a disease of animals, especially dogs, that causes a high temperature and coughing (= forcing air through the throat suddenly and noisily) 瘟热(动物,尤指猫、狗的传染病) - (British English)
a type of paint that is mixed with glue (= a sticky substance) and used on walls 刷墙水粉;水浆涂料;水性墙漆
Word Originsense 2 late Middle English (originally as a verb in the senses ‘dilute’ and ‘steep’): from Old French destremper or late Latin distemperare ‘soak’. sense 1 mid 16th cent. (originally in the sense ‘bad temper’, later ‘illness’): from Middle English distemper ‘upset, derange’, from late Latin distemperare ‘soak, mix in the wrong proportions’, from dis- ‘thoroughly’ + temperare ‘mingle’. Compare with temper. The current sense dates from the mid 18th cent.