The difference between Temper and Temperament
When used as nouns, temper means a tendency to be in a certain type of mood, whereas temperament means a moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound.
Temper is also verb with the meaning: to moderate or control.
check bellow for the other definitions of Temper and Temperament
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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'"
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Temper as a noun:
State of mind; mood.
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Temper as a noun:
A tendency to become angry.
Examples:
"to have a hasty temper'"
"He has quite a temper when dealing with salespeople."
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Temper as a noun:
Anger; a fit of anger.
Examples:
"an outburst of temper'"
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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"
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Temper as a noun (obsolete):
Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
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Temper as a noun:
Middle state or course; mean; medium.
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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"
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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.
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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"
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Temper as a noun (sugar manufacture, historical):
Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
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Temper as a verb:
To moderate or control.
Examples:
"Temper your language around children."
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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."
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Temper as a verb:
To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
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Temper as a verb:
To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
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Temper as a verb (music):
To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
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Temper as a verb (obsolete, [[Latinism]]):
To govern; to manage.
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Temper as a verb (archaic):
To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
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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.
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Temper as a verb (obsolete):
To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.
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Temperament as a noun (obsolete):
A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
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Temperament as a noun (obsolete):
Any state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.
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Temperament as a noun:
A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
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Temperament as a noun:
A tendency to become irritable or angry.
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Temperament as a noun (music):
The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
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Temperament as a noun (psychology):
Individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes.