TEMPER

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temper I. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a pune în ordine, a reglementa, a modera, a tempera, a potoli, a cumpăta, a restrânge, a reduce, a alina, a uşura, a calma.

2. a face un amestec, a arnesteca, a produce prin amestecare.

3. (metal.) a căli, a oţeli.

4. (înv.) a adapta.

5. (tehn.) a muia, a amesteca şi frământa.

3. (muz.) a tempera, a potoli.

temper I. verb B. intranzitiv

1. (metal.) a deveni maleabil.

2. a deveni moderat / conciliant / blând.

temper II. substantiv

1. caracter, fire, temperament.

2. dispoziţie, capriciu, toane;

to lose one's temper a-şi pierde cumpătul, a-şi ieşi din fire.

3. calm, echilibru;

to recover / to regain one's temper a-şi redobândi calmul;

equal / even temper calm, dispoziţie sufletească egală;

of a soft / mild temper blând;

to keep one's temper a-şi păstra firea, a se stăpâni, a rămâne calm.

4. iritabilitate, mânie, supărare, necaz;

to show a temper a arăta / a manifesta iritaţia / supărarea / mânia / necazul;

to get into a temper a se supăra, a se înfuria, a se necăji.

5. amestec, combinaţie, aliaj, soluţie.

3. (metal.) grad de tărie şi elasticitate, grad de călire.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I believe he is one of the very best-tempered men that ever existed.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

There goes a temper which would never give pain!

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Better for us that we cannot as a general thing, but now and then it would be such a comfort, such a saving of time and temper.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

She joined Charles and Mary, and was tired enough to be very glad of Charles's other arm; but Charles, though in very good humour with her, was out of temper with his wife.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

She compelled obedience from him, and the older he grew the shorter grew her temper.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

On that occasion, he again, with a full heart, acknowledged that God had tempered judgment with mercy.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

A conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, for my father was a man of a very violent temper.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It was my rough words which vexed you; but I have been thrown among men all my life, and indeed, with all the will, I scarce know how to temper my speech to a lady's ear.”

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He loved her, I am persuaded, as well as it was possible for him to—we have not all, you know, the same tenderness of disposition—and I will not pretend to say that while she lived, she might not often have had much to bear, but though his temper injured her, his judgment never did.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

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