The difference between Fever and Temperature

When used as nouns, fever means a higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease, whereas temperature means the state or condition of being tempered or moderated.


Fever is also verb with the meaning: to put into a fever.

check bellow for the other definitions of Fever and Temperature

  1. Fever as a noun:

    A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.

    Examples:

    "I have a fever. I think I've the flu."

  2. Fever as a noun (usually, in combination with one or more preceding words):

    Any of various diseases.

    Examples:

    "[[scarlet fever]]"

  3. Fever as a noun:

    A state of excitement or anxiety.

  4. Fever as a noun:

    A group of stingrays.

  1. Fever as a verb:

    To put into a fever; to affect with fever.

    Examples:

    "a fevered lip"

  2. Fever as a verb:

    To become fevered.

  1. Temperature as a noun (obsolete):

    The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.

  2. Temperature as a noun (now, _, rare, archaic):

    The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.

  3. Temperature as a noun:

    A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.

    Examples:

    "The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees [[Celsius]]."

  4. Temperature as a noun:

    An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses.

    Examples:

    "You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick."

  5. Temperature as a noun:

    The temperature(1) of the immediate environment.

    Examples:

    "The temperature dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold''."

  6. Temperature as a noun (thermodynamics):

    A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents. [http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055]

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