hardened vs tempered what difference
what is difference between hardened and tempered
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɑɹdn̩d/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɑːdn̩d/
- Hyphenation: hard‧ened
Verb
hardened
- simple past tense and past participle of harden
Adjective
hardened (comparative more hardened, superlative most hardened)
- Unfeeling or lacking emotion due to experience; callous.
- The bloody scene could reduce even the most hardened soldier to tears.
- Firmly established or unlikely to change; inveterate.
- (computing, military) Having extra defences against attack; highly fortified.
- a hardened air base
- a hardened server
Derived terms
- battle-hardened
- radiation-hardened
- unhardened
Translations
Anagrams
- adherend, deharden
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English tempred, itempered, ytempred, ytemprid, from Old English ġetemprod (“tempered, moderate, goverened, cured”), past participle of Old English ġetemprian (“to temper, moderate, govern, cure”), equivalent to temper + -ed.
Adjective
tempered (not comparable)
- (in combination) Having a specified disposition or temper.
- 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, Chapter 19.
- The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sun and a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leafy tongues a-whispering all at once. This aged tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale.
- 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, Chapter 19.
- Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick.
- “Not forged!” and snatching Perth’s levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming — “Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death! Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin, where the white whale most feels his accursed life!”
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick.
- Pertaining to the industrial process for toughening glass, or to such toughened glass.
- Moderated or balanced by other considerations.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
- The downcast eye, the rosy blush, the retiring grace, are all proper in their season; but modesty, being the child of reason, cannot long exist with the sensibility that is not tempered by reflection.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
- (music) Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:moderate
Antonyms
- untempered
Derived terms
- temperedness
Translations
Etymology 2
Partly from Middle English temperd, temprede, from Old English temprode, first and third person singular preterit of Old English temprian; and partly from Middle English tempred, i-tempred, from Old English ġetemprod. Equivalent to temper + -ed.
Verb
tempered
- simple past tense and past participle of temper
See also
- bad-tempered
- even-tempered
- good-tempered
- hot-tempered
- short-tempered
- well-tempered
Anagrams
- detrempe, détrempe
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