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
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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."
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Fever as a noun (usually, in combination with one or more preceding words):
Any of various diseases.
Examples:
"[[scarlet fever]]"
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Fever as a noun:
A state of excitement or anxiety.
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Fever as a noun:
A group of stingrays.
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Fever as a verb:
To put into a fever; to affect with fever.
Examples:
"a fevered lip"
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Fever as a verb:
To become fevered.
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Temperature as a noun (obsolete):
The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
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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.
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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]]."
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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."
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Temperature as a noun:
The temperature(1) of the immediate environment.
Examples:
"The temperature dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold''."
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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]