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What is the difference between temporary and temporally and temporal ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between temporary and temporally and temporal ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Temporary is a common word. It’s an adjective meaning “for a short time”, or “Will be changed later”.
“They’re working on the road, so a temporary diversion is in place”.
“We have temporary phones until the proper ones arrive”
It can also be used to describe a worker on a short contract, often shortened to “temp”.
“The company needs to get all the files into storage, so it hired a lot of temps”
“I spent the summer doing temp work in a warehouse”.
Temporal is a less common word. It means “to do with time”.
“In the film Groundhog Day, Phil Connors is stuck in a temporal loop”
(This one comes up a lot in Star Trek as well).
Temporally is the adverb form of “temporal”. I actually don’t think I’ve ever heard it used.
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Temporary is a common word. It’s an adjective meaning “for a short time”, or “Will be changed later”.
“They’re working on the road, so a temporary diversion is in place”.
“We have temporary phones until the proper ones arrive”
It can also be used to describe a worker on a short contract, often shortened to “temp”.
“The company needs to get all the files into storage, so it hired a lot of temps”
“I spent the summer doing temp work in a warehouse”.
Temporal is a less common word. It means “to do with time”.
“In the film Groundhog Day, Phil Connors is stuck in a temporal loop”
(This one comes up a lot in Star Trek as well).
Temporally is the adverb form of “temporal”. I actually don’t think I’ve ever heard it used.
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