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temperate | triplefin |

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 triplefin is

any of approximately 150 blennioid species of the family tripterygiidae, found in tropical and temperate waters, whose dorsal fin is separated into three parts, two of them spinous.

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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    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * (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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    Anagrams

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    triplefin

    English

    (wikipedia triplefin) (Tripterygiidae)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of approximately 150 blennioid species of the family Tripterygiidae, found in tropical and temperate waters, whose dorsal fin is separated into three parts, two of them spinous.

    • Synonyms

    * threefin