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What is the difference between fever and temperature?

fever | temperature |

Temperature is a synonym of fever.



As nouns the difference between fever and temperature

is that fever is a higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease while temperature is the state or condition of being tempered or moderated.

As a verb fever

is to put into a fever; to affect with fever.

fever

English

(wikipedia fever)

Alternative forms

* fevre (qualifier)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
  • "I have a fever . I think I've caught a cold."
  • (usually, in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.
  • scarlet fever
  • A state of excitement (of a person or people).
  • * Shakespeare
  • an envious fever
  • A group of stingrays.
  • Synonyms

    * (higher than normal body temperature): high temperature, pyrexia (medical term ), temperature * (state of excitement): excitation, excitement, passion

    Derived terms

    * abortus fever * absorption fever * acclimating fever * Aden fever * adynamic fever * aestivoautumnal fever, estivoautumnal fever * African Coast fever * African haemorrhagic fever, African hemorrhagic fever * algid pernicious fever * aphthous fever * ardent fever * arthropod-borne fever * artificial fever * aseptic fever * Assam fever * ataxic fever * autumn fever * barrel fever * Bay fever * beaver fever * benign tertian fever * biduoterian fever * biliary fever * bilious fever * bilious remittent fever * black fever * black fly fever * blackwater fever * blue fever * bouquet fever * boutonneuse fever * bovine ephemeral fever * bovine epizootic fever * bovine infectious petechial fever * bovine malignant catarrhal fever * bovine petechial fever * brain fever, brain-fever * brass founder's fever, brassfounder's fever * Brazilian purpuric fever * breakbone fever * buck fever, buck-fever * Bullis fever * bullous fever * Bunyamwera fever * Burdwan fever * Bwamba fever * cabin fever * cachectic fever, cachexial fever * California valley fever * camp fever, camp-fever * cane-cutter fever * cane-field fever, canefield fever * canicola fever * Cape Horn fever * * Carter's fever * cat-bite fever * catarrhal fever * cat fever * catheter fever * cat scratch fever, cat-scratch fever * central fever * cerebro-spinal fever, cerebrospinal fever * Chagres fever * channel fever * Charcot intermittent fever, Charcot's intermittent fever * Charcot's fever * chikungunya fever * childbed fever * childbirth fever * Choix fever * congestive fever * Congolian red fever * Congo red fever * continued fever, continuous fever * cotton fever * cotton-mill fever * country fever * Crimean fever * Cyprus fever * dance fever * dandy fever, dandy-fever * date fever * day-fever * deer fly fever, deer-fly fever * dehydration fever * dengue fever * desert fever * diary fever * digestive fever * diphasic milk fever * disfever * dock fever * double quotidian fever * drug fever * duck fever * dumdum fever * Dutch type periodic fever * East Coast fever * Ebola fever * Ebola virus fever * elephantoid fever * Elokomin fluke fever * enfever * enteric fever * entericoid fever * entrance fever * ephemeral fever * epimastical fever * eruptive fever * essential fever * exanthematous fever * exsiccation fever * falciparum fever * familial Hibernian fever * familial periodic fever * famine fever * farrowing fever * fatigue fever * * feverable * fever ague * fever and ague * fever-bark * fever blister, fever-blister * fever bush, feverbush * fever-chart * fever-cooling * fevered * feveress * feveret * fever-fly * fever grass * fever-heat * fever-hectic * feverish * feverite * fever lent * feverless * fever-lurdan, fever-lurgan * fever-lurden * fever-lurk * feverly * fever-nut * fever of unknown origin * feverous * fever pitch * fever powder, fever-powder * fever ring * * fever root, fever-root * fever-sick * fever sore, fever-sore * fever therapy * fever thermometer * fever-trap * fever treatment * fever tree, fever-tree * fever twig, fever-twig * fever-weakened * fever-weed * fever-wood * fever-wort, feverwort * fevery * field fever * five-day fever * flood fever * fog fever * Fort Bragg fever * food fever * Fort Bragg fever * Foshay-Mollaret cat-scratch fever, Foshay-Mollaret cat-scratch fever syndrome * foundryman's fever * Gambian fever * gaol fever, gaol-fever * gastric fever * gastric remittent fever * Gibraltar fever * glandular fever * gold fever, gold-fever * grain fever * green fever * haematuric bilious fever, hematuric bilious fever * haemoglobinuric fever, hemoglobinuric fever * haemorrhagic fever, hemorrhagic fever * Hankow fever * harvest fever * Hasami fever * Haverhill fever * hay fever, hay-fever * hectic fever * hempen fever * hepatic intermittent fever * herpetic fever * horse sickness fever * hospital fever * humidifier fever * icterohaemorrhagic fever, icterohemorrhagic fever * Ilheus fever * inanition fever * induced fever * inflammatory fever * intermittent fever * inundation fever * island fever * Jaccoud's dissociated fever * jail-fever, jail fever * Japanese flood fever * Japanese river fever * jungle fever, jungle-fever * jungle yellow fever * Junin fever * Katayama fever * Kedani fever * Kenya fever * Kew Gardens fever * Kinkiang fever * Korin fever * * land fever * Lassa fever * Lassa haemorrhagic fever, Lassa hemorrhagic fever * laurel fever * Lazaret fever * lechuguilla fever * Lombard fever * Lone Star fever * lung fever * malarial fever * malignant catarrhal fever * malignant tertian fever * Malta fever * Manchurian fever * Marseilles fever * marsh fever, marsh-fever * Mediterranean coast fever * Mediterranean erythematous fever * Mediterranean exanthematous fever * Mediterranean fever * meningotyphoid fever * metal fume fever * Meuse fever * Mexican fever * Mianeh fever * miliary fever * milk fever, milk-fever * mill fever * Monday fever * monoleptic fever * Mossman fever * mountain fever * mud fever * mumu fever * Murchison-Pel-Ebstein fever * Murchison-Sanderson fever * nanukayami fever * Neapolitan fever * nervous fever * nine mile fever * nodal fever * Ohio River Valley fever * o'nyong-nyong fever * Oropouche fever * Oroya fever * Pahvant Valley fever * paludal fever * papataci fever, papatasi fever, pappataci fever * papular fever * paratyphoid fever * parenteric fever * parrot fever * parturient fever * Pel-Ebstein fever * periodic fever * petechial fever * Pfeiffer's glandular fever * pharyngoconjunctival fever * phlebotomus fever * pink-fever * pinta fever * pituitous fever * polka fever * polyleptic fever * polymer fume fever * Pomona fever * Pontiac fever * Potomac fever * Potomac horse fever * pretibial fever * prison fever, prison-fever * prison fever typhus * protein fever * puerperal fever * puking fever * purple fever * putrid fever * Pym fever, Pym's fever * pyogenic fever * Q fever * query fever * rabbit fever * rat-bite fever, ratbite fever * recrudescent typhus fever * recurrent fever * recurring fever * red fever * redwater fever * relapsing fever * remittent fever * rheumatic fever * Rhodesian fever, Rhodesian redwater fever * rice-field fever * Rift Valley fever * Rock fever, rock fever * Rocky Mountain fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever * Roman fever * rose fever, rose-fever * Ross River fever * rotanny fever * run a fever * sakushu fever * Salinem fever * salt fever * sand-fly fever, sandfly fever * San Joaquin fever, San Joaquin Valley fever * Santa Marta fever * Sao Paulo fever, * scarlet fever * Schamberg fever * * secondary fever * Sennetsu fever * septic fever * Shar Pei fever * shin bone fever * ship fever, ship-fever * shipping fever * shoddy fever * Sindbis fever * slime fever * slow fever * smelter's fever * snail fever * solar fever * Songo fever * South African tick-bite fever, South African tickbite fever * spelter's fever * spirillary fever * spirillum fever * splenic fever * spotted fever * spottled fever * spring fever * sthenic fever * stockyards fever * steroid fever * stranger's fever * streptobacillary fever * summer fever * sun fever * suppurative fever * surgical fever * swamp fever * swine fever * symptomatic fever * syphilitic fever * Texas cattle fever, Texas fever * therapeutic fever * thermic fever * thirst fever * threshing fever * tick-bite fever * tick-borne fever * tick fever * Tobia fever * traumatic fever * trench fever * trypanosome fever * tsutsugamushi fever * typhoid fever * typhus fever * undifferentiated type fever * undulant fever * undulating fever * upgrade fever * urethral fever * urinary fever * urticarial fever * uveoparotid fever * valley fever * verruga fever * vivax fever * war fever * Wesselsbron fever * West African fever * West Nile fever * Whitmore's fever * winter fever * Wolhynia fever * womb fever * worm fever * wound fever * Yangtze Valley fever * yellow fever * Zika fever * zinc fume fever

    See also

    * hyperthermia

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put into a fever; to affect with fever.
  • a fevered lip
    The white hand of a lady fever thee. — Shakespeare.

    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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The climate of Tibet: Pole-land , passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
  • 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

    See also

    * Customary: degrees Fahrenheit (°F), degrees Rankine (°R, measures absolute temperature) * Metric: degrees Celsius/centigrade (°C), kelvins (K, measures absolute temperature) * * hot * warm * lukewarm * cool * cold * fresh * fever ----