单词 | tempering |
释义 | temperingn. The action of temper v., in various senses; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > hardening, tempering, or annealing hardening?c1425 nealing1612 tempering1661 annealing1662 seasoning1731 lighting1831 anneal1868 society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > hardening, tempering, or annealing > reducing brittleness of hardened steel tempering1881 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xii. 11 Who is sweete, liueth in tempringis [a1425 L.V. temperaunces]. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Ezek. xiii. 14 Y schal distrie the wal, which ȝe pargetiden with out temperure [1382 temperynge; L. absque temperamento]. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 488/2 Temperynge, or mesurynge of sundry thyngys to-gedyr. 1486 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 241 To a warkman for temperyng of morter. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. iii The temperyng [of the plough] to go brode & narowe is in the settyng of the culture. 1538 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 157 For his gud seruice to be done in keiping and temporing of thair knok within the tolbutht, for his fee. 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Diiijv What waxe so frozen but dissolues with tempring ? View more context for this quotation 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xli. xxv. 1113 Proxenus..dranke a cup of poison of his wives tempering, whereof he died. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. iv. 21 Concerning the tempering of aire in our houses. 1661 R. Boyle Ess. Unsuccessf. Exper. in Wks. (1772) I. 341 The tempering of steel. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 42/1 The Workman's..Manner of Building depends partly upon..his Stone, and partly upon the tempering of his Mortar. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 883 The needles are now ready for the tempering..they..are carried in boxes to the temperer. 1848 R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnation (1852) xiv. 409 Through the happy tempering of His natural qualities. 1875 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Harmony (ed. 2) v. 67 This interval..in tuning a keyed instrument, will require a much greater alteration, or tempering. 1881 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 352/2 The generic phrase ‘tempering’ is usually applied to mean a combination of the hardening and annealing processes..hardening [the steel] to a red heat and suddenly cooling, and then heating up again to a somewhat lower temperature and allowing to cool slowly. 1941 F. D. Jones & P. B. Schubert Engin. Encycl. II. 1274 The object of tempering, or ‘drawing’, is to reduce the brittleness in hardened steel. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as tempering-bar, tempering-bath, tempering-furnace, tempering-machine, tempering-screw, tempering temperature, tempering-wheel: see quots. ΚΠ 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 138 The fusion is to be raised to the tempering height. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 668 The tempering screw..is..added to keep the waggon in its proper situation, in whatever way the spring of the weighing machine may be acted upon by the friction. 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tempering color, the shade of color that indicates the degree of temper in tempering steel. 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tempering-furnace,..one specially contrived for imparting an equal heat to the articles to be tempered. 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tempering-machine, one for handling heavy steel plates during the operations in tempering. 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tempering-wheel, a device for..tempering clay for making brick, etc. 1891 Cent. Dict. Tempering-oven, in glass-manuf., an annealing-oven used after the melting-oven. 1910 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 808/1 The higher the tempering-temperature, i.e. that to which the hardened steel is..reheated, the more is the molecular rigidity relaxed. 1967 A. H. Cottrell Introd. Metall. xx. 384 Higher tempering temperatures may be used, thereby improving the toughness of the steel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). temperingadj. That tempers; softening, mitigating. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] > making less violent or severe allayingOE temperativec1430 moderativec1487 moderating1583 softening1600 tempering1612 appeasing1648 modulating1751 palliating1758 mitigatory1813 chastening1814 mildening1842 mitigating1903 society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [adjective] > hardening, tempering, or annealing nealing1644 tempering1817 1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion vi. Illustr. 97 Those which sing the Tempering & mollifying Pæans to Apollo. 1817 Ld. Byron Lament Tasso viii Like steel in tempering fire. 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. i. i. 106 The tempering influence of the ocean. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.a1382adj.1612 |
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