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temperate | taiga |

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.

As a proper noun taiga is

a lake in alaska.

temperate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.
  • *
  • *: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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    * (geology) temperate zone, that part of the earth which lies between either tropic and the corresponding polar circle; -- so called because the heat is less than in the torrid zone, and the cold less than in the frigid zones.

    Verb

    (temperat)
  • (obsolete) To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.
  • :* It inflames temperance, and temperates wrath. Marston .

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    taiga

    English

    (wikipedia taiga)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 197:
    • The mountains run from the Arctic Island of Novaya Zemlya southwards, dividing the endless wastes of the Siberian taiga and the steppes from the Russian platform in the west.
  • * 2006 , (Thomas Pynchon), Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 871:
    • Like the taiga , he was everywhere, and mysterious—a heroic being with unearthly gifts.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
    • , author=Nancy Langston , title=Mining the Boreal North , volume=101, issue=2, page=98 , magazine= citation , passage=Reindeer are well suited to the taiga ’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.}}

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