temperverb

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Soft and fluffy
as smooth as silk/a baby's bottomidiom
billowy
cottony
feathery
flaccid
frothy
gauzy
lathery
limp
macerate
soften
softener
softness
soggily
sogginess
spongy
ultra-soft
velvet
velvety
workable

Examples from literature

Nickel steels may be annealed at lower temperatures than carbon steels, depending upon their alloy content. 
The purpose for which this steel is annealed is a deciding factor as to what heat to give it. 
The strip should be annealed during the rolling and again at the finish. 
The temperature producing the finest grain should be used for annealing and hardening. 
They are then roasted or annealed, so as to procure the requisite temper and colour, whether bronze or blue. 

Examples of anneal

anneal
Using shape annealing for pattern generation, spatial layouts that reflect desired styles as well as meet structural purpose can be generated.
If the energy has not been changed for a number of annealing cycles, the current solution is considered to be converged, and then stop.
Analysis of melting curves allowed optimization of annealing temperatures for each amplification product.
Nested primers were designed to anneal at the same temperature as the outer primer to minimise non-specific bands.
With the exception of annealing temperatures, reaction conditions employed were the same regardless of primer sets used.
Its advantage lies in the reduction of the number of other possible targets for annealing and hence results are easier to interpret.
First, the shape annealing method will be presented along with current capabilities to illustrate the role that syntax and semantics play in design generation.
The primer was complementary to the variable region of the second repeat, but it annealed with lower specificity also to the other 5 repeats.
An annealing schedule of learning rates was used.
Finding such a state is indeed a highly non-trivial task (similar to annealing of spin-glasses).
One location was within the fragment, where the primer was designed to anneal.
A natural long-term track annealing experiment on apatite.
The low amount of carbon and other admixtures as well as the annealing process result in a steel with a soft magnetic behaviour.
To make simulated annealing methods and genetic algorithms efficient, clever enhancements exploiting expert knowledge about the problem class at hand are essential.
Applying shape annealing to full-scale transmission tower re-design.
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