Temper vs Nature - What's the difference?
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A tendency to be of a certain type of mood.
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, title= 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.
(obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
* Fuller
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.
* Alexander Pope
* Ben Jonson
The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
Middle state or course; mean; medium.
* Macaulay
(sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
To moderate or control.
To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
* Dryden
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
(archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 3
(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
* Otway
* Byron
* Addison
(obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.
* Bible, Wisdom xvi. 21
(lb) The natural world; consisting of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production and design. e.g. the ecosystem, the natural environment, virgin ground, unmodified species, laws of nature.
* (1800-1859)
*:Nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.
*1891 , (Oscar Wilde), ''(The Decay of Lying)
*:Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. When I look at a landscape I cannot help seeing all its defects.
The innate characteristics of a thing. What something will tend by its own constitution, to be or do. Distinct from what might be expected or intended.
*1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), , Ch.1:
*:Being by nature of a cheerful disposition, the symptom did not surprise his servant, late private of the same famous regiment, who was laying breakfast in an adjoining room.
*1869 , , :
*:Mark hardly knew whether to believe this or not. He already began to suspect that Roswell was something of a humbug, and though it was not in his nature to form a causeless dislike, he certainly did not feel disposed to like Roswell.
The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I oft admire / How Nature , wise and frugal, could commit / Such disproportions.
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, title= Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artificial, or forced, or remote from actual experience.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Kind, sort; character; quality.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:A dispute of this nature caused mischief.
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*: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.
(lb) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:my days of nature
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Oppressed nature sleeps.
(lb) Natural affection or reverence.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Have we not seen / The murdering son ascend his parent's bed, / Through violated nature force his way?
(obsolete) To endow with natural qualities.
In obsolete terms the difference between temper and nature
is that temper is to fit together; to adjust; to accommodate while nature is to endow with natural qualities.As nouns the difference between temper and nature
is that temper is a tendency to be of a certain type of mood while nature is the natural world; consisting of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production and design. e.g. the ecosystem, the natural environment, virgin ground, unmodified species, laws of nature.As verbs the difference between temper and nature
is that temper is to moderate or control while nature is to endow with natural qualities.As a proper noun Nature is
the sum of natural forces reified and considered as a sentient being, will, or principle.temper
English
(wikipedia temper)Alternative forms
* tempre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)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.}}
- the temper of mortar
- The exquisiteness of his [Christ's] bodily temper increased the exquisiteness of his torment.
- to keep one's temper
- To fall with dignity, with temper rise.
- Restore yourselves to your tempers , fathers.
- the temper of iron or steel
- 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.
Derived terms
* lose one's temper * short temper * short-temperedSynonyms
* (tendency of mood) dispositionCoordinate terms
* (Heat treatment) quenchingVerb
(en verb)- Temper your language around children.
- 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.
- The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound.
- With which the damned ghosts he governeth, / And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth .
- 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;
- Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system.
- Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee / To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
- But thy fire / Shall be more tempered , and thy hope far higher.
- She [the Goddess of Justice] threw darkness and clouds about her, that tempered the light into a thousand beautiful shades and colours.
- Thy sustenance serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man's liking.
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Alternative forms
* natuer (obsolete)Noun
How to Be Manipulative, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}