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TEMPERATE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not extreme
Example:
temperate in his response to criticism
Synonyms:
moderate; temperate
Classified under:
Similar:
mild (moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not extreme in behavior
Example:
temperate in his eating and drinking
Classified under:
Similar:
abstemious; light (marked by temperance in indulgence)
moderate; restrained (marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes)
Also:
mild (moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme)
moderate (being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme)
Antonym:
intemperate (excessive in behavior)
Derivation:
temperateness (exhibiting restraint imposed on the self)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(of weather or climate) free from extremes; mild; or characteristic of such weather or climate
Example:
temperate plants
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
cold-temperate (the colder parts of temperate waters)
equable (not varying)
Also:
clement ((of weather or climate) physically mild)
Antonym:
intemperate ((of weather or climate) not mild; subject to extremes)
Derivation:
temperateness (moderate weather; suitable for outdoor activities)
Context examples:
He is a very temperate man, and you could not fancy him in liquor last night?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Because equatorial regions receive approximately two times more UVR than more temperate regions, darker pigmentation in people from these regions is thought to reduce skin damage and cancer.
(New regions of the human genome linked to skin color variation in some African populations, National Institutes of Health)
Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know him.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Temperate tailed phagae; does not integrate into host chromosome; prophage resembles plasmid and replicates autonomously at low numbers.
(Bacteriophage P1, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
The paper's projections of species loss are similar for plants and animals, but extinctions are projected to be two to four times more common in the tropics than in temperate regions.
(One-third of plant and animal species could be gone in 50 years, National Science Foundation)
It was midday before we had made ourselves secure, but the heat was not oppressive, and the general character of the plateau, both in its temperature and in its vegetation, was almost temperate.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
University of Arizona scientists trekked across the Americas: from moist, tropical jungles of Panama to the frigid boreal forests of Colorado to the wet temperate forests of the Pacific Northwest.
(From tropical to boreal ecosystems, temperature drives functioning, National Science Foundation)
They are most abundant in subpolar and temperate waters and surprisingly scarce around the equator, where an abundance of nutrients and sunlight create one of the most biologically productive regions of the global ocean.
(Study reveals changing patterns in globally important algae, National Science Foundation)
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have conducted the first search for atmospheres around temperate, Earth-sized planets beyond our solar system and found indications that increase the chances of habitability on two exoplanets.
(Hubble Telescope Makes First Atmospheric Study of Earth-Sized Exoplanets, NASA)
The new study also contributes to a mounting body of evidence that tropical forests might take up more carbon — and northern temperate forests might take up less carbon — than many scientists once thought.
(World's forests increasingly taking up more carbon, National Science Foundation)
