Mild vs Temperature - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between mild and temperature

is that mild is a relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale while temperature is the state or condition of being tempered or moderated.

As an adjective mild

is gentle and not easily provoked.

mild

English

(Webster 1913)

Adjective

(er)

Gentle and not easily provoked.

(of a rule or punishment) Of only moderate severity.

Not keenly felt or seriously intended.

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(of an illness or pain) Not serious or dangerous.

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(of weather) Moderately warm, especially less cold than expected.

(of a medicine or cosmetic) Acting gently and without causing harm.

Not sharp, or strong in flavor.

Synonyms

* soft, gentle, bland, calm, tranquil, soothing, pleasant, placid, meek, kind, tender, indulgent, clement, mollifying, lenitive, assuasive * See also

Antonyms

* strong * harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable

Noun

(en noun)

(British) A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale

* 1998 , Robert Rankin, The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag (page 112)

'Let me get this for the lady,' I said to Fange, who was pulling her a pint of mild .

* 2011 , Pete Brown, Three Sheets to the Wind

But Stella shouldn't really be drunk in pints the same way our dads used to drink bitter or mild that was effectively half as strong.

Derived terms

* mild and bitter

External links

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temperature

English

(wikipedia temperature)

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.

The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.

* , Bk.I, New York 2001, p.136:

Our intemperence it is that pulls so many several incurable diseases on our heads, that hastens old age, perverts our temperature , and brings upon us sudden death.

* 1759 , Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , Penguin 2003, p.5:

that not only the production of a rational Being was concern'd in it, but that possibly the happy foundation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind […].

* 1993 , James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love , Book II:

Only a strong dose of love will cure / A woman with an angry temperature .

A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.

The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.

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An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses.

You have a temperature ; I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.

(when not used in relation with something) The temperature(1) of the immediate environment.

The temperature dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold .

(thermodynamics) A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents. [http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055]

Quotations

* 2007 , James Shipman, Jerry Wilson, Aaron Todd, An Introduction to Physical Science: Twelfth Edition , pages 106–108: *: Heat and temperature', although different, are intimately related. [...] For example, suppose you added equal amounts of heat to equal masses of iron and aluminum. How do you think their '''temperatures''' would change? [...] if the '''temperature''' of the iron increased by 100 C°, the corresponding ' temperature change in the aluminum would be only 48 C°.

Derived terms

* apparent temperature * Hagedorn temperature * Planck temperature * temperature inversion