Meaning

12 senses
  1. Someone who moderates.

    someone who presides over a forum or debate

  2. Someone who moderates.

    An arbitrator or mediator.

  3. The chair or president of a meeting, etc.

  4. (Internet)A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.

    Moderator, Moderatorin

    модера́торmodɛrátor

    модера́торmoderátor, модера́торкаmoderátorka

  5. 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

  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.

    any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors

  7. A device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.

  8. (UK)An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.

  9. (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.

  10. (UK)Someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.

  11. A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.

  12. (historical)A kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated.

Examples

11 sentences
  1. Tom was the moderator.

  2. All submissions will be reviewed by a moderator.

  3. The moderators banned me from the website for seven days.

    CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · Eccles17 · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  4. At the moment, normal users cannot delete sentences, only moderators can.

    CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · MarekMazurkiewicz · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  5. Tom is a moderator.

    ruТом - модератор. — marafon

    deTom ist Moderator. — Naina

    CC0 · Tatoeba · ddnktr · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

9 languages
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Origin

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

Learned borrowing from Latin moderātor. First attested as Middle English moderatour. By surface analysis, moderate + -or.

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