tempered vs vanilla

tempered

adj
  • Having a specified disposition or temper. 

  • Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals. 

  • Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune. 

  • Pertaining to the industrial process for toughening glass, or to such toughened glass. 

  • Moderated or balanced by other considerations. 

vanilla

adj
  • Plain; conventional; unimaginative. 

  • Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic. 

  • Not kinky, not involving BDSM. 

  • Of vanilla. 

noun
  • The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant. 

  • The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract. 

  • Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes. 

  • Someone who is not into fetishism. 

  • The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant. 

  • A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream. 

  • An unmodded version of a game. 

  • Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals. 

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