Temperate vs Temperature - What's the difference?
temperate | temperature |
Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.
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*: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.
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*: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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(obsolete) To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.
:* It inflames temperance, and temperates wrath. Marston .
(obsolete) The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
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* 1759 , Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , Penguin 2003, p.5:
* 1993 , James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love , Book II:
A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
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, title= An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses.
(when not used in relation with something) The temperature(1) of the immediate environment.
(thermodynamics) A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents. [http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055]
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 noun temperature is
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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
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(en noun)- Our intemperence it is that pulls so many several incurable diseases on our heads, that hastens old age, perverts our temperature , and brings upon us sudden death.
- that not only the production of a rational Being was concern'd in it, but that possibly the happy foundation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind […].
- Only a strong dose of love will cure / A woman with an angry temperature .
- The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.
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- You have a temperature ; I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.
- The temperature dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold .
