
Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)temper, mood, humor, humoura characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling“whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time”,
“he was in a bad humor” (n)temper, toughnessthe elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking Verbs
(v)anneal, temper, normalizebring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling“temper glass” (v)temper, hardenharden by reheating and cooling in oil“temper steel” (v)temperadjust the pitch (of pianos)