Definizione monolingua

temper

temper (third-person singular simple present tempers, present participle tempering, simple past and past participle tempered)

1. To moderate or control.

   Temper your language around children.

2. To heat-treat a material, especially metal or chocolate.

   Next, temper 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..

3. To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency

temper (plural tempers)

1. A tendency to be of a certain type of mood.

   To have a good temper ; a bad temper.

   He has quite a (bad) temper when dealing with salespeople.

2. State of mind.
   • 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     ...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...

3. The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.

Definizione dizionario temper

umore

carattere

collera

disposizione

furia

moderare

modificare

temperamento

temperare

tempra

temprare

Altri significati:

to heat-treat

The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.

State of mind.

heat treatment

tendency to anger or lose patience easily

To moderate or control.

To heat-treat a material, particularly a metal.

to moderate or control

state of mind

To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency

A tendency to anger or lose patience easily.