Kevin McCarthy

There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to.

American Politician

Claire Saffitz

Deep-frying properly requires you to keep the oil at a precise temperature range depending on the food. If you're frying in more than an inch of oil you really should invest in a deep-fat thermometer so you can monitor the temperature and know when to adjust the heat.

American Editor

Nathan Myhrvold

The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they're both enormously valuable.

American Businessman

Sam Kean

I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Being sick always gave me another chance to break an old-fashioned mercury thermometer, too.

American Writer

Graydon Carter

You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

American Journalist

Gilbert White

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.

English Scientist

Cory Booker

You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature.

Emeril Lagasse

I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend.

American Chef

Napoleon Bonaparte

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

French Statesman

Vin Scully

I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

American Celebrity

Thermometers come in many forms, from analog with mercury to digital models with sensors.

Types Vary

Thermometers may display temperature in Celsius, Fahrenheit, or both, depending on the region.

Measurement Units

When using a thermometer, ensure it is accurate for tasks like cooking or medical use.

Accuracy Matters

In figurative speech, 'thermometer' signifies something that reflects the state of a situation.

Indicative Usage

The word may be used to express how something feels to a community, like 'social thermometer'.

Cultural Expression

A 'political thermometer' can indicate the popularity or discontent with a government or policy.

Political Climate

 Let's take health. In the future, there will be air-quality monitors at every street corner, and they will be connected with your asthma inhaler so that you know when it's safe to go out. Or there will be infrared cameras that are measuring the temperature of citizens anonymously and that will be connected with your thermometer

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 observed along with physical symptoms such as increased heart rate, low blood pressure and rapid breathing or signs of central nervous system disfunction such as confused behavior, aggression or loss of consciousness. The most feasible and accurate way to assess core body temperature is with a rectal thermometer

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 In reality, a frog will detect slowly heating water and leap to safety. Humans, on the other hand, are a different story. We’re perfectly happy to sit in the pot and slowly turn up the heat, all the while insisting it isn’t our hand on the dial, arguing about whether we can trust thermometers,

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 thermal heating cooling curve and we went out and we built a model around that and we said we can predict that if you go to this particular part of the mountain range and you put a thermometer in it will tell you what the temperature is going to be and so we went out and

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 does that so the dasher rig has pressure sensors at the ground the mid-level and up top we've got a wind speed at all three locations got a complete weather station here this is a infrared thermometer and its goal is to look at a really dusty dust devil and see the

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 A few years ago, I broke into my own house. I had just driven home, it was around midnight in the dead of Montreal winter, I had been visiting my friend, Jeff, across town, and the thermometer on the front porch read minus 40 degrees --

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 for understanding standardized tests. To understand the difference between them, we can use the metaphor of two broken thermometers. An unreliable thermometer gives you a different reading each time you take your temperature,

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 and humans must fear to tread there more if camels don't like the place you can't take your normal thermometer that only goes up to 120 otherwise you'll never know how hot it is and you need to think

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 colder than that our weather station is not very reliable as we've said I don't know I wonder where we get that reading from me I need to find out perhaps go turn the thermometer down a little bit

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 investigate the natural world around us we use glass to make test tubes you can see inside to watch what happens in different chemical reactions use test tubes to make simple thermometers so you