Definitions for MODERATOR
ˈmɒd əˌreɪ tərmod·er·a·tor

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. moderatornoun

   any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors

2. moderatornoun

   in the Presbyterian church, the officer who presides over a synod or general assembly

3. moderatornoun

   someone who presides over a forum or debate

4. moderatornoun

   someone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violence

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. moderatornoun

   someone who moderates

2. moderatornoun

   the person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church

3. moderatornoun

   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. moderatornoun

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

5. Etymology: From moderator.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Moderatornoun

   Etymology: moderator, Lat. moderateur, Fr.

   1. The person or thing that calms or restrains.

   Angling was, after tedious study, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, and a procurer of contentedness. Izaak Walton, Angler.

   2. One who presides in a disputation, to restrain the contending parties from indecency, and confine them to the question.

   Sometimes the moderator is more troublesome than the actor. Francis Bacon, Essays.

   How does Philopolis seasonably commit the opponent with the respondent, like a long-practised moderator? More.

   The first person who speaks when the court is set, opens the case to the judge, chairman, or moderator of the assembly, and gives his own reasons for his opinion. Isaac Watts.

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1. moderator

   A moderator is a person or entity that oversees and manages discussions, debates or proceedings within a given setting such as an online forum, meeting, conference, or broadcast debate. They aim to facilitate productive and respectful dialogue, enforce established rules, mediate conflicts and sometimes provide subject-matter expertise. Moderators ensure that all parties have an opportunity to have their voices heard while maintaining a respectful and civil environment.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Moderatornoun

   one who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies

2. Moderatornoun

   the officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the votes

3. Moderatornoun

   in the University of Oxford, an examiner for moderations; at Cambridge, the superintendant of examinations for degrees; at Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts

4. Moderatornoun

   a mechamical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect

5. Etymology: [L.: cf. F. modrateur.]

Matched Categories

1. • Inhibitor
   • Mediator
   • Presiding Officer

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'MODERATOR' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4160

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How to pronounce MODERATOR?

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How to say MODERATOR in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of MODERATOR in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of MODERATOR in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of MODERATOR in a Sentence

1. Tomasz Kubiak:

   General Leszek Suski( Polish fire brigades chief commander) has issued a decision that from tomorrow all escape rooms, game centers and clubs will undergo fire safety inspections with special attention paid to evacuation plans, escape routes in these type of locations, there should be a moderator in each location able to unlock the rooms and let people out. We will check this and it will be strictly controlled.

2. Justin Sherman:

   In a scenario where you identify and expect a platform to remove leaked classified documents, you’re asking that company to do classified document verification, that is not something your average moderator, especially for these companies that farm out their content moderation to people in low-resource countries that they underpay, are going to be able to do.

3. Frank Fahrenkopf:

   The moderator is a facilitator.

4. Guy Rosen:

   This is a bug in an anti-spam system, unrelated to any change in our content moderator workforce, we've restored all the posts that were incorrectly removed, which included posts on all topics - not just those related to COVID-19. This was an issue with an automated system that removes links to abusive websites, but incorrectly removed a lot of other posts too.

5. Karl Rove:

   If you like Trump, that's not going to necessarily turn you off but the issue is that 80% of the people are supporting somebody else, language like that, attack on Megyn (Kelly, the Fox News debate moderator), his refusal to say I'm a team player -- all of those things create a ceiling on how far he could go, and I think we may actually see some diminution in support of the next couple of weeks.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=MODERATOR
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Moderator
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=MODERATOR
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/MODERATOR
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=MODERATOR