How to pronounce “temper”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
• State of mind; mood.
• A tendency to become angry.
• Anger; a fit of anger.
• Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
• (obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
• Middle state or course; mean; medium.
• The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
• The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
• The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
• (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
• (pottery, architecture) A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; tempering.
• [Verb]
• To moderate or control.
• To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
• (cooking) To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.
• To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
• To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
• (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
• (obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage.
• (archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
• (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.
• (obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

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