Stirring vs Temper - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between stirring and temper

is that stirring is present participle of lang=en while temper is to moderate or control.

As nouns the difference between stirring and temper

is that stirring is an occasion on which something stirs or is stirred while temper is a tendency to be of a certain type of mood.

As an adjective stirring

is invigorating or inspiring.

stirring

English

Adjective

(head)

invigorating or inspiring

As he had said, his voice was hoarse, but he sang well enough, and it was a stirring tune, something between 'Clementine' and 'La Cucaracha'.

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, year=2011 , date=March 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=But Chelsea, who left Didier Drogba on the bench as coach Carlo Ancelotti favoured Fernando Torres, staged a stirring fightback to move up to fourth and keep United in their sights on a night when nothing other than victory would have kept the Blues in contention.}}

* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]

*:The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.

Verb

(head)

Noun

(en noun)

(gerund of stir) An occasion on which something stirs or is stirred

* {{quote-news, 2009, January 16, Carter Dougherty, European Central Bank Cuts Key Rate, New York Times citation

, passage=The reduction takes the central bank back to where it was in December 2005, when it began raising its key rate despite objections from some political figures and many economists about choking the early stirrings of a recovery in growth. }}

temper

English

(wikipedia temper)

Alternative forms

* tempre (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

A tendency to be of a certain type of mood.

* , chapter=8

, title= 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.}}

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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