Tame vs Temperate - What's the difference?
tame | temperate |
Not or no longer wild; domesticated
(chiefly, of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
Not exciting
Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
* Roscommon
(mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
to make something
to become
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
* Fuller
Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.
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*:Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
*(rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.
*(rfdate) (1809-1892)
*:That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings.
Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions; as, temperate in eating and drinking.
*(rfdate) (Benjamin Franklin) (1706-1790)
*:Be sober and temperate , and you will be healthy.
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*:I am a temperate man and have made it a rule not to drink before luncheon. But I was so much ashamed of my first feeling about Gorman that I thought it well to break my rule.I gave my vote for whisky and soda as the more thorough-going drink of the two. A cocktail is seldom more than a mouthful.
Proceeding from temperance.
*(rfdate) (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air.
Living in an environment that is temperate, not extreme.
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(obsolete) To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.
:* It inflames temperance, and temperates wrath. Marston .
As a noun tame
is water-source.As an adjective temperate is
moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.As a verb temperate is
(obsolete) to render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.tame
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- They have a tame wildcat.
- The lion was quite tame .
- This party is too tame for me.
- For a thriller, that film was really tame .
- tame slaves of the laborious plough
Quotations
* (English Citations of "tame")Synonyms
* (not exciting) dull, insipidAntonyms
* (not wild) wild * (mild and well-behaved) gentle * (not exciting) exciting * (mathematics) wildDerived terms
* tamely * tamenessVerb
- He tamed the wild horse.
Derived terms
* tamerExternal links
* ("tame" on Wikipedia)Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) .Verb
(tam)- In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.
