Temper vs Forge - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between temper and forge

is that temper is a tendency to be of a certain type of mood while forge is furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.

As verbs the difference between temper and forge

is that temper is to moderate or control while forge is to shape a metal by heating and hammering.

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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forge
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) forge, early Old French faverge, from (etyl) (genitive fabri).
Noun
(wikipedia forge) (en noun)
Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.

Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.

The act of beating or working iron or steel.

* Francis Bacon

In the greater bodies the forge was easy.

Etymology 2
From (etyl) forger, from (etyl) forgier, from (etyl) .
Verb

(lb) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Mars's armor forged for proof eterne

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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.

To form or create with concerted effort.

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*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

*:Those names that the schools forged , and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.

* (1809-1892)

*:do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves.

To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.

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To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.

*1663 , , (Hudibras)

*:That paltry story is untrue, / And forged to cheat such gulls as you.

Etymology 3
Make way, move ahead'', most likely an alteration of ''force , but perhaps from , via notion of steady hammering at something. Originally nautical, in referrence to vessels.
Verb

(often as forge ahead ) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.

The party of explorers forged through the thick underbrush.

We decided to forge ahead with our plans even though our biggest underwriter backed out.

* De Quincey

And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.

(sometimes as forge ahead ) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

With seconds left in the race, the runner forged into first place.

Derived terms
* forgery
See also
* fabricate * make up * blacksmith
Anagrams
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