Definitions
1.verbTo moderate or control."Temper your language around children."
2.verbTo strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal."Tempering is a heat treatment technique applied to metals, alloys, and glass to achieve greater toughness by increasing the strength of materials and/or ductility. Tempering is performed by a controlled reheating of the work piece to a temperature below its lower eutectic critical temperature."
3.verbTo sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
4.verbTo mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
5.verbTo adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
6.verb(Latinism) To govern; to manage.
7.verbTo combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
8.verbTo 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.
9.verbTo fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.
10.nounThe act by which something is tempered.