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
10. isim 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. isim Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
12. isim A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; tempering.
13. fiil To moderate or control.

    “Temper your language around children.”

14. fiil 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 controlled reheating of the work piece to a temperature below its lower eutectic critical temperature.”

15. fiil To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.
16. fiil To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
17. fiil To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
18. fiil To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
19. fiil To govern; to manage.

    “With which the damned ghosts he governeth, / And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth.”

20. fiil To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.

    “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; […]”

21. fiil 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.

    “Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system.”

22. fiil To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

    “Thy sustenance […] serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man's liking.”