Množina: tempers

1. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; SYN. mood, humor, humour.
2. A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; SYN. biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness.
3. The elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking; SYN. toughness.

1. To adjust the pitch (of pianos).
2. To harden by reheating and cooling in oil; SYN. harden.
3. To make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate; SYN. season.

Množina: temperas

ETYM Italian.
Pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk; SYN. poster paint, poster color.
Painting using white of egg instead of oil.
Painting with white of egg or similar medium replacing oil.
Painting medium in which powdered pigments are mixed with a water-soluble binding agent such as egg yolk. Tempera is noted for its strong, translucent colors. A form of tempera was used in ancient Egypt, and egg tempera was the foremost medium for panel painting in late medieval and early Renaissance Europe. It was gradually superseded by oils from the late 15th century onward.
In the 20th century it has been used by us painter Andrew Wyeth.

Množina: temperaments

ETYM Latin temperamentum a mixing in due proportion, proper measure, temperament: cf. French tempérament. Related to Temper.
In music, a system of tuning (“tempering”) the pitches of a mode or scale whereby intervals are lessened or enlarged, away from the “natural”. In folk music this is done to preserve its emotional or ritual meaning; in Western music to allow a measure of freedom in changing key. J S Bach composed The Well-Tempered Clavier, a sequence of 48 preludes and fugues in every key of the chromatic scale, to demonstrate the superior versatility of tempered tuning.
Excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly).

Relating to or caused by temperament

By temperament.

Singular of temperaments is temperament.

Množina: Temperances

Unincorporated community in Michigan (USA).

Množina: temperances

ETYM Latin temperantia: cf. French tempérance. Related to Temper.
The trait of avoiding excesses; SYN. moderation.

Množina: temperance movements

Societies dedicated to curtailing the consumption of alcohol by total prohibition, local restriction, or encouragement of declarations of personal abstinence (“the pledge”). Temperance movements were first set up in the US, Ireland, and Scotland, then in the N of England in the 1830s.
The proponents of temperance were drawn from evangelical or nonconformist Christians, labor unionists, Chartists, members of cooperatives, the self-help movement, and the Church of England. After 1871 the movement supported the Liberal Party in its attempts to use the licensing laws to restrict the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

Singular of temperances is temperance.

Singular of temperas is tempera.

ETYM Latin temperatus, p. p. of temperare. Related to Temper.
1. Not extreme in behavior.
2. (Of weather or climate) Free from extremes; mild; or characteristic of such weather or climate.

Množina: temperate rain forests

Woodland of a usually rather mild climatic area within the temperate zone that receives heavy rainfall, usually includes numerous kinds of trees, and is distinguished from a tropical rain forest especially by the presence of a dominant tree.