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Tempting vs Temp - What's the difference?

tempting | temp |

As nouns the difference between tempting and temp

is that tempting is the act of subjecting somebody to temptation while temp is time.

As an adjective tempting

is attractive, appealing, enticing.

As a verb tempting

is .

tempting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Attractive, appealing, enticing.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
  • Seductive, alluring, inviting.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.
  • * (William Bridge)
    • If God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?

    temp

    English

    (wikipedia temp)

    Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • temperature
  • temporary

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • a temporary employee, usually in an office
  • (computing, informal, mostly, attributive) a temporary storage location
  • * 2001 , John Y. Hsu, Computer Architecture: Software Aspects, Coding, and Hardware
    • Consequently, the unit executes and places the result in a temp register.
  • * 2014 , Andrew W. Appel, Program Logics for Certified Compilers (page 162)
    • That is, r -values include numeric constants, nonaddressable local variables (temps )

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To work as a temporary employee.
  • * 2007 , , 01:24:50
  • *:--I temp for money, but it's not my main thing. I write plays.