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Synonyms for tempering
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : tem-per |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɛm pər |
Top 10 synonyms for tempering Other synonyms for the word tempering
- adjust
- admix
- anneal
- bake
- braze
- cement
- chill
- chill out
- congeal
- cool out
- dry
- fine tune
- indurate
- make reasonable
- modulate
- mold
- mollify
- monkey around with
- pacify
- palliate
- petrify
- relieve
- restrain
- revamp
- set
- soft-pedal
- soften
- solidify
- soothe
- starch
- steel
- stiffen
- strengthen
- switch
- take the bite out of
- take the edge off
- take the sting out of
- tone down
- toughen
- toughen up
- transmogrify
- weaken
Définition of tempering
Origin :- late 14c., "due proportion of elements or qualities," from temper (v.). The sense of "characteristic state of mind" is first recorded 1590s; that of "calm state of mind" in c.1600; and that of "angry state of mind" (for bad temper) in 1828. Meaning "degree of hardness and resiliency in steel" is from late 15c.
- verb calm, moderate
- verb harden
- The crooked knives he makes, too, from old files, shaping and tempering them.
- Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace
- The tempering of tools is a very important factor in their efficiency.
- Extract from : « Wood-Carving » by George Jack
- The furnace should be connected with pyrometers and tempering tank with a thermometer.
- Extract from : « The Working of Steel » by Fred H. Colvin
- The process of tempering the gun-tubes was also witnessed by the Board.
- Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 » by Various
- He looked upon his duty as that of restraining and tempering Elwood's impulsiveness.
- Extract from : « Adrift in the Wilds » by Edward S. Ellis
- There is a proverb which talks about God "tempering the wind to the shorn lamb."
- Extract from : « Talks To Farmers » by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The following mode of tempering them is practised at Neustadt.
- Extract from : « A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines » by Andrew Ure
- The hardening and tempering of the punch is of 117 importance.
- Extract from : « The Silversmith's Handbook » by George E. Gee
- It is the same in old processes such as the tempering of a sword.
- Extract from : « Chats on Old Sheffield Plate » by Arthur Hayden
- This is as it were a tempering of the awful wrath of God upon Cain.
- Extract from : « Commentary on Genesis, Vol. I » by Martin Luther
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