Temper vs Balance - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between temper and balance

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

As a noun temper

is a tendency to be of a certain type of mood.

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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balance
English

Alternative forms
* balaunce (obsolete)
Noun

(uncountable) a state in which opposing forces harmonise; equilibrium

(uncountable) mental equilibrium; mental health; calmness, a state of remaining clear-headed and unperturbed

something of equal weight used to provide equilibrium (literally or figuratively); counterweight

These weights are used as a balance for the overhanging verandah.

Blair thought he could provide a useful balance to Bush's policies.

a pair of scales

(uncountable) awareness of both viewpoints or matters; neutrality; rationality; objectivity

(uncountable) the overall result of conflicting forces, opinions etc.; the influence which ultimately "weighs" more than others

The balance of power finally lay with the Royalist forces.

I think the balance of opinion is that we should get out while we're ahead.

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(uncountable) apparent harmony in art (between differing colours, sounds, etc.)

(accounting) a list accounting for the debits on one side, and for the credits on the other.

(accounting) the result of such a procedure; the difference between credit and debit of an account.

I just need to nip to a bank and check my balance .

(watchmaking) a device used to regulate the speed of a watch, clock etc.

(legal) the remainder.

The balance of the agreement remains in effect.

(obsolete, astrology) Libra

Synonyms
* (scales) pair of scales, scales, weighing machine, weighbridge (for vehicles) * (equilibrium) equilibrium * (support for both viewpoints) disinterest, even-handedness, fairness, impartiality, neutrality, nonpartisanship * (list of credits and debits) account
Antonyms
* (equilibrium) nonequilibrium, imbalance, unbalance * (support for both viewpoints) bias, favor/favour, partiality, partisanship, prejudice, unfairness
Derived terms
; Accounting: * adjusted trial balance * analytical balance * balance of payments * balance sheet * balanced scorecard * closing balance * comparative balance sheet * trial balance * opening balance ; Other: * balance beam * balance of nature * balance of power * balance of trade * balance wheel * balancing act * chemical balance * hang in the balance * in the balance * keep one's balance * lose one's balance * off balance * on balance * strike a balance * throw off balance
Verb
(balanc)
To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights.

To make (items) weigh up.

(figurative) To make (concepts) agree.

* Kent

One expression must check and balance another.

To hold (an object or objects) precariously; to support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling.

I balanced my mug of coffee on my knee.

The circus performer balances a plate on the end of a baton.

To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.

* L'Estrange

Balance the good and evil of things.

(dancing) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally.

to balance partners

(nautical) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass.

to balance the boom mainsail

To make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond.

This final payment, or credit, balances the account.

to balance a set of books

* Addison

I am very well satisfied that it is not in my power to balance accounts with my Maker.

To be in equilibrium.

To have matching credits and debits.

Derived terms
* balanced * balance out * balance the books
See also
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