tempered vs warm

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. 

warm

adj
  • Caring and friendly, of relations to another person. 

  • Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum. 

  • Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot. 

  • Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal. 

  • Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced. 

  • Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness 

verb
  • To scold or abuse verbally. 

  • To become ardent or animated. 

  • To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven. 

  • To become warm, to heat up. 

  • (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly. 

  • To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users. 

  • To make or keep warm. 

  • To beat or spank. 

noun
  • The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating. 

How often have the words tempered and warm occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )