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tempered

We have found lemma(root) word of tempered : temper.

Definitions


[ˈtɛmpə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person's state of mind seen in terms of their being angry or calm
(e.g: he rushed out in a very bad temper)

- the degree of hardness and elasticity in steel or other metal
(e.g: the blade rapidly heats up and the metal loses its temper)


Phrases:
- keep one's temper
- lose one's temper
- out of temper

Origin:
Old English temprian ‘bring something into the required condition by mixing it with something else’, from Latin temperare ‘mingle, restrain’. Sense development was probably influenced by Old French temprer ‘to temper, moderate’. The noun originally denoted a proportionate mixture of elements or qualities, also the combination of the four bodily humours, believed in medieval times to be the basis of temperament, hence temper(late Middle English). Compare with temperament


[ˈtɛmpə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- improve the hardness and elasticity of (steel or other metal) by reheating and then cooling it
(e.g: the way a smith would temper a sword)

- act as a neutralizing or counterbalancing force to (something)
(e.g: their idealism is tempered with realism)

- tune (a piano or other instrument) so as to adjust the note intervals correctly


Phrases:
- keep one's temper
- lose one's temper
- out of temper

Origin:
Old English temprian ‘bring something into the required condition by mixing it with something else’, from Latin temperare ‘mingle, restrain’. Sense development was probably influenced by Old French temprer ‘to temper, moderate’. The noun originally denoted a proportionate mixture of elements or qualities, also the combination of the four bodily humours, believed in medieval times to be the basis of temperament, hence temper(late Middle English). Compare with temperament




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