State vs Temper - What's the difference?

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State is a related term of temper.

As verbs the difference between state and temper

is that state is while temper is to moderate or control.

As a noun temper is

a tendency to be of a certain type of mood.

state

English

Noun

(wikipedia state) (en noun)

A polity.

# Any sovereign polity; a government.

#* 20C , (Albert Einstein), as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949)

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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# A political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy, for example one of the fifty United States. See also Province.

# (obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Well monarchies may own religion's name, / But states are atheists in their very fame.

# (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.

A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Declare the past and present state of things.

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# (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.

# (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.

# (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.

# (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.

# (obsolete) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.

High social standing or circumstance.

# Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.

# Rank; condition; quality.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Thy honour, state , and seat is due to me.

# Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.

#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

She instructed him how he should keep state , and yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes.

#* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

Can this imperious lord forget to reign, / Quit all his state , descend, and serve again?

# A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.

#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

His high throne,under state / Of richest texture spread.

#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

When he went to court, he used to kick away the state , and sit down by his prince cheek by jowl.

# (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.

#* 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :

They who to States and Governours of the Commonwealth direct their Speech.

# (obsolete) Estate, possession.

(Daniel)

#* (Philip Massinger) (1583-1640)

Your state , my lord, again is yours.

(mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.

Derived terms

* absolute state * blue state * bound state * buffer state * cat state * change of state * chief of state * city state * civilization-state * client state * cluster state * continental state * convention state * deep state * end state * excited state * failed state * federal state * feudatory state * flyover state * fogue state * free state * graph state * green state * ground state * hole state * in a state * iron state * island state * head of state * landlocked state * link state * member state * nanny state * narco state * nation-state * night watchman state * party state * police state * poppet state * princely state * pro-state * pseudostate * purple state * quantum state * red state * rogue state * rump state * save state * solid state * statehood * state flower * state of affairs * state of emergency * state of matter * state of mind * state of the arts * state capital * state house * state machine * state ownership * state pattern * state school * state secret * state space * state variable * stateside * statesman * statesmanship * steady state * swing state * transition state * wait state * unitary state * upstate * welfare state (state)

Verb

(lb) To declare to be a fact.

*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

To make known.

Usage notes

State'' is stronger or more definitive than ''say . It is used to communicate an absence of reasonable doubt and to emphasize the factual or truthful nature of the communication.

Synonyms

* See

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) stately

(Spenser)

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temper

English

(wikipedia temper)

Alternative forms

* tempre (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

A tendency to be of a certain type of mood.

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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.

the temper of mortar

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

* Fuller

The exquisiteness of his [Christ's] bodily temper increased the exquisiteness of his torment.

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.

to keep one's temper

* Alexander Pope

To fall with dignity, with temper rise.

* Ben Jonson

Restore yourselves to your tempers , fathers.

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

Middle state or course; mean; medium.

* Macaulay

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.

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

Derived terms

* lose one's temper * short temper * short-tempered

Synonyms

* (tendency of mood) disposition

Coordinate terms

* (Heat treatment) quenching

Verb

(en verb)

To moderate or control.

Temper your language around children.

To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.

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.

* Dryden

The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound.

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

With which the damned ghosts he governeth, / And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth .

(archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.

* 1610 , , act 3 scene 3

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;

(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

Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system.

* Otway

Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee / To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

* Byron

But thy fire / Shall be more tempered , and thy hope far higher.

* Addison

She [the Goddess of Justice] threw darkness and clouds about her, that tempered the light into a thousand beautiful shades and colours.

(obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

* Bible, Wisdom xvi. 21

Thy sustenance serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man's liking.

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