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Definition: Tempera |
TemperaNoun1. Pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tempera" was first used: 1832. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemical Industry | A rapidly drying paint consisting of egg white(or egg yolk or both), gum, pigment and water. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The techniques of tempera painting can be exacting when used with traditional techniques that require the application of numerous small brushstrokes applied in a cross-hatching technique. The colors, which are painted over each other, resemble a pastel when unvarnished, or the deeper colors when varnished.
True egg tempera paintings are quite permanent. However, the term "tempera" in modern times has also been used by some manufacturers to refer to ordinary poster paint, which is a cheap form of gouache (opaque watercolor) that has nothing to do with real egg tempera.
Not to be confused with Tempura, a food.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tempera."
Synonyms: TemperaSynonyms: poster color (n), poster colour (n), poster paint (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Painting | Pallet, palette; easel; brush, pencil, stump; black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel; paint; (coloring matter); watercolor, body color, oil color; oils, oil paint; varnish; a, priming; gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass; enamel; encaustic painting; mosaic; tapestry. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tempera |
| Specialty definitions using "tempera": Vasca di tempera. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tempera" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (annealed), German (tempera), Hungarian (distemper), Italian (distemper, poster paint, tempera), Romanian (attemper, chasten, mitigate, moderate, modify, regulate, temper), Serbo-Croatian (calcimine, tempera), Swedish (distemper, tempera, time). |
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 | Wash and tempera painting of Buffleheads by Maynard Reece, 5315 Robertson Drive, Des Moines, Iowa 50312, a popular freelance wildlife artist. Reece has five Federal duck stamps to his credit with this design as the first. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |  | Black and white tempera drawing of Whistling Swans (now known as Tundra Swans) by Stanley Stearns, the second artist to win the contest three times. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |
 | Wash and tempera drawing of Oldsquaw Ducks by Leslie C. Kouba, his second win. (Deceased) Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. | ||
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| "Tempera" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tempera" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 29 | 64,444 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "tempera": Vasca di tempera. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tempera": tempera-on-panel, tempera-on-wood. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tempera | 34 |
tempera paint | 22 |
egg tempera | 22 |
tempera painting | 4 |
paint powdered tempera | 3 |
paint recipe tempera | 2 |
prang set tempera | 2 |
paint powder tempera | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "tempera"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | bojë tempera (distemper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | темпера (distemper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | temperamaling. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tempera. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | temperamaali. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | détrempe, couleur la détrempe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Temperafarbe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τέμπερα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | temperafesték. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tempera (distemper, poster paint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | テロ対策 (10, 99.99999999%, anti-terrorist, temper, temperament, temperate, tempo, temporary, temporary worker, temptation, tempura, ten, ten key, ten nines, tendency, tenderloin, tenderloin steak, ten-gallon hat, tense, tension, tension people, tensor, tent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | テンペラ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | temperey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emperatay tinta de secagem rápida, pintura a têmpera. (various references) темпера (distemper, temperas). (various references) tempera (calcimine). (various references) pintura al temple (dipping, distemper, glue paint, soft distemper, whitewash). (various references) tempera (distemper, time). (various references) เทคนิควา" าพ"้วยสีที่มีน้ำมันผสมไข่แ"ง/ไข่ผสมน้ำ. (various references) zamklı boya. (various references) темпера. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | temperare. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tempera": temperable, temperament, temperamental, temperamentally, temperaments, temperance, temperances, temperas, temperate, temperately, temperateness, temperatenesses, temperature, temperatures. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tempera": distemperate, distemperature, distemperatures, intemperance, intemperances, intemperate, intemperately, intemperateness, intemperatenesses, subtemperate. (additional references) | |
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"Tempera" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bemporad, teamper, temperar, tempery, templer, tempor, tempora, tempra, Uemera. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tempera" (pronounced te"mperu) |
| 3 | -p er u | corpora, diaspora. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-m-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: ampere, metepa, remate, repeat, retape, reteam, tamper, temper. | |
-2 letters: ameer, apter, arete, armet, eater, etape, mater, meter, metre, pater, peart, perea, peter, prate, ramee, ramet, remap, remet, retem, tamer, taper, tramp. | |
-3 letters: aper, mare, mart, mate, meat, meet, mere, meta, mete, pare, part, pate, pear, peat, peer, perm, pert, pram, prat, pree, ramp, rape, rapt, rate, ream, reap, rete, tame, tamp, tape, tare, tarp, team, tear, teem, temp, tepa, term, tram, trap, tree. | |
-4 letters: amp, ape, apt, are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, eme, era, ere, eta, mae, map, mar, mat, met, pam, par, pat, pea, pee, per, pet, ram, rap, rat, ree, rem, rep, ret, tae, tam, tap, tar, tea, tee. | |
-5 letters: ae, am, ar, at, em, er, et, ma, me, pa, pe, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-m-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: attemper, permeant, permeate, tampered, tamperer, temperas. | |
+2 letters: attempers, impetrate, imprecate, parameter, permanent, permeated, permeates, premarket, premature, reattempt, repayment, restamped, stampeder, tamperers, temperate, treponema. | |
+3 letters: atmosphere, attempered, department, entrapment, escarpment, extemporal, hemipteran, heptameter, imperative, impetrated, impetrates, imprecated, imprecates, impregnate, metaphrase, parameters, pentameter, permanents, permeating, permeation, permeative, permutable, planimeter, platemaker, preachment, prematures, prepayment, prestamped, reattempts, repayments, spermaceti, stampeders, streetlamp, temperable, temperance, treponemal, treponemas. | |
+4 letters: atmosphered, atmospheres, attempering, champerties, departments, depravement, entrapments, escarpments, exemplarity, extemporary, gametophore, hemipterans, heptameters, hymenoptera, hypermarket, imperatives, imperforate, impermanent, impersonate, impregnated, impregnates, intemperate, madreporite, marketplace, masterpiece, megaproject, meprobamate, metanephric, metanephroi, metanephros, metaphrases, overpayment, pamphleteer, parametrize, pentamerous, pentameters, perambulate, permanently, permeations, planimeters, platemakers, polarimeter, pomegranate, preachments, preadmitted, predicament, predominate, prematurely, premeditate, prenominate, prepayments, preterminal, reattempted, reimplanted, replacement, semiprivate, sempiternal, spermacetis, spermatheca, streetlamps, supermarket, temperament, temperances, temperately, temperature, temporalize, temporaries, timepleaser, treponemata. | |
+5 letters: amperometric, amphitheater, appraisement, cephalometry, chemotherapy, departmental, depravements, dermatophyte, distemperate, ephemerality, experimental, extemporally, gametophores, hymenopteran, hypermarkets, hypermutable, hyperthermia, impenetrable, impenetrably, imperatively, impersonated, impersonates, intemperance, intercompare, madreporites, malapertness, marketplaces, masterpieces, meanspirited, megaprojects, meprobamates, metamorphose, mousetrapped, overemphatic, overpayments, pamphleteers, parameterize, parametrized, parametrizes, perambulated, perambulates, performative, permanganate, permeability, polarimeters, pomegranates, predicaments, predominated, predominates, preeclamptic, preformatted, preformulate, premarketing, premeditated, premeditates, premeditator, premenstrual, prenominated, prenominates, pretreatment, reattempting, replacements, semiparasite, slipstreamed, somatopleure, spermathecae, spermatocyte, subtemperate, supermarkets, temperaments, temperatures, temporalized, temporalizes, timepleasers, underpayment. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6D 70 65 72 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . -- .--. . .-. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e m p e r a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006D 0070 0065 0072 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54717982718467 |
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