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moderator.

Someone who moderates.

9 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈmɒdəˌɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
  1. Someone who moderates.

  2. Someone who moderates. An arbitrator or mediator.

  3. Someone who moderates. The chair or president of a meeting, etc.

  4. Someone who moderates. A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.

    Internet
  5. The person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian church.

  6. A substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission.

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

  8. An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.

    UK
  9. At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

    Ireland
  10. Someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.

    UK
  11. A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.

  12. A kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated.

    historical
Where this word comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin moderātor. First attested as Middle English moderatour. By surface analysis, moderate + -or.

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