moderateとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• Adjective, noun:
  • (英国発音): IPA^(key): /ˈmɒdəɹət/
  • (米国発音): enPR: mäd'ər-ət, IPA^(key): /ˈmɑdəɹət/
• Verb:
  • (英国発音): IPA^(key): /ˈmɒdəɹeɪt/
  • (米国発音): enPR: mäd'ə-rāt, IPA^(key): /ˈmɑdəɹeɪt/

形容詞

moderate (comparative more moderate, superlative most moderate)

1. Not excessive; acting in moderation

   moderate language

   a moderate Calvinist

   travelling at a moderate speed

   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit

     A number of moderate members managed […] to obtain a majority in a thin house.

2. Mediocre
3. Average priced; standard-deal
4. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.

   a moderate winter

   • 1859, Arthur Hugh Clough, Life of Sertorius

     These are called the Islands of the Blest; rains fall there seldom, and in moderate showers, but for the most part they have gentle breezes, bringing along with them soft dews

5. (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:moderate
• See also Thesaurus:intermediate

派生語

• moderately
• moderateness

名詞

moderate (複数形 moderates)

1. One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.

   While the moderates usually propose political compromise, it's often only achieved when the extremists allow them so

   The moderates are the natural advocates of ecumenism against the fanatics of their churches.

2. (Christianity, historical) One of a party in Scottish Church history dominant in the 18th century, lax in doctrine and discipline, but intolerant of evangelicalism and popular rights. It caused the secessions of 1733 and 1761, and its final resultant was the Disruption of 1843.

動詞

moderate (三人称単数 現在形 moderates, 現在分詞 moderating, 過去形および過去分詞形 moderated)

1. (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something)

   to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.

   • 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments

     By its astringent Quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm Water.

   • 2000, Paul G. Coleman, Positron Beams and Their Applications (page 309)

     This leaves two strategies to increase the current in a positron beam. First is to provide a stronger positron source and second is to develop a more efficient method to moderate the source positrons into a monoenergetic beam.

     To moderate stiff minds disposed to strive.

2. (intransitive) To become less excessive
3. (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator

   to moderate a synod

4. (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise
5. (transitive, physics) To supply with a moderator (substance that decreases the speed of neutrons in a nuclear reactor かつ hence increases likelihood of fission).

   a graphite-moderated reactor

同意語

• (reduce excesses): temperate
• (preside): arbitrate, chair

派生語

• moderation
• moderating

関連する語

• modal
• modality
• mode
• model
• moderator
• module

参照

• moderate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.
• moderate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.