21 Metaphors for temperatures

* Temperature is another branch of our subject, and one involving a series of subordinate topics on which volumes have been written, and to which are still devoted the labors of the most learned men of our day.

Hence the temperature of the moon's dark surface will be the [fourth root of (1 over 100)]

The lowest temperature we had observed on these depot excursions was -50° Centigrade.

Such a temperature was not the best medicine for that cough of hers.

Whether the inhabitants betake themselves at that period of the year to the mountains to escape the heat, and then return to the lowlands when the temperature is fresher, or whether they had fled out of fear of the cannibals, is not precisely known.

But the temperature was ten degrees below zero one day at noon, and the next day twenty-four below zero at 9 a.m. and nine above zero at noon.

The temperature is 35°, the water 29.2° to 29.5°.

The communication is by a stone-work passage, the temperature of which is a refreshing succedaneum to that of the conservatories, or 72°.

But the temperature of the place, if nothing else, was plainly the work of magic, for blossoms and fruit abounded at the same time.

The temperature sank considerably, and I deem it probable that the mean annual temperature which we recorded, -26° Centigrade, is the lowest mean temperature which has ever been observed.

The temperature of the springs is 180° Fahrenheit, and I suppose the tank into which he afterwards plunged me must have been nearly up to the mark.

That high temperature was the source of his inspiration, and the secret of a spell which, during his life, commanded homage and drew forth love.

In such places white frost is not rare during the months of January, February, and March, while on the tops of hills the temperature is milder, frost being almost unknown.

Mary Mitford was a genuinely warm-hearted woman, and much of her talk would probably be stigmatised by the young gentlemen of the present generation, who consider the moral temperature of a fish to be "good form," as "gush."

the mean January temperature is from-30°F. to-60°F., and the whole subsoil is permanently frozen from a depth of 6 or 7 feet to several hundreds.

The three curves which begin at the lower left hand corner and rise to the right are heat curves and represent the increase of temperature corresponding with different pressures and volumes, assuming in one case that the temperature of the air before admission to the compressor is zero, in another sixty degrees, and in another one hundred degrees.

Roughly speaking, the average temperature of the air over it is 75° Fahr.

The temperature alone would have been sufficient evidence, if evidence were needed, that we were entering the coldest region on the globethe Siberian province of Yakutsk.

His temperature under the tongue was 97.2 deg.

And plans were being discussed, where formerly temperatures and coughs and general symptoms were the usual subjects of conversation!

At Colfax I bought fruit; at Arlington the temperature was like summer.

21 Metaphors for  temperatures