Thermometer mudziyo wakagadzirirwa kuyera tembiricha . Kune mhando dzakawanda dzethermometer, asi dzese dzinoshanda nepfungwa imwe chete. Kazhinji, tinoshandisa zvinhu zvinodziya tembiricha, hunhu hunochinja netembiricha. Kana tembiricha yechinhu ikachinja, chimiro nehukuru hwacho zvinochinjawo. Mazhinji ethermometer anoshandisa zvinhu zvinokura kana kupfupika nekuchinja kwetembiricha.
Thermometer iyo inowanzoshandiswa mazuva ano inosanganisira chubhu yegirazi, umo mune doro kana 
mercury iri pakati pechubhu. Kana suhu Kana tembiricha ichiwedzera, doro kana mercury iri mumudziyo inowedzera, zvichiwedzera kureba kwe alcohol kana mercury column. Kusiyana neizvi, sezvo tembiricha ichiderera, kureba kwe alcohol kana mercury column kunoderera. Kunze kwechubhu yegirazi kune nhamba dzinomiririra chiyero che thermometer. Nhamba inoratidzwa nepamusoro pe alcohol kana mercury column inoratidza tembiricha yechinhu chiri kuyerwa.
Imwe mhando yethermometer inowanzoshandiswa ndeye inoshandisa bimetallic strip (simbi mbiri dzakasiyana dzine mwero wekuwedzera wakasiyana). Sezvo tembiricha ichiwedzera, imwe simbi inokura kupfuura imwe, zvichiita kuti strip ikotama. Kazhinji, bimetallic strip ine chimiro che spiral, ine mugumo mumwe wakasimba uye imwe yakabatana ne scale pointer. Sezvo tembiricha ichichinja, pointer inotenderera. Ma Thermometer anoshandisa bimetallic strips anowanzo shandiswa se air thermometers dzakajairwa, room thermometers, oven thermometers, nezvimwewo.
Mathermometers akanyatsojeka, kana kuti akanyatsojeka, anowanzo shandisa hunhu hwemagetsi hwechinhu. Semuenzaniso, thermometer inodzivisa kupisa inoyera shanduko mukudzivirira kupisa kwemagetsi kwesimbi yakatetepa yewaya kana silinda yekabhoni kana germanium crystal. Nekuti kudzivirira kupisa kwemagetsi kunogona kuyerwa nemazvo, mathermometers anodzivisa kupisa anogona kuyera kupisa zvakanyanya kupfuura mathermometers akajairwa.
