temperate
part of speech
adjective (temperate)
meaning for a pupil
1) A temperate climate or place is never extremely hot or extremely cold, with warm summers and cool winters. tree →
2) A temperate person is calm and controls their feelings and habits. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Sefer Yetzirah it means the mild part of the year, between hot and cold. Interpretation: The letter Aleph is linked with air, the mild season and the chest, as the balancing letter between fire and water. In the primary lessons: In geography and science, the Earth is split into climate zones: tropical (hot, near the equator), temperate (mild, between the tropics and the polar areas) and polar (very cold). The UK, Ireland, New Zealand, most of the USA, southern Canada and southern Australia have temperate climates with four seasons. Temperate forests have trees that lose leaves in autumn; temperate rainforests are cool and wet. Phrases: temperate climate, temperate zone, temperate forest, temperate rainforest.
examples
- 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) tree →
- Britain has a temperate climate, so it is rarely very hot or very cold. tree →
- Temperate places usually have four seasons. tree →
- Oak and maple trees grow in temperate forests. tree →
- New Zealand has temperate rainforests full of ferns. tree →
- The temperate zone lies between the tropics and the poles. tree →
- Penguins live in cold places, but some live in temperate New Zealand too. tree →
- But the mind of Becfola was not of this temperate quality, and, lacking Crimthann, it seemed to her that she possessed nothing. tree →
note
Adjective only. Related to «temperature» but not the same word: temperate describes a mild climate. Opposites: tropical (hot) and polar (cold). The person sense (calm, moderate) is rare for children.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «temperate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.