What's the difference between attemper and temper?
Attemper
Definition:
(v. t.) To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature.
(v. t.) To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice with clemency.
(v. t.) To mix in just proportion; to regulate; as, a mind well attempered with kindness and justice.
(v. t.) To accommodate; to make suitable; to adapt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both the in vitro and the in vivo aspects of the problem are discussed in some detail and an attemps is made to provide a reasonably unified concept for both.
(2) Tottenham’s Danny Rose apologises for setting bad example in Chelsea draw Read more The ill feeling spilled over into the tunnel at the end as Spurs and Chelsea players got involved in a rolling maul which led to the home manager Guus Hiddink being sent flying and his counterpart Mauricio Pochettino attemping to prise the multiple brawlers apart.
(3) Ninety-three were complete amputations and 80 of these survived; 49 were incomplete amputations and 46 survived after revascularization attemps.
(4) This study attemped to identify traits that might be described as "typical" of black elementary school children.
(5) The letest attemp to treat O. i. is the application of calcitonin.
(6) As an attemp to improve the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of neoplastic neck nodes, we are evaluating ultrasound B-scans.
(7) The prevention of recurrences of bladder cancer was attemped in 48 patients by means of the combined intravesical instillation of thio-tepa and urokinase and in 28 patients through the instillation of thio-tepa alone.
(8) The authors have attemped to give characteristics of the epileptical syndrome, provocated by ascarides and seat-worms.
(9) Although these attemps have been unsuccessful thus far, the approach described in this report provides an example of an objective, quantitative, biochemical assessment of ciliary function.
(10) This work attemps to find, by the technique of the one-step growth curve in suspended cells, if the virus replication scheme is similar to other poxviruses.
(11) In the Berlevag project attemps have been made at using psycho-physiological and cognitive measures as indexes of psychiatric morbidity.--With skin conductance response, psychotics and neurotics showed signs of autonomic inhibition compared with conduct disorders and normal controls.
(12) Attemps to correlate phenytoin ClB with basal metabolic rate also failed.
(13) Reference is made to several attemps of limiting or reducing the popularity of their use which took place in mid eighties.
(14) Attemps at immunotherapy over the years are reviewed and new directions are presented.
(15) Five patients underwent peroperative haemodynamic assessment in order to attemps to define the role of nitroglycerine used during this period.
(16) This work encompasses a 20-year period, during which a urologist spent an important part of his time in a children's hospital, because of his conviction that attemps at effective treatment of urinary passage anomalies in childhood have a chance only when treatment is begun as early as possible.
(17) Attemps for mechanical or physical factors as explanation are not convincing.
(18) This letter attemps to show that previously published reports claiming that irrigation of the vas after vasectomy, with nitrofurans or euflavine solutions does not dispense with the need for subsequent semen analyses.
(19) The 2014 budget was a very serious structural attempt to tackle our long-term spending problems.” Abbott defended the cuts to health and education and other measures in the Coalition’s deeply unpopular 2014 budget, which led to a run of dismal opinion polls for the Coalition ending in Abbott’s ousting.
(20) This study attemped to isolate some of the stimulus variables that controlled the self-destructive behavior of a psychotic child.
Temper
Definition:
(v. t.) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm.
(v. t.) To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate.
(v. t.) To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel.
(v. t.) To govern; to manage.
(v. t.) To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.
(v. t.) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
(n.) The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just combination; as, the temper of mortar.
(n.) Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
(n.) Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper.
(n.) Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one's temper.
(n.) Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; -- in a reproachful sense.
(n.) The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling; as, the temper of iron or steel.
(n.) Middle state or course; mean; medium.
(n.) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
(v. i.) To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity.
(v. i.) To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable.
Example Sentences:
(1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(2) No definite relationship could be established between the biochemical reactions and the flagellar antigens of the lysogenic strain and its temperate phage though some temperate phages released by E. coli O119:B14 strains with certain flagellar antigens did give specific lytic patterns and were serologically identical.
(3) It begins with the origins of treatment in the self-help temperance movement of the 1830s and 1840s and the founding of the first inebriate homes, tracing in the United States the transformation of these small, private, spiritually inclined programs into the medically dominated, quasipublic inebriate asylums of the late 19th century.
(4) A temperate phage was induced from exponential phase cells of Erwinia herbicola Y46 by treatment with mitomycin C. The phage was purified by single plaque isolation, and produced in bulk by successive cultivation in young cultures of E. herbicola Y 178.
(5) A truncated form of the HBL murein hydrolase, encoded by the temperate bacteriophage HB-3, was cloned in a pUC-derivative and translated in Escherichia coli using AUC as start codon, as confirmed by biochemical, immunological, and N-terminal analyses.
(6) Group II (21%) included virulent and temperate phages with small isometric heads.
(7) Diagnostic methods which reveal only the presence or absence of Ostertagia in grazing animals are of little importance since all will acquire some degree of infection when grazed in the temperate regions of the world.
(8) Recently, methods have been developed to distinguish between human and animal faecal pollution in temperate climates.
(9) The recent enthusiasm for the combined Collis-Belsey operation should be tempered by continued, cautious, objective assessment of its long-term results.
(10) These differences in susceptibility are due, in part, to immunity imposed by temperate phages carried by the different strains.
(11) Therefore, production of turimycin is not controlled by the isolated temperate phage.
(12) On at least three independent occasions a 1.6 kb segment of Streptomyces coelicolor DNA was detected in apparently the same location in an attP-deleted derivative of the temperate phage phiC31 that carried a selectable viomycin resistance gene.
(13) These results indicated that gender tempers the effect of family type on adolescent adjustment.
(14) However, its use must be tempered with an appreciation of the limitations of the new technique and knowledge of the circumstances in which it may yield erroneous results.
(15) The infection of Bacillus thuringiensis, B. cereus, B. mesentericus and B. polymyxa strains with temperate E. coli bacteriophage Mu cts62 integrated into plasmid RP4 under conditions of conjugative transfer is shown possible.
(16) As newer techniques are developed, it is mandatory that the application of these techniques be tempered with controlled clinical trials, documenting their effectiveness.
(17) Such lesions are quite common in subtropical and tropical climates, and a review of the literature indicates that the incidence of this formerly rare entity is increasing in temperate climates.
(18) Calculated values of residual compressive stress for tempered specimens were considerably higher than those for specimens that were slowly cooled and those that were cooled by free convection.
(19) Three sedentary men underwent a 3-mo period of endurance training in a temperate climate, (dry bulb temperature (Tdb): 18 degrees C) and had their sweating sensitivity measured before and after the training period.
(20) This level of susceptibility is higher than that found in most temperate countries and mainland populations, and similar to descriptions in a few island and rural populations in the tropics.