Rage vs. Temper

Ragenoun

Violent uncontrolled anger.

Tempernoun

A tendency to be in a certain type of mood; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.

‘to have a good, bad, or calm temper’;

Ragenoun

A current fashion or fad.

‘Miniskirts were all the rage back then.’;

Tempernoun

State of mind; mood.

Ragenoun

(obsolete) Any vehement passion.

Tempernoun

A tendency to become angry.

‘to have a hasty temper’; ‘He has quite a temper when dealing with salespeople.’;

Rageverb

(intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.

Tempernoun

Anger; a fit of anger.

‘an outburst of temper’;

Rageverb

(intransitive) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.

Tempernoun

Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.

‘to keep one's temper; to lose one's temper; to recover one's temper’;

Rageverb

(obsolete) To enrage.

Tempernoun

(obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.

Ragenoun

Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.

‘He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.’; ‘Convulsed with a rage of grief.’;

Tempernoun

Middle state or course; mean; medium.

Ragenoun

Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.

‘torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.’;

Tempernoun

The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.

‘the temper of mortar’;

Ragenoun

A violent or raging wind.

Tempernoun

The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.

Ragenoun

The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.

Tempernoun

The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.

‘the temper of iron or steel’;

Rageverb

To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.

‘When one so great begins to rage, he is huntedEven to falling.’; ‘Rage, rage against the dying of the lightDo not go gentle into that good night.’;

Tempernoun

Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.

Rageverb

To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds.

‘Why do the heathen rage?’; ‘The madding wheelsOf brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise.’;

Temperverb

To moderate or control.

‘Temper your language around children.’;

Rageverb

To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.

Temperverb

To 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.’;

Rageverb

To toy or act wantonly; to sport.

Temperverb

To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.

Rageverb

To enrage.

Temperverb

To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.

Ragenoun

a feeling of intense anger;

‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’; ‘his face turned red with rage’;

Temperverb

(music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.

Ragenoun

a state of extreme anger;

‘she fell into a rage and refused to answer’;

Temperverb

To govern; to manage.

Ragenoun

something that is desired intensely;

‘his rage for fame destroyed him’;

Temperverb

(archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.

Ragenoun

violent state of the elements;

‘the sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks’;

Temperverb

(archaic) To 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.

Ragenoun

an interest followed with exaggerated zeal;

‘he always follows the latest fads’; ‘it was all the rage that season’;

Temperverb

(obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

Rageverb

behave violently, as if in state of a great anger

Temperverb

To 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; to soothe; to calm.

‘Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system.’; ‘Woman! lovely woman! nature made theeTo temper man: we had been brutes without you.’; ‘But thy fireShall be more tempered, and thy hope far higher.’; ‘She [the Goddess of Justice] threw darkness and clouds about her, that tempered the light into a thousand beautiful shades and colors.’;

Rageverb

be violent; as of fires and storms

Temperverb

To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate.

‘Thy sustenance . . . serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man's liking.’;

Rageverb

feel intense anger;

‘Rage against the dying of the light!’;

Temperverb

To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel.

‘The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound.’;

Temperverb

To govern; to manage.

‘With which the damned ghosts he governeth,And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth.’;

Temperverb

To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.

Temperverb

To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.

Temperverb

To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity.

Temperverb

To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable.

‘I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him.’;

Tempernoun

The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just combination; as, the temper of mortar.

Tempernoun

Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.

‘The exquisiteness of his [Christ's] bodily temper increased the exquisiteness of his torment.’;

Tempernoun

Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper.

‘Remember with what mildAnd gracious temper he both heared and judged.’; ‘The consequents of a certain ethical temper.’;

Tempernoun

Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one's temper.

‘To fall with dignity, with temper rise.’; ‘Restore yourselves to your tempers, fathers.’;

Tempernoun

Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; - in a reproachful sense.

Tempernoun

The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling; as, the temper of iron or steel.

Tempernoun

Middle state or course; mean; medium.

‘The perfect lawgiver is a just temper between the mere man of theory, who can see nothing but general principles, and the mere man of business, who can see nothing but particular circumstances.’;

Tempernoun

Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.

Tempernoun

a sudden outburst of anger;

‘his temper sparked like damp firewood’;

Tempernoun

a 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’;

Tempernoun

a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger;

‘his temper was well known to all his employees’;

Tempernoun

the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking

Temperverb

toughen (steel or glass) by a process of gradually heating and cooling;

‘temper glass’;

Temperverb

harden by reheating and cooling in oil;

‘temper steel’;

Temperverb

adjust the pitch (of pianos)

Temperverb

make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate;

‘she tempered her criticism’;

Temperverb

restrain or temper