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noun
- A tendency to anger or lose patience easily.
- He has quite a when dealing with salespeople.
- The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
verb
- To moderate or control.
- Temper your language around children.
- To heat-treat a material, particularly a metal.
- Next, the steel by dropping the white hot metal into cold water.
- To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency
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