English Dictionary

temper

/ˈtɛmpə/

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.

She has a fiery temper.

意味（1）

A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.

to have a good, bad, or calm temper

意味（2）

State of mind; mood.

Remember with what mild

And gracious temper he both heard and judg’d

Remember with what mild And gracious temper he both heard and judg’d Without wrauth or reviling;

意味（3）

A tendency to become angry.

to have a hasty temper

意味（4）

Anger; a fit of anger.

an outburst of temper

意味（5）

Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.

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

意味（6）

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

[…] it is hard to say, whether [Christ’s] pain was more shamefull, or his shame more painfull unto him: the exquisiteness of his bodily temper, increasing the exquisiteness of his torment, and the ingenuity of his Soul, adding to his sensibleness of the indignities and affronts offered until him.

意味（7）

Middle state or course; mean; medium.

The perfect lawgiver is a just temper between the mere man of theory, who can see nothing but general principles, and the mere man of business, who can see nothing but particular circumstances.

意味（8）

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

the temper of mortar

意味（9）

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

意味（10）

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

the temper of iron or steel

意味（11）

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

All cane juice is liable to rapid fermentation. As soon, therefore, as the clarifier is filled, the fire is lighted, and the temper (white lime of Bristol) is stirred into it. The alkali of the lime having neutralized its superabundant acid, a part of it becomes the basis of the sugar.