Temper vs Still - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between temper and still

is that temper is to fit together; to adjust; to accommodate while still is to trickle, drip.

In lang=en terms the difference between temper and still

is that temper is to adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use while still is a resident of the Falkland Islands.

As nouns the difference between temper and still

is that temper is a tendency to be of a certain type of mood while still is a period of calm or silence.

As verbs the difference between temper and still

is that temper is to moderate or control while still is to calm down, to quiet.

As an adjective still is

not moving; calm.

As an adverb still is

up to a time, as in the preceding time.

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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still
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Related to (l).
Alternative forms
* (l) * (l), (l), (l) (obsolete)
Adjective
(en-adj)
Not moving; calm.

Still waters run deep.

Not effervescing; not sparkling.

still''' water; '''still wines

Uttering no sound; silent.

* Addison

The sea that roared at thy command, / At thy command was still .

(not comparable) Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time

* {{quote-news, 2007, January 3, Gerry Geronimo, Unwanted weed starts to sprout from a wayward ponencia, Manila Standard citation
, passage=To follow the still President’s marching orders, all that Secretary Ronnie Puno has to do is to follow the road map laid out by Justice Azcuna in his “separate” opinion. }}
Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.

* Bible, 1 Kings xix. 12

a still small voice

(obsolete) Constant; continual.

* Shakespeare

By still practice learn to know thy meaning.

Synonyms
* (not moving) fixed, stationary, unmoving * See also
Derived terms
* stillness
Related terms
* be still my heart * be still my beating heart * still waters run deep
Adverb
(-)
(aspect) Up to a time, as in the preceding time.

* Francis Bacon

It hath been anciently reported, and is still received.

* , chapter=15
, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
*

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.

* {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
, page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}

(degree) To an even greater degree.

("still" and "taller" can easily swap places here)

* Shakespeare

The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed.

(conjunctive) Nevertheless.

* Moore

As sunshine, broken in the rill, / Though turned astray, is sunshine still .

(archaic, poetic) Always; invariably; constantly; continuously.

* 1609 (William Shakespeare), Troilus and Cressida 5.2.201-202:

Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion.

* Addison

The desire of fame betrays an ambitious man into indecencies that lessen his reputation; he is still afraid lest any of his actions should be thrown away in private.

* Boyle

Chemists would be rich if they could still do in great quantities what they have sometimes done in little.

(extensive) .

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Sarah Glaz
, title= Ode to Prime Numbers , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}

Synonyms
* (up to a time) yet * (to an even greater degree) yet, even * (nevertheless) nonetheless, though, yet
Noun
(en noun)
A period of calm or silence.

the still of the night

(photography) A non-moving photograph. (The term is generally used only when it is necessary to distinguish from movies.)

(slang) A resident of the Falkland Islands.

A steep hill or ascent.

Etymology 2
Via (etyl), ultimately from (etyl) stilla
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia still)
a device for distilling liquids.

(catering) a large water boiler used to make tea and coffee.

(catering) the area in a restaurant used to make tea and coffee, separate from the main kitchen.

A building where liquors are distilled; a distillery.

See also
* pot still
Etymology 3
(etyl) stillan
Verb
(en verb)
to calm down, to quiet

to still the raging sea

* Woodward

He having a full sway over the water, had power to still and compose it, as well as to move and disturb it.

* Shakespeare

With his name the mothers still their babies.

* Hawthorne

toil that would, at least, have stilled an unquiet impulse in me

Etymology 4
Aphetic form of distil, or from (etyl) (lena) stillare.
Verb
(en verb)
(obsolete) To trickle, drip.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:

any drop of slombring rest / Did chaunce to still into her wearie spright [...].

To cause to fall by drops.

To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.

(Tusser)

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