Tempering is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TEMPERING in dictionary:

VERB:
• improve the hardness and elasticity of (steel or other metal) by reheating and then cooling it
• improve the consistency or resiliency of (a substance) by heating it or adding particular substances to it
• act as a neutralizing or counterbalancing force to (something)
• tune (a piano or other instrument) so as to adjust the note intervals correctly.
NOUN:
• the act of tempering
• a tendency to become angry easily
• an angry state of mind
• the degree of hardness and elasticity in steel or other metal
• The process of giving the requisite degree of hardness or softness to a substance, as iron and steel; especially, the process of giving to steel the degree of hardness required for various purposes, consisting usually in first plunging the article, when heated to redness, in cold water or other liquid, to give an excess of hardness, and then reheating it gradually until the hardness is reduced or drawn down to the degree required, as indicated by the color produced on a polished portion, or by the burning of oil.
• hardening something by heat treatment
• a person's state of mind seen in terms of their being angry or calm
ADJECTIVE:
• moderating by making more temperate
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to moderate by adding a counterbalancing agent

Words related to TEMPERING

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Words that contain TEMPERING

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How to use TEMPERING in a sentence

• And when it comes to the education of the ruling and directing classes, there is kindred, if lesser reason, for tempering zeal with patience.
• The fighters of the first order were those who, tempering valour with forbearance, were keen to slay those who resisted, but were ashamed to bear hard on fugitives.
• Farther even than this we will go in tempering or qualifying the utterance of our grievances.
• Our hero, however, was always extremely judicious in tempering his gallantry and moral advice to his young female acquaintances.
• He was handy in shaping and tempering tools of every kind.
• He was of Northern blood, with clear, full blue eyes, calm features, a tempering of the soldier, scholar, and man of the world, in his aspect.
• The evening breeze blew in from the great lake tempering the stale heat of the day.
• She was yet in the bud, far from the tempering touch of experience, still in the state of looking forward and anticipating things.
• It remained as the pledge and symbol of the unity and continuity of the national life, and could do good work in tempering the evils of absolute party government.
• But it must be remembered that this proposition like every other wants tempering with a slight infusion of its direct opposite.
• The climate is delightful, the trade-winds tempering the heat and driving away all insect pests.
• This was tempering the wind, for we were crippled, three of the boys being unable to resume their places around the herd on account of inflamed eyes.
• The blue of the eastern horizon grew shallower, changing to a cold thin gray which warmed slowly to the straw color of tempering steel.
• The percentage of powdered shell used in tempering has usually been very large, forming at times at least half the mass.
• The most striking example is made of a fine-grained clay, without visible admixture of tempering material.
• In the spring, the clay should be prepared for tempering, by the removal of such pebbles as it may still contain.
• The Son of Man or Soul of the World, enters into the Darkness, becomes its captive, to end by tempering and softening its savage nature.
• Male and Female mutually tempering each other are Benignity and Severity, 768-l.
• This Committee stands for justice and is not backward about tempering it with mercy.
• This type of Christ, then, of a perfect, manly beauty, of a divine meekness tempering majesty, dates back, not to Gian Bellino, but to Cima.
• That blazing ball of torment, the sun, slid farther and farther down to the skyline, tempering its heat with the cool promise of dusk.
• Here we behold the perpetual youth, the immortal genius of Hellas, tempering the solid repose of Egypt with the passion of Life.
• The one is, that it moves between two Heavens, repugnant to its good tempering, namely, that of Mars and that of Saturn.
• After the initial shaping, the smith completes the work with the small hammer, and the blade is ready for tempering.
• Tempering is an exceedingly delicate chemical operation, and I have no hesitation in saying, that on its proper performance depends the quality of the produce.
• The lime used in the hot has been less by one-third than the quantity used in the cold tempering.
• Of course, on level estates there is little difficulty in tempering liquor, but on hilly properties scarcely two pans will require the same quantity.
• The spirit of the Forest was slowly tempering the bitterness in her heart, but it sometimes seemed to her that her loyalty to her father was weakening.
• The true beauty of the quartet tone cannot be obtained unless there is an exact adjustment, a tempering of the individual pitch of each instrument, till perfect accordance exists.
• They were chaste in their conversation, tempering mirth with gravity.

Similar words containing TEMPER without suffix ing

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