noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a temperature gauge
▪ The oil temperature gauge was twice its normal reading.
a temperature rise
▪ They predicted a global temperature rise of 2.5 degrees by the end of the century.
body temperature
▪ Exercise will raise your body temperature.
room temperature
▪ The wine should be served at room temperature.
sub-zero weather/temperatures
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ambient
▪ Odour emissions are affected by wind direction, temperature inversion, ambient temperatures and humidity.
▪ The ambient temperature in Celsius is roughly equal to the number of cricket chirps in 8 seconds plus 5.
▪ The water in the aquarium will quickly equal the ambient air temperature.
▪ If you space heat then you will have an ambient temperature of 75-80°F and even higher humidity.
▪ Homeothermy or Homoiothermy Temperature regulation in tachymetabolic species in which core temperatures remain roughly steady despite ambient temperature changes.
▪ The ambient temperature for each day of the study was determined from local weekly weather statistics.
average
▪ It should cause a fall of around 0.5 degrees Centigrade, taking average temperatures back to those of the 1950s and 60s.
▪ The average 1995 worldwide temperature was 59. 7 degrees, or the equivalent of a summer day in London.
▪ The average daily temperature from October to December is around 88 degrees Farenheit with nine hours of sunshine per day.
▪ An ice age begins slowly, almost imperceptibly, when the average temperature drops by a few degrees.
▪ Of more practical importance than estimates of global annual average temperature increase is that of resulting regional and seasonal changes.
▪ The plant is more suitable for Zone 10 conditions, where the average minimum temperatures are 30-40 degrees.
▪ The average temperature rise over all areas was 0.59 degrees.
cold
▪ The batteries should not be exposed to excessive heat or cold temperatures, or exposed to moisture.
▪ The limiting factor for early planting is more often waterlogged soil than cold temperatures.
▪ The winters are long and very cold, with temperatures ranging between -16°C and -48°C from October to March.
▪ The market lost its earlier gains on perceptions the coldest temperatures came in areas where previous frost damage forced an early harvest.
▪ The colder the temperature, the more fat reserves a bird needs to maintain body warmth.
▪ Change the water every 30 minutes to maintain the cold temperature.
▪ In cold temperatures the eggs are very resistant and can survive for over a year in soil.
▪ Expect very cold temperatures and true winter conditions.
constant
▪ They estimated that it would take them four months to build the cells, the measuring equipment and constant temperature baths.
▪ Thus the plants have a constant temperature in both leaves and roots.
▪ His law states that gas volume varies inversely with pressure at constant temperature.
▪ Below the frost line, the ground maintains a more constant temperature of about 55 degrees year-round.
▪ Under reasonably constant temperature conditions, the prototype unit provided a time period of 24 hours within two or three minutes.
▪ It emerges from the base of the massive Navajo Dam at constant temperatures and even flows.
▪ In practice the polymer solution is held at a constant temperature while precipitant is added to the stirred solution.
▪ Light intensity is linearly controlled with constant colour temperature and light emission angle.
different
▪ Figure 3.7 shows graphically the Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions of molecular speeds at two different temperatures.
▪ Do you want different temperatures in the living room and the bedroom?
▪ All gauges are carefully monitored with regular readings taken to establish the performance of the engine at different settings and temperatures.
▪ They're available in various weights to suit different temperatures.
▪ Now you can have different temperatures in every part of your home when you want them.
▪ A composite isothermal curve covering the required extensive time scale can then be constructed from data collected at different temperatures.
▪ Not all magmas have the same composition, and magmas with different compositions melt at different temperatures.
▪ Of course different clays can withstand different firing temperatures before they vitrify and lose their structural integrity.
global
▪ The worst case scenario suggests aircraft could be responsible for up to 43 percent of the projected rise in global temperature.
▪ In the last nine thousand years there has been only a single global temperature excursion larger than 0. 5 degrees!
▪ Of more practical importance than estimates of global annual average temperature increase is that of resulting regional and seasonal changes.
▪ Palaeoclimate reconstructions indicate that the meridional temperature gradients decrease, and poleward heat flow increases, as global mean temperature increases.
▪ It's sending back measurements of global sea surface temperatures, with very high accuracy.
▪ The predictions are based on a rise in global temperatures of 1 degree centigrade by 2025.
▪ Fast albedo feedbacks are too weak to change global temperature significantly without global mean radiative forcing.
▪ But internationally agreed carbon taxes, permits and rising global temperatures may push the world along the road towards accepting the unacceptable.
high
▪ On take-off, for example, it would result in excessively high combustion temperatures and detonation.
▪ The plant is sensitive to alkaline conditions and prefers cool waters but temporarily withstands higher temperatures.
▪ Earlier workers failed; one reason was that they did not have the technology to reach the necessary high temperatures and pressures.
▪ The high core temperatures could also be used to support a theory that became fashionable among geophysicists during the l980s.
▪ Its highest temperature is 32 KeV, density 1.2 × 10 20 and energy retention time 1.2 seconds.
▪ The collisions generated extremely high temperatures and pressures.
▪ Their natural habitat is the Amazonian jungle with a high temperature and humidity.
▪ A stream of water is pumped into a hot reactor, where it boils and is heated to very high temperatures.
internal
▪ Eventually the internal pressure and temperature rise sufficiently for thermonuclear fusion to begin.
▪ Both say an oven as low as 140 degrees would not take the meat to the 160-degree internal temperature needed for safety.
▪ Initially the gravitational self-attraction of the stellar material leads to large internal pressures and temperatures which can ignite thermonuclear burning.
▪ Fully cooked ham are heated to an internal temperature of 150-F.
▪ Lund's paper assumes a house with an internal temperature varying on an annual basis between 170C and 270C.
▪ Cooked poultry roasts must have been heated to an internal temperature of 160-F.
▪ Occupiers also raise the internal temperature, thereby increasing the stack effect.
▪ Most of the recipes in this book will give an internal temperature recommendation rather than a minutes-per-pound guideline.
low
▪ It does well at the lower temperature, and will take some time to adapt to the temperatures above 70°F.
▪ The heat can penetrate combustible materials, alter their composition and make them ignite at lower temperatures.
▪ This type is illustrated in Figure 5.6, which shows the pendulum used at Bristol for studies at low temperatures in vacuum.
▪ But salt water has a lower freezing temperature than plain water.
▪ Because of its preference for lower temperatures, this is an ideal plant for the garden pool.
▪ For many years, doctors believed that the lower temperature could reduce the chance of bacterial growth and infection.
▪ By 22 October 1995, the lowest temperature recorded for the bedroom for the forthcoming winter was 200C.
▪ Surgeons and their surgical teams, dressed in watertight garb, also found the low temperatures more comfortable.
maximum
▪ The temperature at point C is the maximum temperature at which two phases can form.
▪ On a thirty-hour journey they passed through a maximum temperature of over two thousand degrees Fahrenheit.
▪ It is recommended that samples be stored at mean maximum temperature and mean maximum humidity appropriate to the market concerned.
▪ The maximum temperature to which a melt is heated is also critical.
▪ Bonfire firings are generally quicker than kilns and a deal less controlled, with their maximum temperatures being held briefly.
▪ It is therefore particularly suitable for estimating maximum temperature exposure or maximum depth of burial.
▪ In the Sonoran desert, average summer temperatures are around 40C, and maximum temperatures may exceed 55C.
mean
▪ This behaviour is similar to the observed evolution of the mean temperature in the lower stratosphere during 1984 and 1989.
▪ The mean temperature in Champagne is 10.53°C sheltered at 2 metres above the ground and 11.21°C at 0.2 metres above the ground.
▪ Palaeoclimate reconstructions indicate that the meridional temperature gradients decrease, and poleward heat flow increases, as global mean temperature increases.
▪ Since then they have been both warmer and colder, with oscillations of the order of 1-2°C about annual mean temperatures.
▪ It is recommended that samples be stored at mean maximum temperature and mean maximum humidity appropriate to the market concerned.
▪ The long-range forecast prophesies Mean temperatures and azure skies.
normal
▪ Make sure you choose a model that can increase the normal temperature to that required for propagation.
▪ An air conditioner to maintain normal room temperature is advisable.
▪ Carbon monoxide and oxygen are both gases at normal Mars-surface temperatures and pressures.
▪ In fact, from its formula one would expect it to be a gas at normal temperatures but it is a liquid.
▪ The alloy of which they were made age-hardened quickly at normal temperatures, and all rivets had to be chilled before use.
▪ Leave the refrigerator at the normal temperature setting.
■ NOUN
air
▪ The snow may crust at night, due to outward radiation, even thought the air temperature remains well above freezing point.
▪ It is calculated using rainfall averages and monthly mean surface and air temperatures.
▪ June Brilliant sun, warm seas, pleasant air temperatures, warm nights.
▪ The outside air temperature was above minimum, but I switched on the engine anti-ice anyway, just to be sure.
▪ Similar air temperatures are observed today in geographically equivalent temperate high latitudes.
▪ The water in the aquarium will quickly equal the ambient air temperature.
▪ Once air temperatures have fallen well below freezing point, frozen spray accumulates along the shore.
▪ The outside air temperature gauge proved very accurate - immediately we entered the red we started to collect ice.
body
▪ They pick up the infant's heartbeat, respiration rate, body temperature, and so on.
▪ Exercise will raise your body temperature, allowing you to adjust to your new circadian rhythm.
▪ Extrapolating this knowledge to a 10-ton dinosaur, they calculated that a one-degree rise in body temperature would take some 86 hours.
▪ In addition, body temperature begins to drop and muscles begin to relax.
▪ In this way body temperature was kept constant and the evaporation of water from abdominal tissues was minimised.
▪ By this time Snyder was lapsing in and out of consciousness and his body temperature was fluctuating wildly.
▪ The result is a dramatic increase in body temperature, until at 43 ° C death occurs.
▪ In the evening, body temperature begins to decrease in preparation for sleep.
change
▪ In Example 12 the temperature change over a time interval was to be worked out.
▪ The autonomic nervous system disperses and concentrates pigment throughout the body after external influences such as fear or temperature change.
▪ Ccontents is the specific heat capacity of the contents; and T is the temperature change of the contents.
▪ When the temperature changes, the timing period will vary by up to two minutes per degree approximately.
▪ Young babies, whose sensitivity to temperature change has not yet developed, are also particularly at risk.
▪ A giant cabinet sealed behind a double skin to protect it's exquisite exterior from dust and temperature change.
▪ Homeothermy or Homoiothermy Temperature regulation in tachymetabolic species in which core temperatures remain roughly steady despite ambient temperature changes.
▪ The stratigraphic record can at best link these two important phenomena - the emergence of species and the long-term atmospheric temperature changes.
control
▪ Recent success has seen a new temperature control product designed in conjunction with Marks &038; Spencer.
▪ For these folks, temperature control is a delicate balance.
▪ Humidity and temperature controls are turned up if any babies or children are brought in for operations.
▪ When the temperature control device is operating, Reclamation can have it both ways.
▪ It is vital for temperature control, for cleanliness, for waterproofing and for controlling the scent-signalling of the feline body.
▪ In all stores adequate ventilation should be provided as an aid to temperature control with mechanical air conditioning if needed.
▪ Room keys activate the temperature controls and turn on an entry light, so guests never enter a dark room.
difference
▪ Shaded areas indicate negative temperature difference.
▪ Consequently, the temperature contrast between them at any level is smaller than the temperature difference between top and bottom.
▪ It's very accurate, reacting to temperature differences of as little as 0.5°C.
▪ This heating is imposed before the vertical temperature difference and, of course, produces weak convection.
▪ If this were the end of the story then there would be large equator to pole temperature differences in the observed troposphere.
▪ The orientation of the rolls will depend on whatever small perturbations happen to be present as the temperature difference is raised.
▪ It took a billion measurements of the sky with an instrument that could detect temperature differences of one part in 100,000.
range
▪ Many reptiles have a preferred temperature range within internally regulated diurnal rhythms.
▪ Desert areas on Earth often have wide diurnal temperature ranges due to nighttime radiative cooling through very clear skies.
▪ A series of simple push-buttons on the solid state device enables the required temperature range to be set precisely.
▪ The temperature range can be between 68°F to 75°F - try not to exceed the maximum.
▪ The patient's normal temperature range is established following admission and checked regularly in the early post-operative period.
▪ The temperature range of the fish to be kept was from 70°s.
▪ And it grows best within a very precise temperature range of 30-31°C.
▪ And Sadia has also introduced a small controller, allowing the user to accurately set the required temperature range.
rise
▪ Since the temperature rise is usually small the temperature must be measured accurately.
▪ The enzyme is active between 130-F and 160-F and is inactivated as temperature rises during cooking.
▪ Some of this increase can be attributed to the evaporation of remaining nitric acid from the condensed phase as temperatures rise.
▪ The liquid is burnt in a plentiful supply of air and the temperature rise in the surrounding water bath is measured.
▪ Eventually the internal pressure and temperature rise sufficiently for thermonuclear fusion to begin.
▪ The average temperature rise over all areas was 0.59 degrees.
▪ As this temperature rise occurs after ovulation has already taken place, it can not predict ovulation in advance.
room
▪ Because of the low activation energies, such reactions are often readily reversible at room temperature.
▪ Glass that is near room temperature is a familiar brittle material, and modeling clay is obviously ductile.
▪ Choosing Choose fruit that's just softening; it will soon ripen at room temperature.
▪ To serve, cut into wedges and serve warm or at room temperature.
▪ The samples were incubated at 80°C for 3 min and at room temperature for 10 min.
▪ Defrost in the refrigerator, never at room temperature.
▪ Incubation was performed at room temperature for 30 minutes.
▪ Marinate for 2 to 3 hours at room temperature.
surface
▪ This means that its surface temperatures must be literally scorching, frequently reaching 700°C.
▪ Before very long on a planetary time scale the surface temperatures would reach Cytherean values.
▪ Patterns of air pressure, surface winds and sea surface temperatures are all interlinked.
▪ An initial surface temperature of 10° C has been assumed in all cases.
▪ It's sending back measurements of global sea surface temperatures, with very high accuracy.
▪ Mercurian surface temperatures have been determined from observations of thermal radiation from the planet's surface.
▪ The Cytherean atmosphere is far more massive than that of the Earth, and the surface temperatures are considerably higher.
▪ The temperature is about 700 K, about the same as the surface temperature everywhere on Venus.
water
▪ This senses the water temperature and sends a signal to the control box where it is processed in a microchip.
▪ A sudden change in water temperature can also be lethal.
▪ It may not be adjusted or working correctly or as it is operated by water temperature, it may be air locked.
▪ The water temperature should be at least 180 degrees Fahrenheit.
▪ A safety thermostat controls the water temperature, so ensuring constant pressure to give a consistent jet of cleansing steam.
▪ The water temperature had risen slightly, and for a few days we even saw an occasional flying fish.
▪ It is just more and more complex and difficult to achieve the right water temperature.
▪ The water temperature in 1996 was a quarter of a degree higher than the 50-year average.
■ VERB
drop
▪ A gas dropping in pressure also drops in temperature - the principle behind the household refrigerator.
▪ As you continued to measure temperatures, the temperature in the ceramic cup dropped faster than the temperature in the foam cup.
▪ Then they reduced humidity levels, cut back on lighting and dropped the temperatures from 75 degrees to about 70.
increase
▪ Make sure you choose a model that can increase the normal temperature to that required for propagation.
▪ The increasing temperature, the thinning ozone-these are signals about the correct size of our society.
▪ There is also a remarkable constancy of lamellar thickness, but this increases as the temperature increases.
▪ Vigorous exercise increases the core body temperature by about two degrees Fahrenheit.
▪ I think it will be the hay that increases the temperature.
▪ Some computer models suggest greenhouse gases may increase world temperatures from two to seven degrees Fahrenheit over the next fifty years.
▪ Readings were only normal when I was walking, perhaps because of the tendency of exertion to increase body temperature.
▪ This enhancement of the greenhouse effect leads to increasing Earth-surface temperatures and global climate change.
keep
▪ The heat from the mass of bodies packed within keeps the temperature around 100°F.
▪ Overcast skies forecast for today should serve to keep temperatures cool.
▪ Take paracetamol to keep your temperature down.
▪ Those who were kept at normal temperatures had notably fewer problems after surgery.
▪ You sweat to keep your body temperature down.
▪ It boasts an ideal cool climate for the grape, as bodies of water near the vineyards keep temperatures moderate.
▪ They keep the temperature so high you can't adjust when you come out, and everyone gets ill.
▪ C, as they seem more susceptible to the disease when kept at lower temperatures.
lower
▪ Keeping the heat inside Sitting in a draughty room will lower your body temperature and make you feel cold and uncomfortable.
▪ They then fan the water so that it evaporates and in doing so lowers the temperature.
▪ To cool, the motor forces air out of the box, so lowering the temperature.
▪ The heat evaporates the water and this also lowers the temperature.
▪ In Winter lower the temperature to around 66°F.
▪ Uplifted sediments would be brought from their depth-related temperature regime and subjected to lower temperatures at higher structural levels.
▪ A spray of fresh mineral water will lower your body's temperature instantly.
maintain
▪ An air conditioner to maintain normal room temperature is advisable.
▪ Change the water every 30 minutes to maintain the cold temperature.
▪ The bees also have other ways of maintaining an even temperature within the nest.
▪ Below the frost line, the ground maintains a more constant temperature of about 55 degrees year-round.
▪ However, once it is triggered the energy produced by the reaction itself will maintain the temperature until the reactants are exhausted.
▪ Such a piece of plutonium can maintain high temperatures without any external power supply, controls, or monitoring for many years.
▪ These rooms are maintained at a fixed temperature, with set lighting and ventilation regimes.
▪ For example, do households living in well-insulated accommodation balance out potential savings by maintaining higher temperatures?
measure
▪ ERS-1 will also measure sea temperature, contributing to studies into the role that the oceans play in determining global climate.
▪ As you continued to measure temperatures, the temperature in the ceramic cup dropped faster than the temperature in the foam cup.
▪ Tony measures the temperature and tells me it is warming up.
▪ The pilot measures temperatures and samples water and rock and an orange microbial fluff.
▪ Make with the sketch maps of the area. Measure the ambient temperature.
▪ What geophysicists have been lacking is a way to measure the temperature deep down, where radioactive heating plays a lesser role.
▪ If you have a thermometer, measure the temperature of the soil after about 2 hours.
▪ The experiment to measure core temperature, though, had to wait nearly thirty years.
raise
▪ It is held in a double-skinned tank which is filled with hot water to raise the temperature of the milk.
▪ Exercise will raise your body temperature, allowing you to adjust to your new circadian rhythm.
▪ A collision would vaporize the oceans and raise atmospheric temperatures to 3000°F.
▪ This again raises the temperature and pressure, until the thermonuclear burning of helium to carbon is ignited.
▪ These would have been used to raise the working temperatures to above 1000 0C in the furnaces when needed.
▪ Don't put hot food straight into the fridge - it raises the temperature and encourages mould to grow.
▪ In future machines the aim will be to raise the temperature without need for so much extra heating.
▪ In copper-oxide superconducting materials, this suggest that to raise the critical temperature you want to make the lattice smaller.
reach
▪ Earlier workers failed; one reason was that they did not have the technology to reach the necessary high temperatures and pressures.
▪ Pressure keeps the hot water from steaming or boiling; it becomes superheated, reaching temperatures of 350oC and more.
▪ I didn't reach temperature last time.
▪ He bought us cold glasses of other wines until ours reached proper temperature.
▪ Glass oven and grill doors, a popular feature on modern cookers, can reach external temperatures of 95°C when in use.
▪ The majority of the incinerators are incapable of reaching sufficiently high temperatures.
▪ The leisurely bath has reached just the right temperature and the birthday bath salts are bubbling away beautifully.
▪ As soon as the milk reaches the correct temperature, give it to your baby.
reduce
▪ When a cool liquid passes over a hot body it will conduct energy away, reducing the temperature of the body.
▪ Cool. Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees.
▪ Then reduce the oven temperature to 190°C, 375°F, Gas 5 and cook for a further 20 to 15 min.
▪ Bake pie 20 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees and bake 10 minutes more or until crust is golden brown.
▪ Paracetamol can help reduce the temperature along with fan therapy and tepid sponging.
▪ The latter two points help to minimise disturbance of the interior air and thus reduce the possibility of temperature fluctuations.
▪ The effect of branching is to decrease the percentage crystallinity, broaden the melting range, and reduce the average melting temperature.
require
▪ The recycling of polystyrene, for instance, requires temperatures above 200C and the materials are extensively filtered during the procedure.
▪ This requires reactor temperatures of about 100 million degrees.
▪ Some species require a special temperature, which again means a controller is effective.
▪ But this requires such high temperatures that the hydrogen gas can partially react with the ilmenite.
▪ The extra-oral treatment requires processing at temperatures closer to the glass transition temperature where segmental mobility allows additional polymerisation.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ambient temperature/light etc
▪ Homeothermy or Homoiothermy Temperature regulation in tachymetabolic species in which core temperatures remain roughly steady despite ambient temperature changes.
▪ If you space heat then you will have an ambient temperature of 75-80°F and even higher humidity.
▪ It really comes into its own with flash as the metering balances the flash against the ambient lighting conditions with great results.
▪ Odour emissions are affected by wind direction, temperature inversion, ambient temperatures and humidity.
▪ The ambient temperature for each day of the study was determined from local weekly weather statistics.
▪ The ambient temperature in Celsius is roughly equal to the number of cricket chirps in 8 seconds plus 5.
run a temperature/fever
▪ The baby was fussing and running a fever, so I called the doctor.
▪ By Sunday morning she was running a temperature.
▪ I think he's running a temperature, and he's off his food.
▪ Lice are very temperature-sensitive and will leave a body which is running a fever.
▪ Lips all cracked, glassy eyes, running a temperature.
▪ Next morning he ran a temperature but insisted on getting up.
▪ No wonder she was running a temperature!
▪ Not running a temperature, are you?
▪ She wasn't tipsy, just a little high, probably running a fever.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Temperatures in the south of the country reached 30 degrees centigrade.
▪ It was sunny, but the temperature was well below zero.
▪ Professional film is stored at a low temperature to prevent it from deteriorating.
▪ Steel is produced at very high temperatures.
▪ The temperature is expected to go down below freezing during the night.
▪ The temperature of the water was just right for swimming.
▪ The temperature of the world's oceans has risen by more than 2 degrees in the past hundred years.
▪ The gas freezes at a temperature of 180C.
▪ The greenhouse is kept at a constant temperature of 40C.
▪ The wine can be served at room temperature.
▪ You feel very hot - let me take your temperature.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All osmotic pressure measurements are extremely sensitive to temperature and must be carried out under rigorously controlled temperature conditions.
▪ In the eastern Pyrenees the high summer temperature can be oppressive.
▪ Season buffalo steaks with salt and pepper to taste and let them rest for 1 hour at room temperature.
▪ The temperature sunk near zero and stayed that way for weeks.
▪ The change in water temperatures that drives the weather can be as little as one or two degrees, Ellis said.
▪ The law only holds under certain conditions: The temperature must be constant.
▪ This was done by reacting the silver in the alloy with salt at high temperatures, leaving the gold unaffected.