HARDENS vs TEMPER: NOUN
- Abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue
- The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
- The act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact)
- A sudden outburst of anger
- A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
- The elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking
- A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
- A state of mind or emotion; disposition.
- Calmness of mind or emotions; composure.
- A tendency to become easily angry or irritable.
- The degree of hardness and elasticity of a metal, chiefly steel, achieved by tempering.
- A characteristic general quality; tone.
- The condition of being tempered.
- The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just combination.
- Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
- In sugar-works, white lime or other alkaline substance stirred into a clarifier filled with cane-juice, to neutralize the excess of acid.
- The state of a metal, particularly as to its hardness and elasticity: as, the temper of iron or steel.
- Middle character or course; mean or medium; compromise.
- Heat of mind or passion; irritation; disposition to give way to anger, resentment, or the like: as, he showed a great deal of temper.
- Calmness of mind; temperateness; moderation; self-restraint; tranquillity; good temper.
- Disposition of mind; frame of mind; inclination; humor; mood: as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a sullen or a fretful temper.
- Temperament.
- Constitution; consistency; form; definite state or condition.
- Mixture or combination of different ingredients or qualities, especially in the way and the proportions best suited for some specific purpose: as, the temper of mortar.
- Anger; rage.
- A metal or alloy added to another to produce certain physical properties; specifically, an alloy of one part of copper and two of tin to be added to pure tin to produce a fine grade of pewter; an alloy containing arsenic with lead sometimes added to the molten metal to give hardness to shot.
- A middle course between extremes; a mean.
- A modifying substance or agent added to something else.
HARDENS vs TEMPER: VERB
- Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
- Make fit
- Harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of harden.
- Become hard or harder
- Make hard or harder
- Make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate
- Adjust the pitch (of pianos)
- Harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- Toughen (steel or glass) by a process of gradually heating and cooling
- Restrain or temper
HARDENS vs TEMPER: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To be or become tempered.
- To adjust (the pitch of an instrument) to a temperament.
- To strengthen through experience or hardship; toughen.
- To harden or strengthen (metal or glass) by application of heat or by heating and cooling.
- To bring to a desired consistency, texture, hardness, or other physical condition by blending, admixing, or kneading.
- To modify by the addition of a moderating element; moderate: : moderate.
- To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable.
- To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity.
HARDENS vs TEMPER: TRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm.
- To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate.
- To govern; to manage.
- To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
- To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.
HARDENS vs TEMPER: OTHER WORD TYPES
- N/A
- In leather-manufacturing, to apply to (hides) a process in which the hides, after they are practically finished, are dampened, covered in piles, and allowed to stand and season, the drier hides absorbing moisture from the damper ones, and vice versa.
- To modify by mixing; mix; blend; combine; compound.
- To combine in due proportions; constitute; adjust; fit.
- To moisten, mix, and work up into proper consistency; prepare by moistening, mixing, or kneading.
- To modify or qualify by blending: as, to temper indignation with pity.
- Hence To restrain; moderate; mitigate; soften; tone down the violence, severity, or harshness of; mollify; soothe; calm.
- In music, to tune or adjust the pitch of (the tones of an instrument of fixed intonation, like an organ or pianoforte), with reference to a selected principle of tuning.
- To attune.
- To govern; control; regulate; train.
- To bring to a proper degree of hardness and elasticity for use, as steel or other metal.
- To dispose.
- To accord; keep agreement.
- To become soft and plastic; be molded; acquire a desired quality or state.
- Restrain
- Moderate
- Change by restraining or moderating
HARDENS vs TEMPER: RELATED WORDS
- Oxidizes, Evaporates, Stiffens, Crystallizes, Thickens, Dissolves, Melts, Softens, Sets, Gels, Inures, Strengthens, Season, Inure, Temper
- Humour, Anneal, Season, Harden, Moderate, Irritation, Chasten, Pique, Biliousness, Mood, Toughness, Humor, Peevishness, Irritability, Surliness
HARDENS vs TEMPER: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Discolors, Penetrates, Abrades, Diffuses, Coagulates, Dries, Boils, Oxidizes, Thickens, Dissolves, Sets, Gels, Inures, Season, Temper
- Pettishness, Humour, Anneal, Season, Harden, Moderate, Irritation, Chasten, Biliousness, Mood, Toughness, Humor, Peevishness, Irritability, Surliness
HARDENS vs TEMPER: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Treated skin hardens and turns a brown colour.
- In the next few hours, their cuticle hardens.
- Once the CA hardens it is very durable.
- While the ladies around her bloom, Betty hardens.
- Calcium build up hardens things, like your joints.
- Each crack of the whip hardens his hatred.
- Once there, it encapsulates their heads and hardens.
- It starts with plaque that hardens into tartar.
- Over time, plaque hardens and narrows your arteries.
- Well, Pharaoh hardens his own heart and then God judicially hardens it.
- Are you referring to his famously short temper?
- Now move along before I lost my temper.
- He has a terrible temper and suspicious nature.
- Keep your temper, my good fellow, keep your temper!
- To deprive of temper, or of the proper degree of temper; to make soft.
- Temper Embrittlement Temper embrittlement, as found in certain quenched and tempered steels, may also occur in similarly treated Ductile Irons with susceptible compositions.
- It was true he enjoyed, and his temper, liko tho temper of the Greeks, asked only this of life.
- Hard HAZs will normally be produced and it is usually advantageous to temper them, even if only by using a temper bead technique.
- The properties can be varied between soft temper and those approaching spring temper wire.
- Science and technology have fostered a new intellectual temper known as Scientific Temper.
HARDENS vs TEMPER: QUESTIONS
- What hardens the heart to the things that really matter?
- What can I use to pick up dog poop after it hardens?
- What kind of rock is formed when magma cools and hardens?
- What happens if you use a potato launcher before glue hardens?
- What happens when a man often reproved hardens his neck?
- What happens when the arterial wall thickens and hardens?
- How do you make chocolate that hardens after dipping?
- How do you temper melted chocolate without seeding?
- Do Indians lose their temper with customer service?
- Which is the best definition of ungovernable temper?
- What is qualification of temper bead welding procedure?
- How do you temper chocolate for baking strawberries?
- Can India achieve scientific temper that Nehru wanted?
- What is scientific temper according to Charles Darwin?
- What are the different temper designations of alloys?
- Why choose temper troops for commercial air conditioning?
- How many songs are there in Temper Temper by Bullet for my Valentine?