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Kneading vs Tempering - What's the difference?

kneading | tempering |

As verbs the difference between kneading and tempering

is that kneading is present participle of lang=en while tempering is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between kneading and tempering

is that kneading is the process by which something is kneaded while tempering is the act by which something is tempered.

kneading

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process by which something is kneaded.
  • * 2004 , Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual
    • Starting at the point of shoulder, use muscle squeezings, picking-ups, kneadings and gentle frictions, interspersed with effleurages, over the triceps muscle as well as the fleshy part of the flexor and extensor muscle groups.

    tempering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is tempered.
  • * 1872 , Louis Emmanuel Gruner, The Manufacture of Steel (page 29)
    • Caron has, in fact, discovered this very curious circumstance, that a bar of steel becomes shorter under successive temperings , while it increases in size, laterally, in such a manner, that there actually is an increase of volume.