1. • noun - a sudden outburst of anger
   • noun - a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
   • noun - a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
   • noun - the elasticity and hardness of a metal object
   • verb - bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
   • verb - harden by reheating and cooling in oil
   • verb - adjust the pitch (of pianos)
   • verb - make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
   • verb - restrain
2. • To modify by the addition of a moderating element; moderate: “temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom” (Robert H.
   • To bring to a desired consistency, texture, hardness, or other physical condition by or as if by blending, admixing, or kneading: temper clay; paints that had been tempered with oil.
   • To harden or strengthen (metal or glass) by application of heat or by heating and cooling.
   • To strengthen through experience or hardship; toughen: soldiers who had been tempered by combat.
   • To adjust finely; attune: a portfolio that is tempered to the investor’s needs.
   • To be or become tempered.
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   • Calmness of mind or emotions; composure: lose one’s temper.
   • A tendency to become easily angry or irritable: a quick temper.
   • An outburst of rage: a fit of temper.
   • A characteristic general quality; tone: heroes who exemplified the medieval temper; the politicized temper of the 1930’s.
   • The condition of being tempered.
   • The degree of hardness and elasticity of a metal, chiefly steel, achieved by tempering.
   • A modifying substance or agent added to something else.
   • A middle course between extremes; a mean.
3. • v - to moderate by adding a counterbalancing agent

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