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See also: TEMP, tëmp, tẽmp, temp., and Temp.

English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Clipping of temperature.

Noun

temp (plural temps)

  1. Clipping of temperature.
    • 2018 February 8, Terry Liittschwager, chapter 30, in Wrongful Act‎, 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.
Derived terms

Verb

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

  1. To measure or check the temperature of something, especially food or equipment in a commercial kitchen.
    • 2023 February 25, Reddit‎:
      The produce walk in is temping at between 42-46° and I let management know but nobody seemed too pressed about it. Days later it’s still the same problem
    • 2025 July 25, Reddit‎:
      Our dairy section coolers have been temping at 50 degrees for two hours and the product is temping at 45.

Etymology 2

See temp.

Adverb

temp (not comparable)

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

Etymology 3

Clipping of temporary.

Adjective

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.

Noun

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) […]
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Translations

Verb

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.
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Latvian

Verb

temp

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

Maltese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛmp/
  • Rhymes: -ɛmp

Noun

temp m (plural tempijiet)

  1. weather
  2. (grammar) tense

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

temp n

  1. genitive plural of tempo

Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

temp m (plural temps)

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

Swedish

Etymology

Clipping of temperatur (“temperature”).

Noun

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

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

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