单词 | moderate |
释义 | Word Frequency moderateadjective (ˈmɒdərɪt, ˈmɒdrɪt) 1. not extreme or excessive; within due or reasonable limits moderate demands 2. not violent; mild or temperate 3. of average quality or extent moderate success noun (ˈmɒdərɪt, ˈmɒdrɪt) 4. a person who holds moderate views, esp in politics verb (ˈmɒdəˌreɪt) 5. to become or cause to become less extreme or violent 6. (when intr, often foll by over) to preside over a meeting, discussion, etc 7. British and New Zealand to act as an external moderator of the overall standards and marks for (some types of educational assessment) 8. physics to slow down (neutrons), esp by using a moderator 9. (transitive) to monitor (the conversations in an online chatroom or posts on a message board) for bad language, inappropriate content, etc Derived forms moderately (ˈmoderately) adverb moderateness (ˈmoderateness) noun moderatism (ˈmoderatism) noun Word origin C14: from Latin moderātus observing moderation, from moderārī to restrain |
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