Humour vs Temper - What's the difference?
humour | temper | Related terms |
(label) Moist vapour, moisture.
Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.
*, Book I, New York 2001, p. 147:
* 1763 , (Antoine-Simon Le Page Du Pratz),
(label) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
(label) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (1633?-1684)
* (Robert South) (1634–1716)
*{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
, title=, chapter=1
, passage=[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”}}
(label) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
* (Oliver Goldsmith) (1730-1774)
* (Washington Irving) (1783-1859)
*
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour .}}
To pacify by indulging.
A tendency to be of a certain type of mood.
* , chapter=8
, title= State of mind.
* 1719- (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
(obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
* Fuller
The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
* Alexander Pope
* Ben Jonson
The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
Middle state or course; mean; medium.
* Macaulay
(sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
To moderate or control.
To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
* Dryden
To 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.
* Spenser
(archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 3
(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.
* Bancroft
* Otway
* Byron
* Addison
(obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.
* Bible, Wisdom xvi. 21
Humour is a related term of temper.
As nouns the difference between humour and temper
is that humour is (label) moist vapour, moisture while temper is a tendency to be of a certain type of mood.As verbs the difference between humour and temper
is that humour is to pacify by indulging while temper is to moderate or control.humour
English
(wikipedia humour)Alternative forms
* humor (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)- A humour is a liquid or fluent part of the body, comprehended in it, for the preservation of it; and is either innate or born with us, or adventitious and acquisite.
History of Louisisana(PG), (tr. 1774) p. 42:
- For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour , when pressed, that portended danger.
- a prince of a pleasant humour
- I like not the humour of lying.
- Examine how your humour is inclined, / And which the ruling passion of your mind.
- Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not humours to be endured?
- For thy sake I admit / That a Scot may have humour , I'd almost said wit.
- A great deal of excellent humour was expended on the perplexities of mine host.
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits.
Synonyms
* bodily fluid * (mood) mood * (something funny) comedy, wit, witticism * (quality of being amusing) amusingness, comedy, comicality, witDerived terms
* aqueous humour * black humour * crystalline humour * gallows humour * humoral * humorous * humorist * humorism * out of humour * sense of humour * toilet humour * vitreous humourVerb
- I know you don't believe my story, but humour me for a minute and imagine it to be true.
See also
* (wikipedia) ----temper
English
(wikipedia temper)Alternative forms
* tempre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}
- the temper of mortar
- The exquisiteness of his [Christ's] bodily temper increased the exquisiteness of his torment.
- to keep one's temper
- To fall with dignity, with temper rise.
- Restore yourselves to your tempers , fathers.
- the temper of iron or steel
- 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.
Derived terms
* lose one's temper * short temper * short-temperedSynonyms
* (tendency of mood) dispositionCoordinate terms
* (Heat treatment) quenchingVerb
(en verb)- Temper your language around children.
- 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.
- The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound.
- With which the damned ghosts he governeth, / And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth .
- You fools! I and my fellows
- Are ministers of fate: the elements
- Of whom your swords are temper'd may as well
- Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs
- Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish
- One dowle that's in my plume;
- Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system.
- Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee / To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
- But thy fire / Shall be more tempered , and thy hope far higher.
- She [the Goddess of Justice] threw darkness and clouds about her, that tempered the light into a thousand beautiful shades and colours.
- Thy sustenance serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man's liking.