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

   • (Can we date this quote by Jonathan Swift かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     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

   • (Can we date this quote by Walter かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     moderate showers

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.

   • (Can we date this quote by Arbuthnot かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

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

   • (Can we date this quote by Spenser かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)
   • 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

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.

Latin

動詞

moderāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of moderō

参照

• moderate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• moderate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers