temp

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛmp/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛmp

Etymology 1

Clipping of temperature.

Noun

temp (plural temps)

1. Clipping of temperature.

Derived terms

• spike a temp

 

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)

1. A temporary employee, usually in an office.
2. (programming, informal) A temporary storage location.
   • 2014, Andrew W. Appel, Program Logics for Certified Compilers, page 162:

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

Derived terms

• temp agency

Translations

temporary employee

• Catalan: temporer m, temporera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臨時雇員／临时雇员 (línshí gùyuán)

• Finnish: määräaikainen (fi), pätkätyöläinen (fi)
• French: employé temporaire m, employée temporaire f, intérimaire (fr) m or f
• German: Leiharbeiter (de) m, Leiharbeiterin (de) f
• Japanese: 臨時雇い (りんじやとい, rinjiyatoi)
• Russian: вре́менный рабо́тник m (vrémennyj rabótnik), вре́менный сотру́дник m (vrémennyj sotrúdnik), вре́менная рабо́тница f (vrémennaja rabótnica), вре́менная сотру́дница f (vrémennaja sotrúdnica)
• Swedish: vikarie (sv) c

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.

Translations

to work as a temporary employee

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打零工

• German: jobben (de)
• Swedish: vikariera (sv), vicka (sv)

Anagrams

• PEMT, Emp't, PETM, EMT-P, empt

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/

Noun

temp m (plural tempijiet)

1. weather
2. (grammar) tense

Related terms

• intemperanza
• mezzutemp
• temperament
• temperamentali
• temperanza
• temperat
• temperatura
• tempesta
• tempestuż
• temporanjament
• temporanju

 

Polish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

temp n

1. genitive plural of tempo

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

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

Related terms

• (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

Declension of temp
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	temp	tempen	—	—
Genitive	-	-	—	—

References

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