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temporary
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Temporary may refer to: Computing Temporary variable Temporary file Temporary folder Temporary filesystem Transient (computing) Other uses Temporary work , a common working arrangement Temporary rank
WordNet
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adj. not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent factor of life"- James Thurber; "impermanent palm cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary housing" [syn: impermanent ] [ant: permanent ] lacking continuity or regularity; "an irregular ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"lasting only for a time," 1540s, from Latin temporarius "of seasonal character, lasting a short time," from tempus (genitive temporis ) "time, season" (see temporal , late 14c., which was the earlier word for "lasting but for a time"). The noun meaning ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a permanent/temporary employee ▪ Some of the temporary employees were later hired as permanent staff. a permanent/temporary home ▪ Flood victims were offered temporary homes. a permanent/temporary position ▪ It's ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Temporary \Tem"po*ra*ry\, a. [L. temporarius, fr. tempus, temporis, time: cf. F. temporaire.] Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief. Temporary government of the city. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time. 2 Existing only for a short time or short times; transient, ephemeral. n. One serving for a limited time; short-term employee.
Usage examples of temporary.
I hit out acrost the mountains, and the next morning found me eating breakfast at the aidge of War Paint, with a old hunter and trapper by the name of old Bill Polk which was camped there temporary.
North America, and there discover a series of analogous phenomena, it will appear certain that all these modifications of species, their extinction, and the introduction of new ones, cannot be owing to mere changes in marine currents or other causes more or less local and temporary, but depend on general laws which govern the whole animal kingdom.
In order to determine this demand, and to ensure that we build what is really needed, we are creating a temporary newsgroup, Windsong Expansion Interest Group, moderated and archived at Windsong.
General Blair was, by temporary assignment of General Sherman, in command of a corps through the battles in front of Chattanooga, and in the march to the relief of Knoxville, which occurred in the latter days of November and early days of December last, and of course was not present at the assembling of Congress.
The right armrest bears stains smelling of anisette, temporary storage spot for candy when the bone-handled phone demands answering.
But if the insanity were temporary, or if Ballenger could recover sufficiently to conceal it from the judge, then Watson himself might be in an unfortunate and vulnerable legal position: a suit for false arrest, or worse.
The two ladies had such an air of mysterious competence to the task they had undertaken that it seemed to Bernard that nothing was left to him but to retire into temporary exile.
But neither Billie nor Adam followed up on her comment He passed the form to her to sign, then handed her a stack of temporary checks.
The Bridgers of Bottommost were so excited at the thought of finding the old stair, however, that they had worked most of the night while the expedition slept to build a temporary footbridge across the root wall.
There are some malarious spots on the edge of Lake Champlain, arid there have been some temporary centres of malaria, within the memory of man, on one or more of our Massachusetts rivers, but these are harmless enough, for the most part, unless the millers dam them, when they are apt to retaliate with a whiff from their meadows, that sets the whole neighborhood shaking with fever and ague.
He was enforcing, in cooperation with Captain Moorman of the state police, a temporary ordinance prohibiting more than four people at a time from gathering on the streets of Chadbury from sunset to sunrise.
Looking more like a spaceman than an anthropologist, I nodded to the guard, circled the barricade, and crossed to the temporary morgue for an update.
Up on Big Laurel, work continued at the NTSB command center and temporary morgue established at the crash site.
His penumbra was entirely taken up with the occupation of this alternate host, acting as a temporary umbra.
Changes in the entry of calcium ions, or the phosphorylation of membrane constituents, or the activation of NMDA receptors, all seem plausible ways of bringing about a temporary change in the electrical properties of a cell, but what makes the change persist -what puts the L into LTP - should be the important question, if LTP is really to serve as a model for long-term memory.