Tempragenous

Adjective to describe a person who has succeeded four generations. They are so old you never question that they are beyond all new beginnings because they have clearly fulfilled their destiny.

“This tree named Todd is tempragenous.”

by veva August 12, 2020

Temporary Distraction Measure

A Temporary Distraction Measure or TDM for short is the basis of modern politics and business. Anytime a politician forms a committee to 'look into' something it is nothing but a ruse intended to temporarily distract the voting public long enough for them to forget all about it.
Anything (Committee, poll, vote, investigation, senate hearing, etc) that can be used to successfully distract people from issues that they were formally concerned about long enough for them to forget completely about it.

Anything that makes you (the voter) think we (politicians) are doing something about it when we're really not.

E.X. Senate Democrats hold hearings to investigate windfall profits generated by the obscene price of oil.

Two weeks later, the American public will have forgotten all about it and will rest content that the government is doing it's job. Hence, it was a successful Temporary Distraction Measure.

E.X. During the Senate hearing over whether to clarify net neutrality, the Senators rambled on for a few weeks until another celebrity got knocked up and everybody that was wanting it codified, forgot all about it.
Temporary Distraction Measure

by Crashingtests July 4, 2008

temporary pull-up

The act of loosely raising one’s pants, capris, or shorts, along with any undergarments, in order to switch stalls in an empty public restroom due to the absence of toilet paper in the original stall. Persons performing the temporary pull-up must do so in such a way as to minimize drippage or the transfer of poo particles onto his or her clothing.

Jill’s search for a clean toilet seat landed her in a stall with no toilet paper, so she had to do the temporary pull-up in order to find a stall with toilet paper.

by Miss ET August 9, 2008

tempera tantrum

Refers to a noisy/voluminous outburst of frazzled-nerved emotion involving watercolors, either emanating from a creator/observer of a messy spill/soiling involving said paint, or the resulting preposterous canvas-creation (think, abstract art) when the "genius painter" supposedly experiences a "creative epiphany" and totally "goes wild" with his colors in an effort to supposedly illustrate his inspirations, emotions, Heavenly-based vision, etc.

Old-school art-critic: I can't believe that the TV auction actually sold that hideous tempera tantrum for several million dollars --- first of all, who in his right mind would even WANT that confusing monstrosity slapped up on his parlor-wall to stare at night and day, anyway?? And second, why should anyone want to actually BUY something like that, when it's nothing special and exhibits absolutely zero talent? Why, I'm no artist, but I could easily create something like that myself in under five minutes just by splashing some paint around and callin' it good! Zheeeeeesh....!!

by QuacksO December 12, 2017

tempathy

tem·pa·thy /ˈtempəTHē/ noun / the ability to understand and share the feelings of another through tweets.

“After hours on twitter she knew that her tempathy for their tweets would exhaust her.”

by lifeintheair January 12, 2019

Templan

A Templan is a detailed outline of which measurements will be taken at what times, on which material, in what manner, and by whom.

Templan should be designed in such a way that the resulting data will contain a representative sample of the parameters of interest and allow for all questions, as stated in the goals, to be answered.

by Hez0000 February 5, 2022

Templan

Explore the ways to do everything: Steps to learn, Checklist to make, Tasks to do ...

Guy 1: I want to find the approach to get things done.
Guy 2: Yes, go to Templan.

by balabacon February 9, 2022