The difference between Rage and Temper

When used as nouns, rage means violent uncontrolled anger, whereas temper means a tendency to be in a certain type of mood.

When used as verbs, rage means to act or speak in heightened anger, whereas temper means to moderate or control.


check bellow for the other definitions of Rage and Temper

  1. Rage as a noun:

    Violent uncontrolled anger.

  2. Rage as a noun:

    A current fashion or fad.

    Examples:

    "Miniskirts were all the rage back then."

  3. Rage as a noun (obsolete):

    Any vehement passion.

  1. Rage as a verb (intransitive):

    To act or speak in heightened anger.

  2. Rage as a verb (intransitive):

    To move with great violence, as a storm etc.

  3. Rage as a verb (obsolete):

    To enrage.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  1. Temper as a noun:

    A tendency to be in a certain type of mood; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.

    Examples:

    "to have a good, bad, or calm temper'"

  2. Temper as a noun:

    State of mind; mood.

  3. Temper as a noun:

    A tendency to become angry.

    Examples:

    "to have a hasty temper'"

    "He has quite a temper when dealing with salespeople."

  4. Temper as a noun:

    Anger; a fit of anger.

    Examples:

    "an outburst of temper'"

  5. Temper as a noun:

    Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.

    Examples:

    "to keep one's temper; to lose one's temper; to recover one's temper"

  6. Temper as a noun (obsolete):

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

  7. Temper as a noun:

    Middle state or course; mean; medium.

  8. Temper as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "the temper of mortar"

  9. Temper as a noun:

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

  10. Temper as a noun:

    The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.

    Examples:

    "the temper of iron or steel"

  11. Temper as a noun (sugar manufacture, historical):

    Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.

  1. Temper as a verb:

    To moderate or control.

    Examples:

    "Temper your language around children."

  2. Temper as a verb:

    To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.

    Examples:

    "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. Temper as a verb:

    To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.

  4. Temper as a verb:

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

  5. Temper as a verb (music):

    To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.

  6. Temper as a verb (obsolete, [[Latinism]]):

    To govern; to manage.

  7. Temper as a verb (archaic):

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

  8. Temper as a verb (archaic):

    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.

  9. Temper as a verb (obsolete):

    To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

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