moderator
Someone who moderatesSomeone who moderates.
» Tom was the moderator.
Meaning
12 sensesSomeone who moderates.
someone who presides over a forum or debate
Someone who moderates.
An arbitrator or mediator.
The chair or president of a meeting, etc.
(Internet)A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.
Moderator, Moderatorin
модера́торmodɛrátor
модера́торmoderátor, модера́торкаmoderátorka
The person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian church.
in the Presbyterian church, the officer who presides over a synod or general assembly
A substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission.
any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors
A device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
(UK)An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
(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.
(UK)Someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.
A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
(historical)A kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated.
Examples
11 sentencesTom was the moderator.
All submissions will be reviewed by a moderator.
The moderators banned me from the website for seven days.
At the moment, normal users cannot delete sentences, only moderators can.
Tom is a moderator.
ruТом - модератор.
deTom ist Moderator.
Translations
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Origin
Learned borrowing from Latin moderātor. First attested as Middle English moderatour. By suLearned borrowing from Latin moderātor. First attested as Middle English moderatour. By surface analysis, moderate + -or.
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Forms
plural: moderators| Singular | moderator |
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