moderator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin moderātor. First attested as Middle English moderatour. By surface analysis, moderate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: moderators
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moderatour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Someone who moderates.
pos: noun
examples: Angling was […] a moderator of passions.
Instead of focusing on the stressors, as in most research on caregiving, it may be wise to focus on the likely moderators: coping, and social support between stressors and stress. It is often difficult to help an individual to solve his or her primary problem, whereas providing social support and improving coping ability is feasible.
gloss: Someone who moderates.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who moderates.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who moderates.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: The post was eventually removed by the subreddit’s moderators as potentially fake, but not before a screenshot of it went viral on Twitter and dozens of outlets circulated the story with headlines like “Girl Gets Sweet, Fiery Revenge on Ex With ‘Game of Thrones’ Spoilers.” […] Before r/relationships, Anne was a moderator in the similar but much more unruly r/relationship_advice, where she had to teach herself how to do the job.
gloss: The person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian church.
pos: noun
gloss: A substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission.
pos: noun
gloss: A device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
pos: noun
gloss: An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: One hall called Civil Law Hall or School, flouriſhed about this time (though in its buildings decayed) by the care of the learned and judicious Dr. Will. Warham Principal or Moderator thereof […]
gloss: At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
gloss: Someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: automoderator
back-seat moderator
backseat moderator
metamoderator
moderator band
moderatorhood
moderatorship
moderatress
modmin
neutron moderator
retromoderator
super moderator
supermoderator
supreme moderator
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: мадэра́тар
roman: maderátar
lang: Belarusian
word: мадэра́тарка
roman: maderátarka
lang: Bulgarian
word: арби́тър
roman: arbítǎr
lang: Bulgarian
word: модера́тор
roman: moderátor
lang: Catalan
word: moderador
lang: Czech
word: moderátor
lang: Czech
word: moderátorka
lang: Esperanto
word: moderatoro
lang: Esperanto
word: moderiganto
lang: Esperanto
word: moderigisto
lang: Finnish
word: sovittelija
lang: French
word: modérateur
lang: French
word: modératrice
lang: German
word: Moderator
lang: German
word: Moderatorin
lang: Hindi
word: मध्यस्थ
roman: madhyasth
lang: Hindi
word: संचालक
roman: sañcālak
lang: Hungarian
word: moderátor
lang: Italian
word: moderatore
lang: Italian
word: moderatrice
lang: Kalmyk
word: аядгч
roman: ayadgç
lang: Māori
word: kaiwhakataurite
lang: Polish
word: moderator
lang: Portuguese
word: moderador
lang: Portuguese
word: moderadora
lang: Russian
word: модера́тор
roman: modɛrátor
lang: Spanish
word: moderador
lang: Spanish
word: moderadora
lang: Tagalog
word: panamtam
lang: Turkish
word: aracı
lang: Turkish
word: moderatör
lang: Ukrainian
word: модера́тор
roman: moderátor
lang: Ukrainian
word: модера́торка
roman: moderátorka
lang: Urdu
word: مُنْتَظِم
roman: muntazim