temperate

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Fuah, the temperate was at 6C but one minute I was perspiring and another minute I was so nausea I want to lay down on the street.

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  1. adjective Exercising moderation and self-restraint: learned to be temperate in eating and drinking.
  2. adjective Moderate in degree or quality; restrained: temperate criticism.
  3. adjective Characterized by moderate temperatures, weather, or climate; neither hot nor cold.
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  • They range tropical, temperate, and cold water places. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • Climate is cool, temperate, and rainy; summer temperatures average 77°F, winters average 45°F.
  • Toshiba to blanket Canada with 1,000 hot spots: As the North American market heats up, we need to look north to our less temperate -- I'm talking Celsius! —  Wi-Fi Networking News
  • The hero of the Revolution was heroically temperate, an embodiment of political temperance who fixed his virtue in the nation's memory when he retired from the presidential chair. —  Claremont.org
  • And it's probably not just us that have this problem - plenty of other temperate areas could face fall and spring storms that would have been partially or completely snow instead of rain under natural conditions but will get rain-caused flooding instead because of warming. —  Backseat driving
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English temperat, from Latin temperātus, from past participle of temperāre, to temper; see temper.

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  1. from Middle English temperate = French tempéré = Spanish templado = Portuguese temprado, temperado, from Latin temperatus, past participle of temperare: see temper. Cf. tempre.
  2. from Latin temperatus, past participle of temperare, modify, temper: see temper, v.
 

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