temp

See also: TEMP, 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.
   • 2018 February 8, Terry Liittschwager, chapter 30, in Wrongful Act‎^[1], 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

• overtemp
• room temp
• spike a temp
• temp play

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^[2]:

     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^[3]:

     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) […]

Derived terms

• permatemp
• temp agency

Translations

temporary employee

• Catalan: temporer m, temporera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臨時雇員 / 临时雇员 (línshí gùyuán), 臨時工 / 临时工 (zh) (línshígōng)

• Czech: brigádník (cs) m
• 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)
• Korean: 임시 직원(臨時職員) (imsi jigwon), 림시 직원(臨時職員) (rimsi jigwon) (North Korea)
• Russian: вре́менный рабо́тник m (vrémennyj rabótnik), вре́менный сотру́дник m (vrémennyj sotrúdnik), вре́менная рабо́тница f (vrémennaja rabótnica), вре́менная сотру́дница f (vrémennaja sotrúdnica)
• Spanish: temporero (es) m
• 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

• Czech: brigádničit impf
• German: jobben (de)
• Spanish: trabajar temporáneamente, chambear temporariamente, laburar temporeramente
• 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/
• Rhymes: -ɛmp

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): /ˈtɛmp/
• Rhymes: -ɛmp
• Syllabification: temp
• Homophone: tęp

Noun

temp n

1. genitive plural of tempo

Romansh

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

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	temp	-
	definite	tempen	-
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

References

• “temp”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “temp”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “temp”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)