temp

• IPA^(key): /tɛmp/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛmp

Clipping of temperature.

temp (plural temps)

1. Clipping of temperature.
   • 2018 February 8, Terry Liittschwager, chapter 30, in Wrongful Act‎^[1], archived from the original on 23 November 2024:

     “All brake temps except the one are in the yellow and climbing. You'll get the warning light soon,” was the flight engineer's response. The one brake temp that was okay was the brake on the blown tire.

See temp.

temp (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of temp. (“in the time of”).

Clipping of temporary.

temp (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of temporary.
   • 2001, John Y. Hsu, Computer Architecture: Software Aspects, Coding, and Hardware:

     Consequently, the unit executes and places the result in a temp register.

temp (plural temps) (informal)

1. Synonym of temporary (“short-term employee”).
2. (programming) Synonym of temporary (“short-term variable”).
   • 2014, Andrew W. Appel, Program Logics for Certified Compilers, page 162:

     That is, r-values include numeric constants, nonaddressable local variables (temps) […]

• temp agency

temp (third-person singular simple present temps, present participle temping, simple past and past participle temped)

1. (transitive, informal) To work as a temporary employee.
   • 2007, The Savages, 01:24:50

     --I temp for money, but it's not my main thing. I write plays.

• PEMT, Emp't, PETM, EMT-P, empt

temp

1. inflection of tempt:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Sicilian tempu and/or Italian tempo, both from Latin tempus.

• IPA^(key): /tɛmp/

temp m (plural tempijiet)

1. weather
2. (grammar) tense

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛmp/
• Rhymes: -ɛmp
• Syllabification: temp
• Homophone: tęp

temp n

1. genitive plural of tempo

• temps (Sursilvan)
• taimp (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
• tains (Sutsilvan)

From Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

temp m (plural temps)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) time

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) ura
• (Surmiran) oura

Clipping of temperatur (“temperature”).

temp c

1. (colloquial, often in the definite "tempen") (body) temperature (as an indication of whether someone is sick)

   ta tempen på någon

   take someone's temperature

2. (colloquial, figuratively, in "ta tempen") to probe, to take someone's pulse (ascertain a mood, thoughts, or the like)

   ta tempen på politikerna inför debatten

   see what the politicians are thinking/take the politicians' pulse prior to the debate

• temp in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• temp in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• temp in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)