“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. 2018 February 8, Terry Liittschwager, chapter 30, in Wrongful Act, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2024:
To measure or check the temperature of something, especially food or equipment in a commercial kitchen.
Our dairy section coolers have been temping at 50 degrees for two hours and the product is temping at 45. 2025 July 25, Reddit:
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 2023 February 25, Reddit:
Consequently, the unit executes and places the result in a temp register. 2001, John Y. Hsu, Computer Architecture: Software Aspects, Coding, and Hardware:
(informal) Synonym of temporary (“short-term employee”).
(informal) Synonym of temporary (“short-term variable”).
That is, r-values include numeric constants, nonaddressable local variables (temps) […] 2014, Andrew W. Appel, Program Logics for Certified Compilers, page 162:
(informal, transitive) To work as a temporary employee.
--I temp for money, but it's not my main thing. I write plays. 2007, The Savages, 01:24:50
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cmn 打零工 (to work as a temporary employee) · es trabajar temporáneamente (to work as a temporary employee) · de jobben (to work as a temporary employee) · es laburar temporeramente (to work as a temporary employee) · sv vikariera (to work as a temporary employee) · es chambear temporariamente (to work as a temporary employee) · cs brigádničit (to work as a temporary employee) · sv vicka (to work as a temporary employee)