📖 T — The English dictionary · page 12

temp — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) A temp is a worker who works for a company only for a short time, often through an agency.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) To temp is to work as a temp.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (abbreviation, informal) Temp is short for temperature: «What's the temp outside?».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (abbreviation) Temp is short for temporary, as in a temp job or a temp file.↗ Example: Mum worked as a temp in an office for a month.↗ · The temp answered the phone while the secretary was away.↗ · My brother is temping this summer.↗ · What's the temp today?↗ About 25 degrees.↗ · The dog has a high temp, so we're taking him to the vet.↗ · Write the temp in your weather chart.↗

temper — Everyday, meaning 1: Your temper is how easily you get angry: «a quick temper».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A temper or temper tantrum is a sudden fit of anger.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Lose your temper» means to get angry and stop being calm; «keep your temper» means stay calm.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To temper something is to make it milder or less strong.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To temper metal or chocolate is to heat and cool it to make it hard and strong (or shiny).↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Your temper can also mean your mood or nature, such as being cheerful or gentle.↗ Example: Try not to lose your temper.↗ · The toddler had a temper tantrum in the shop.↗ · My brother has a quick temper.↗ · He kept his temper even when they teased him.↗ · Count to ten when you feel your temper rising.↗ · The blacksmith tempered the steel.↗ · Her kindness tempered his anger.↗

temperament — Everyday, meaning 1: A person's or animal's usual nature and mood, the way they normally feel and behave.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Being moody or easily upset: «a fit of temperament».↗ Example: Our dog has a gentle temperament and loves children.↗ · She has a calm temperament and rarely gets cross.↗ · Horses with a nervous temperament spook easily.↗ · The twins look alike but have different temperaments.↗ · A goalkeeper needs the right temperament for penalties.↗ · He had a fiery temperament as a child.↗

temperate — Everyday, meaning 1: A temperate climate or place is never extremely hot or extremely cold, with warm summers and cool winters.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A temperate person is calm and controls their feelings and habits.↗ Example: Britain has a temperate climate, so it is rarely very hot or very cold.↗ · Temperate places usually have four seasons.↗ · Oak and maple trees grow in temperate forests.↗ · New Zealand has temperate rainforests full of ferns.↗ · The temperate zone lies between the tropics and the poles.↗ · Penguins live in cold places, but some live in temperate New Zealand too.↗ · But the mind of Becfola was not of this temperate quality, and, lacking Crimthann, it seemed to her that she possessed nothing.↗ · He caused the letter Aleph to reign in Air and crowned it, and combining it with the others He sealed it, as Air in the World, as the temperate (climate) of the Year, and as the chest (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

temperature — Everyday, meaning 1: Temperature tells how hot or cold something is.↗ We measure it in degrees with a thermometer.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Your body temperature is how warm your body is; normal is about 37 degrees Celsius.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To have a temperature (or run a temperature) means to have a fever.↗ Example: The temperature was 15 degrees in the morning.↗ · It rose by 8 degrees by noon.↗ · At night the temperature fell 10 degrees.↗ · How much warmer is it now?↗ · Water freezes at a temperature of 0 °C.↗ · The nurse took my temperature.↗ · Bake the cake at a temperature of 180 degrees.↗ · The temperature in the Arctic can drop to −40 degrees.↗ · 42) The meaning is, as God is the centre of the Universe, so have the macrocosm, the seasons and temperature and the microcosm, their centres receiving power from the principal centre to regulate and rule.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

tempest — Everyday, meaning 1: A tempest is a violent storm with strong wind and heavy rain.↗ Example: A tempest struck the ship.↗ · The tempest blew the trees flat.↗ · After the tempest the sea was calm.↗ · So pursue them with Thy tempest, and affright them with Thy storm.↗ (Writings PSA.83.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest stealeth him away in the night.↗ (Writings JOB.27.20, JPS 1917)↗ · I would haste me to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.'↗ (Writings PSA.55.9, JPS 1917)↗

tempestuous — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Stormy, with wild wind and rough waves.↗ Example: Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not; for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.↗ (Prophets JON.1.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Then said they unto him: 'What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us?' for the sea grew more and more tempestuous.↗ (Prophets JON.1.11, JPS 1917)↗

templar — Everyday, meaning 1: A Knight Templar: a member of a religious order of knights founded about 1119 to protect Christian pilgrims travelling to Jerusalem.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK law) A lawyer who works in the Temple, an area of law courts and offices in London.↗ Example: The Knights Templar guarded pilgrims on the road.↗ · The Templars wore white cloaks with red crosses.↗ · The Templar order was ended in 1312.↗ · We visited an old Templar church in London.↗ · Stories of Templar treasure are mostly legends.↗ · A Templar took vows like a monk.↗ · The Templars built castles in the Holy Land.↗

temple — Everyday, meaning 1: A temple is a building where people go to pray and worship in some religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Judaism, and in ancient religions.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Your temple is the flat part on each side of your head, between your eye and your ear.↗ Example: We visited a Hindu temple on our school trip.↗ · The ancient Greeks built temples to their gods.↗ · Take off your shoes before entering the temple.↗ · The Buddhist temple had a golden statue.↗ · He rubbed his temples because he had a headache.↗ · Your temple is a delicate part of your head.↗ · The ruins of the old temple stood on the hill.↗ · Her principal temples were at Argos and Samos.↗ · These seven double letters point out the dimensions, East, West, height, depth, North, South, with the holy temple in the middle, sustaining all things.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The seven double consonants are analogous to the six dimensions: height and depth, East and West, North and South, and the holy temple that stands in the centre, which carries them all.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.↗ (Prophets EZK.41.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy temples are like a pomegranate split open behind thy veil.↗ (Writings SNG.6.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Out of Thy temple at Jerusalem, whither kings shall bring presents unto Thee.↗ (Writings PSA.68.30, JPS 1917)↗

tempo — Everyday, meaning 1: (music) The tempo is the speed of a piece of music: fast, slow or in between.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Tempo is the speed or pace at which something happens, like the tempo of a game or of life in a city.↗ Example: The song has a fast tempo.↗ · We clapped along to keep the tempo.↗ · The conductor set a slow tempo for the lullaby.↗ · A metronome helps you keep a steady tempo.↗ · The team raised the tempo in the second half.↗ · Life in the city moves at a quick tempo.↗

temporal — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) Temporal means worldly, belonging to this life and not to religion or the Church.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Temporal means to do with time.↗ Example: The king had temporal power.↗ · Gold and land are temporal goods.↗ · Words like "then" and "soon" are temporal words.↗

temporarily — Everyday, meaning 1: Temporarily means for a short time only, not for ever.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Temporarily means for now, until something changes.↗ Example: The pool is temporarily closed for cleaning.↗ · The lift is temporarily out of order.↗ · We are temporarily living with my nan.↗ · The road was temporarily blocked by a fallen tree.↗ · The power went off temporarily during the storm.↗ · She temporarily lost her voice.↗ · The website is temporarily unavailable.↗

temporary — Everyday, meaning 1: Lasting for only a short time, not forever.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Used or done for a while until something permanent is ready.↗ Example: We have a temporary teacher while Mrs Lee is away.↗ · The road is closed for temporary repairs.↗ · Temporary tattoos wash off with soap.↗ · The family lived in a temporary home after the flood.↗ · The pain was only temporary.↗ · Melting chocolate is a temporary change because it can set again.↗ · The shop opened in a temporary building.↗ · Here underneath a temporary shade-house of green leaves they were to dance and feast.↗

tempt — Everyday, meaning 1: To make someone want to do or have something, especially something they should not.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To try to get someone to do something by offering something nice.↗ Example: The smell of cookies tempted me into the kitchen.↗ · I was tempted to peek at my presents.↗ · The witch tempted the children with a house made of sweets.↗ · Don't let strangers tempt you with gifts — say no and tell an adult.↗ · The cake looks so tempting!↗ · He was tempted to copy his friend's answers, but he didn't.↗ · Can I tempt you with some ice cream?↗ · Don't tempt fate by saying we'll definitely win.↗ · Why did you let yourself be tempted?↗

temptation — Everyday, meaning 1: Temptation is the feeling of wanting to do something, especially something you know is wrong or not good for you.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A temptation is a thing that makes you want to do it: «Cake is a big temptation».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Bible, church) The Temptation is the story of Jesus being tempted by the devil in the desert.↗ Example: I resisted the temptation to open my present early.↗ · The sweets on the table were a big temptation.↗ · He gave in to temptation and ate the last biscuit.↗ · In the Bible, Jesus resisted temptation in the desert.↗ · The Lord's Prayer says, «Lead us not into temptation».↗ · Leaving your homework until the last minute is a common temptation.↗ · The shop puts sweets at the till as a temptation for children.↗ · Do not stop to argue with temptation.↗ · The Twenty-fifth Path is the Intelligence of Proba- tion, or is Tentative, and is so called because it is the primary temptation, by which the Creator trieth all righteous persons.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The Twenty-fifth Path is the Intelligence of Probation, or is Tentative, and is so called because it is the primary temptation, by which the Creator (blessed be He) trieth all righteous persons.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

tempura — Everyday, meaning 1: Tempura is a Japanese dish of pieces of seafood (like prawns) or vegetables dipped in a light batter and deep-fried until crispy.↗ Example: We had prawn tempura at the Japanese restaurant.↗ · Tempura batter is made with very cold water.↗ · The sweet potato tempura was crunchy and light.↗ · Tempura is often eaten with soy-based dipping sauce.↗ · My dad tried to make tempura, but the batter was soggy.↗ · Portuguese visitors may have brought the idea of tempura to Japan in the 1500s.↗ · Vegetable tempura is good for people who don't eat meat.↗

ten — Everyday, meaning 1: Ten is the number 10.↗ It is one more than nine.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Ten is the base of our number system: 10 ones make 1 ten, and 10 tens make 100.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Ten out of ten means full marks.↗ Example: She has ten pencils.↗ · Ten children are in the group.↗ · He saves ten dollars a week.↗ · Count by tens to 100.↗ · We have ten fingers and ten toes.↗ · She got ten out of ten on the spelling test.↗ · 4 tens and 7 ones make 47.↗ · Ten times ten is one hundred.↗ · Ten or twelve crippled-beggars had encamped outside.↗ · one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense; (Torah NUM.7.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days.↗ (Torah GEN.50.3, JPS 1917)↗ · So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old.↗ (Torah GEN.50.26, JPS 1917)↗ · Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.↗ (Prophets JOS.15.57, JPS 1917)↗ · 'My beloved is white and ruddy, pre-eminent above ten thousand.↗ (Writings SNG.5.10, JPS 1917)↗ · and the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases; (Prophets 1KI.7.43, JPS 1917)↗

tenacity — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Strong determination to keep going and not give up.↗

tenancy — Everyday, meaning 1: The right to live in or use a house, flat, land or shop that you rent from the owner.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The time during which you rent a place: a six-month tenancy.↗ Example: They signed a one-year tenancy for the flat.↗ · The tenancy agreement says no pets.↗ · Rent is £600 a month, so a twelve-month tenancy costs £7,200.↗ · Their tenancy ends at the end of the month.↗ · The farmer has a tenancy on the land.↗ · Read the tenancy carefully before you sign.↗

tenant — Everyday, meaning 1: A tenant is a person who pays rent to live in a house or flat, or to use land or a building, that belongs to someone else (the landlord).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (law) Anyone who has the right to use a property for a time.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rare, formal) To tenant a place is to live in it as a tenant.↗ Example: We are tenants, so we pay rent to the landlord.↗ · The new tenants moved in next door yesterday.↗ · A tenant must look after the flat and pay the rent on time.↗ · The landlord fixed the boiler for his tenants.↗ · If a tenant pays four hundred pounds a month, how much is that in a year?↗ · Long ago, tenant farmers gave part of their crops to the lord.↗ · The shop is empty and needs a new tenant.↗ · The shop itself he sold also, and easily found a tenant for his private house.↗ · There shall no common man eat of the holy thing; a tenant of a priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.↗ (Torah LEV.22.10, JPS 1917)↗