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tempering
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adjective
moderating by making more temperate
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noun
(= annealing)
hardening something by heat treatment
air
Noun
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Air is a mixture of gases. It has no color or odor (smell)
We breathe air to live.
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You put on airs when you act arrogantly.
The woman put on the airs in front of her friends.
air
Verb
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If you air something, you broadcast it, either over the radio, or on television.
Hurry! You'll miss the story about homeless children that is about to air on the local news!
duct
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noun
(= canal, channel)
a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
the tear duct was obstructed
the alimentary canal
poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs
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noun
an enclosed conduit for a fluid
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noun
a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls