moderator

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See also: Moderator and moderátor

English

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin moderātor. First attested as Middle English moderatour.

Pronunciation

Noun

moderator (plural moderators)

  1. Someone who moderates.
    • 1653, Iz Wa, The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, , London: T. Maxey for Rich Marriot, , →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:
      Angling was a moderator of passions.
    • 2024 December 16, Amanda M. Y. Chu, Damen H. Y. Woo, Agnes Tiwari, Helina Yuk, Mike K. P. So, “Which types of family caregivers are more prone to developing depression? Leveraging non-financial social support to mitigate depression”, in Current Psychology, →DOI:
      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.
    1. An arbitrator or mediator.
    2. The chair or president of a meeting, etc.
    3. (Internet) A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.
      Synonym: mod
  2. The person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church.
  3. (nuclear physics) A substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission.
  4. A device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
  5. (UK) An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
    • 1792, Anthony à Wood, The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford: In Two Books, volume 1, Oxford: John Gutch, →OCLC, page 661:
      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
  6. (Ireland) At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
  7. (UK) Someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.
  8. A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
  9. (historical) A kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated.

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Translations

Indonesian

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Etymology

From Dutch moderator, from Latin moderātor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: mo‧dê‧ra‧tor

Noun

moderator (plural moderator-moderator)

  1. moderator:
    1. someone who moderates: an arbitrator or mediator;
    2. someone who moderates: the chair or president of a meeting
      Synonym: pemandu
    3. (engineering) a substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission

Derived terms

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From moderor +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

Noun

moderātor m (genitive moderātōris, feminine moderātrīx); third declension

  1. manager, ruler, governor, director
  2. moderator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative moderātor moderātōrēs
genitive moderātōris moderātōrum
dative moderātōrī moderātōribus
accusative moderātōrem moderātōrēs
ablative moderātōre moderātōribus
vocative moderātor moderātōrēs

Verb

moderātor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of moderō

Descendants

References

  • moderator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • moderator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "moderator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • moderator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French modérateur, from Latin moderatore. By surface analysis, modera +‎ -tor.

Noun

moderator n (plural moderatori)

  1. moderator

Declension

Declension of moderator
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative moderator moderatorul moderatori moderatorile
genitive-dative moderator moderatorului moderatori moderatorilor
vocative moderatorule moderatorilor

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

moderator m (Cyrillic spelling модератор)

  1. moderator

Swedish

Noun

moderator c

  1. a moderator (at a debate or the like)
  2. (Internet) a moderator
    Synonym: mod
  3. (nuclear physics) a moderator

Declension

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