What's the difference between intemperate and soak?

Intemperate


Definition:

  • (a.) Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate to enjoyments or exertion.
  • (a.) Specifically, addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors.
  • (a.) Excessive; ungovernable; inordinate; violent; immoderate; as, intemperate language, zeal, etc.; intemperate weather.
  • (v. t.) To disorder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
  • (2) Aside from the fact that it is intemperate and inaccurate, it is also libelous.
  • (3) Fatal CHD, on the other hand, was strongly associated with registration for intemperance.
  • (4) Source: EUMETSAT The rain blame If the weather has turned intemperate, so has the argument about who is to blame.
  • (5) The targets of Karzai's often intemperate outbursts were equally frustrated, dubbing the president "feckless" and "unreliable", briefing that he was "paranoid" and possibly abusing prescription drugs.
  • (6) Over a supper of brill, roast beef, and lemon parfait, the leaders, not having to take a quick decision, seemed to chill a bit, taking the heat out of the increasingly intemperate exchanges that have marked the past few weeks.
  • (7) The consequences of alcoholic intemperance and economic problems on CHD mortality and morbidity were studied among the participants in a large primary preventive trial.
  • (8) His friend, Samuel Johnson, was a Tory and, according to Boswell, regularly "attacked the Americans with intemperate violence of abuse".
  • (9) But in Barton's case, one wonders how much his intemperateness has been detrimental to his football and to his progression in the game.
  • (10) The association of condoms with sexual intemperance, along with concerns about their efficacy, helped to support the idea that abstinence was the only acceptable prophylaxis for sexually transmitted disease.
  • (11) "He is an immensely personable, warm man, although his language at times, on issues such as gay marriage, can be intemperate," she said.
  • (12) At the extremes of this debate we have seen at times language or actions that are intemperate.
  • (13) When I ask if his public attacks on Blatter and Fifa might have been rashly intemperate, his tone is nonchalantly defiant.
  • (14) Subjects registered with the Board of Social Welfare were categorised with respect to increasing load of alcoholic intemperance.
  • (15) We've tried to conduct this debate in a sensible manner especially at a time when the economy's still pretty weak and for him to use such intemperate language really is unacceptable."
  • (16) When asked about the social media backlash from the public, Lee said: "I don't think you should judge the programme by the extreme reaction represented by a handful of very intemperate tweets."
  • (17) The quality of discourse will inevitably deteriorate and the intemperate trends we are already seeing in much of Europe will proliferate.
  • (18) A multivariate analysis was performed, controlling for smoking, systolic blood pressure and serum cholesterol, which showed that the association between intemperance and fatal CHD was independent of these factors.
  • (19) There has been intemperate and extreme comment from both sides on social media and in online commentary.
  • (20) One clue is in the stunning helicopter rescue performed by Simone Moro, Steck's climbing partner, whose intemperate language provoked the confrontation at Camp 2.

Soak


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To drench; to wet thoroughly.
  • (v. t.) To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
  • (v. t.) To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To absorb; to drain.
  • (v. i.) To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.
  • (v. i.) To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.
  • (v. i.) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (2) Others, like eight-year-old Stan – who was playing football with his mates in a corner of the beer-soaked field, has only good memories of Wales.
  • (3) They shun cost-benefit analysis but soak up aid money, saying Haiti's state is incompetent and corrupt.
  • (4) Duodenal DM flow was estimated with the indigestible markers, Cr-mordanted cell wall, Yb-soaked whole crop oat silage, and Co-EDTA.
  • (5) Boxing Day sales shoppers were soaked as downpours continued across the country on Wednesday, and there were warnings that an Atlantic storm would bring more heavy rain at the weekend.
  • (6) But Nick Loening, owner of Ecoyoga in the Scottish Highlands, is evangelical about the benefits of a good soak and gently insistent that his guests make the most of the various bathing options at his retreat – regardless of the weather.
  • (7) Sceptics think Prokhorov will be one of half a dozen "approved" candidates used to soak up discontent with his soothing talk of inexorable change, while posing no real threat to Putin's supremacy.
  • (8) In this model, an endotoxin-soaked thread is implanted in the adventitia along the ventral side of the rat femoral artery.
  • (9) Aflatoxin content in grains increased considerably with the increase in duration of soaking.
  • (10) He's got a very, very good memory and he soaks it all up."
  • (11) Sponges soaked in distilled water were implanted as controls.
  • (12) They had soaked up his blood into the soles of their boots and stamped it around in footprints that anyone who cared to might examine.
  • (13) A sample is extracted with tetrahydrofuran containing an internal standard, by sonication or overnight soaking.
  • (14) A video, seen by Guardian Australia but which we have chosen not to publish, shows Omid standing in a clearing, soaked in a liquid believed to be accelerant.
  • (15) For the detection of anthrax bacillus, sterile swabs should be soaked in the fluid of the vesicles.
  • (16) Over the same period, employment in the private sector increased by 104,000, more than soaking up public sector job losses.
  • (17) The other structures were equilibrium experiments carried out by soaking crystals in substrate containing solution.
  • (18) There was no significant change in phytic acid content of beans after soaking at 25 degrees C for 22 hours.
  • (19) Central corneal thickness (CCT) measurements after instillation of H2O2 into the cul-de-sac and after wearing H2O2 soaked soft contact lenses (SLC) for 2 h using 60 ppm, 100 ppm and 300 ppm H2O2.
  • (20) Scoop half of the chillies into a blender jar, pour in half of the soaking liquid (or water) and blend to a smooth purée.