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Saltos de línea: tem¦per
Pronunciación: /ˈtɛmpə

Definición de temper en inglés:


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mood, frame of mind, cast of mind, habit of mind, attitude
archaic humour, grain
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1.2An angry state of mind: Drew had walked out in a temper [mass noun]: I only said it in a fit of temper
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  • Molly stamps her foot in a temper.
fit of rage, rage, fury, fit of bad/ill temper, bad temper, tantrum, passion, paroxysm;
fit of pique, bad mood, mood, pet, sulk
informal grump, huff, snit
British informal strop, paddy
British informal , dated bate, wax, skid
North American informal blowout, hissy fit
archaic paddywhack, miff
2 [mass noun] The degree of hardness and elasticity in steel or other metal: the blade rapidly heats up and the metal loses its temper
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1Improve the hardness and elasticity of (steel or other metal) by reheating and then cooling it: the way a smith would temper a sword (as adjective tempered) tempered steel pins
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1.1Improve the consistency or resiliency of (a substance) by heating it or adding particular substances to it: hardboard tempered with oil or resin is more durable
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  • Some of these components can be tempered by residual heating.
harden, strengthen, toughen, fortify
technical anneal
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  • The heat is tempered by sea breezes on the coast.
Example sentences
  • The technician is trained on tempering the piano for tuning.



  • The first sense of temper was ‘a person's state of mind’, either angry or calm. The word goes back ultimately to Latin temperare ‘to mingle’, and in medieval times the noun referred to the right balance in a mixture of elements or qualities, still used of metals. It was particularly associated with the thought of the combination of the four bodily humours ( see humour) believed to control whether you were naturally calm, optimistic, melancholy, or irritable. This dictated what kind of temperament you had, a Late Middle English term from the Latin for ‘correct mixture’.


keep (or lose) one's temper

Retain (or fail to retain) composure when angry: it took all her patience to keep her temper
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informal cool
North American informal flip one's wig
Australian/New Zealand informal go crook
vulgar slang go apeshit

out of temper

In an irritable mood: on waking each day she had been out of temper
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