Word Meanings - MODERATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies. Sir W. Raleigh. Angling was ... a moderator of passions. Walton. 2. The officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare

Additional info about word: MODERATOR

1. One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies. Sir W. Raleigh. Angling was ... a moderator of passions. Walton. 2. The officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the votes. 3. In the University of Oxford, an examiner for moderations; at Cambridge, the superintendant of examinations for degrees; at Dublin, either the first or second in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 4. A mechamical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MODERATOR)

• Arbiter
• Arbitrator
• judge
• umpire
• moderator
• director
• referee
• adjudicator
• President
• Chairman
• principal
• superintendent

Related words: (words related to MODERATOR)

• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• PRESIDENT
  Precedent. Bacon.
• UMPIRESHIP
  Umpirage; arbitrament. Jewel.
• MODERATOR
  1. One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies. Sir W. Raleigh. Angling was ... a moderator of passions. Walton. 2. The officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare
• JUDGER
  One who judges. Sir K. Digby.
• DIRECTORY
  Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
• ARBITRATOR
  1. A person, or one of two or more persons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. See Arbitration. 2. One who has the power of deciding or prescribing without control; a ruler; a governor. Though Heaven be shut,
• REFEREE
  One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it. Syn. -- Judge; arbitrator; umpire. See Judge.
• DIRECTORSHIP
  The condition or office of a director; directorate.
• MODERATORSHIP
  The office of a moderator.
• DIRECTORIAL
  1. Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive. 2. Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. Whoever goes to the directorial presence
• UMPIRE
  A third person, who is to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators in case of their disagreement. Blackstone. Syn. -- Judge; arbitrator; referee. See Judge. (more info) uneven), fr. OF. nomper uneven, F. non-pair; hence
• CHAIRMAN
  1. The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body. 2. One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan. Breaks watchmen's heads and chairmen's glasses. Prior.
• CHAIRMANSHIP
  The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.
• JUDGE
  A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose. The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length,
• JUDGESHIP
  The office of a judge.
• PRINCIPALLY
  In a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly.
• JUDGE-MADE
  Created by judges or judicial decision; -- applied esp. to law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often used
• DIRECTORATE
  The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• PREJUDGE
  To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a
• FOREJUDGER
  A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.
• GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
  A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
• ABJUDGE
  To take away by judicial decision.
• REJUDGE
  To judge again; to re Rejudge his acts, and dignify disgrace. Pope.
• ILL-JUDGED
  Not well judged; unwise.