noun
Meaning 1
Someone who moderates.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
moderator
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noun
Meaning 2
Someone who moderates.
An arbitrator or mediator.
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noun
Meaning 3
Someone who moderates.
The chair or president of a meeting, etc.
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noun
Meaning 4
Someone who moderates.
A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
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noun
Meaning 5
The person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian church.
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noun
Meaning 6
A substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission.
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Qualifier: nuclear physics
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noun
Meaning 7
A device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
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noun
Meaning 8
An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
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Usage: UK
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noun
Meaning 9
At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
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Usage: Ireland
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noun
Meaning 10
Someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.
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Usage: UK
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noun
Meaning 11
A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
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noun
Meaning 12
A kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated.
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Usage: historical
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noun
Meaning 13
someone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: mediator, go-between, intermediator, intermediary, intercessor
Narrower terms: modifier
noun
Meaning 14
someone who presides over a forum or debate
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Broader terms: presiding officer
noun
Meaning 15
in the Presbyterian church, the officer who presides over a synod or general assembly
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Broader terms: presiding officer
noun
Meaning 16
any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: inhibitor
Narrower terms: heavy water, deuterium oxide
History
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin moderātor. First attested as Middle English moderatour. By surface analysis, moderate + -or.
Across languages
Translations
64 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: мадэра́тар (maderátar) — someone who moderates
- Belarusian: мадэра́тарка (maderátarka) — someone who moderates
- Bulgarian: арби́тър (arbítǎr) — someone who moderates
- Bulgarian: модера́тор (moderátor) — someone who moderates
- Catalan: moderador — someone who moderates
- Czech: moderátor — someone who moderates
- Czech: moderátorka — someone who moderates
- Esperanto: moderatoro — someone who moderates
- Esperanto: moderiganto — someone who moderates
- Esperanto: moderigisto — someone who moderates
- Finnish: sovittelija — someone who moderates
- French: modérateur — someone who moderates
- French: modératrice — someone who moderates
- German: Moderator — someone who moderates
- German: Moderatorin — someone who moderates
- Hindi: मध्यस्थ (madhyasth) — someone who moderates
- Hindi: संचालक (sañcālak) — someone who moderates
- Hungarian: moderátor — someone who moderates
- Italian: moderatore — someone who moderates
- Italian: moderatrice — someone who moderates
- Kalmyk: аядгч (ayadgç) — someone who moderates
- Māori: kaiwhakataurite — someone who moderates
- Polish: moderator — someone who moderates
- Portuguese: moderador — someone who moderates
- Portuguese: moderadora — someone who moderates
- Russian: модера́тор (modɛrátor) — someone who moderates
- Spanish: moderador — someone who moderates
- Spanish: moderadora — someone who moderates
- Tagalog: panamtam — someone who moderates
- Turkish: aracı — someone who moderates
- Turkish: moderatör — someone who moderates
- Ukrainian: модера́тор (moderátor) — someone who moderates
- Ukrainian: модера́торка (moderátorka) — someone who moderates
- Urdu: مُنْتَظِم (muntazim) — someone who moderates
- Māori: motoreta — person who presides over the synod of the Presbyterian church
- Arabic: مُشْرِف (mušrif) — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Belarusian: мадэра́тар (maderátar) — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Belarusian: мадэра́тарка (maderátarka) — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Bulgarian: модера́тор (moderátor) — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Chinese Mandarin: 版主 (bǎnzhǔ) — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Chinese Mandarin: 管理 (guǎnlǐ) — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Chinese Mandarin: 吧務 /吧务 (bāwù) — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Esperanto: moderatoro — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Esperanto: moderiganto — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Finnish: valvoja — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- French: modérateur — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- French: modératrice — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Georgian: მოდერატორი (moderaṭori) — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- German: Moderator — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- German: Moderatorin — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Hindi: मध्यस्थ (madhyasth) — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Hindi: संचालक (sañcālak) — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Italian: moderatore — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Italian: moderatrice — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Polish: moderator — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Polish: moderatorka — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Portuguese: moderador — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Portuguese: moderadora — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Russian: модера́тор (modɛrátor) — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Spanish: moderador — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Spanish: moderadora — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Turkish: moderatör — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Ukrainian: модера́тор (moderátor) — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
- Ukrainian: модера́торка (moderátorka) — (Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum
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