temper

['tempə] 1. noun

1) (a state of mind; a mood or humour: He's in a bad temper.) razpoloženje

2) (a tendency to become (unpleasant when) angry: He has a terrible temper.) razdražljivost

3) (a state of anger: She's in a temper.) jeza

2. verb

1) (to bring metal to the right degree of hardness by heating and cooling: The steel must be carefully tempered.) kaliti

2) (to soften or make less severe: One must try to temper justice with mercy.) ublažiti

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- -tempered

- keep one's temper
- lose one's temper

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I [témpə]

noun

temperament, narava, čud; značaj, karakter; razpoloženje, nastrojenje; figuratively razburjenost, razdraženost, jeza, bes(nost); figuratively obvladanost, umirjenost, mirnost; technical mešanica; primes; kakovost; trdnost, čvrstost (ilovice, gline); technical trdota (jekla itd.); obsolete (telesna) konstitucija; obsolete kompromis

in a bad temper — slabe volje, jezen (with na)

out of temper — slabe volje, jezen

even temper' — ravnodušnost

a fit of temper — napad jeze (togote)

to be in a temper — biti jezen (besen, razkačen)

to be in a good (bad) temper — biti dobro (slabo) razpoložen

to have an evil temper — biti nagle jeze, biti togoten

he has a quick temper — on hitro vzkipi

to have a sweet temper — biti blagega značaja

to get (to fly) into a temper — razjeziti se, pobesneti

to get out of temper — znevoljiti se, razjeziti se

to keep (to control) one's temper — obvladati se, brzdati se, ostati miren

to lose one's temper — razjeziti se, izgubiti potrpljenje

to put s.o. out of temper — spraviti koga v slabo voljo, razjeziti koga

to recover one's temper — umiriti se (zopet)

to show temper — kazati razdraženost

II [témpə]

transitive verb

ublažiti, olajšati, pomiriti, brzdati, oslabiti, popraviti; music umeriti, znižati, temperirati (ton); mešati, umesiti (ilovico); razredčiti (pijače); temperirati; kaliti (zlasti jeklo); ojekleniti; pripraviti, zmešati (barve)

to temper mortar — mešati malto

to temper the passions — brzdati strasti; intransitive verb omehčati se, postati popustljiv; technical imeti pravo trdoto, postati gibek, prožen