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Meaning of temper

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  temper
      n 1: a sudden outburst of anger; "his temper sparked like damp
           firewood" [syn: {pique}, {temper}, {irritation}]
      2: a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of
         feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his
         temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" [syn: {temper},
         {mood}, {humor}, {humour}]
      3: a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was
         well known to all his employees" [syn: {temper},
         {biliousness}, {irritability}, {peevishness}, {pettishness},
         {snappishness}, {surliness}]
      4: the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to
         absorb considerable energy before cracking [syn: {temper},
         {toughness}]
      v 1: bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a
           process of gradually heating and cooling; "temper glass"
           [syn: {anneal}, {temper}, {normalize}]
      2: harden by reheating and cooling in oil; "temper steel" [syn:
         {temper}, {harden}]
      3: adjust the pitch (of pianos)
      4: make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding
         something else; moderate; "she tempered her criticism" [syn:
         {temper}, {season}, {mollify}]
      5: restrain [syn: {chasten}, {moderate}, {temper}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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