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Moderate vs. Intermediate

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Moderateadjective

Not excessive; acting in moderation

ā€˜moderate language’; ā€˜a moderate Calvinist’; ā€˜travelling at a moderate speed’;

Intermediateadjective

Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

Moderateadjective

Mediocre

Intermediatenoun

Anything in an intermediate position.

Moderateadjective

Average priced; standard-deal

Intermediatenoun

An intermediary.

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Moderateadjective

Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.

ā€˜a moderate winter’;

Intermediatenoun

(chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.

Moderateadjective

Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.

Intermediateverb

(intransitive) To mediate, to be an intermediate.

Moderatenoun

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

ā€˜While the moderates usually propose political compromise, it's often only achieved when the extremists allow them so’; ā€˜The moderates are the natural advocates of ecumenism against the fanatics of their churches.''’;

Intermediateverb

(transitive) To arrange, in the manner of a broker.

ā€˜Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.’;

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Moderateverb

(transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something)

ā€˜to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.’;

Intermediateadjective

Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors.

Moderateverb

(intransitive) To become less excessive

Intermediateadjective

Of or pertaining to an intermediate school; as, intermediate education.

Moderateverb

(transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator

ā€˜to moderate a synod’;

Intermediateverb

To come between; to intervene; to interpose.

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Moderateverb

(intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise

Intermediatenoun

A person who intermediates between others, especially in negotiations; an intermediary; a mediator.

Moderateadjective

Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained

ā€˜A number of moderate members managed . . . to obtain a majority in a thin house.’;

Intermediatenoun

Something that is intermediate.

Moderateadjective

Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter.

Intermediatenoun

A compound which is produced in the course of a chemical synthesis, which is not itself the final product, but is used in further reactions which produce the final product; also called synthetic intermediate, intermediate compound or intermediate product; - contrasted to starting material and end product or final product. There may be many different intermediates between the starting material and end product in the course of a complex synthesis; as, many industrial chemicals are produced primarily to be used as intermediates in other syntheses.

Moderatenoun

One of a party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th century, and part of the 19th, professing moderation in matters of church government, in discipline, and in doctrine.

Intermediatenoun

a substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained

Moderateverb

To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind.

ā€˜By its astringent quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm water.’; ā€˜To moderate stiff minds disposed to strive.’;

Intermediateverb

act between parties with a view to reconciling differences;

ā€˜He interceded in the family dispute’; ā€˜He mediated a settlement’;

Moderateverb

To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting or a discussion; as, to moderate a synod; to moderate a debate.

Intermediateadjective

lying between two extremes in time or space or degree;

ā€˜going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands’; ā€˜intermediate stages in a process’; ā€˜intermediate stops on the route’; ā€˜an intermediate level’; ā€˜the last time I saw Paris’; ā€˜the last day of the month’; ā€˜had the last word’; ā€˜waited until the last minute’; ā€˜he raised his voice in a last supreme call’; ā€˜the last game of the season’; ā€˜down to his last nickel’;

Moderateverb

To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.

Intermediateadjective

around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures;

ā€˜an orange of average size’; ā€˜intermediate capacity’; ā€˜a plane with intermediate range’; ā€˜medium bombers’;

Moderateverb

To preside as a moderator.

ā€˜Dr. Barlow [was] engaged . . . to moderate for him in the divinity disputation.’;

Intermediateadjective

coming between two things in time, place, character, etc.

ā€˜a cooled liquid intermediate between liquid and solid’; ā€˜an intermediate stage of development’;

Moderatenoun

a person who takes a position in the political center

Intermediateadjective

having or suitable for a level of knowledge or skill between basic and advanced

ā€˜an intermediate course’; ā€˜intermediate skiers’;

Moderateverb

preside over;

ā€˜John moderated the discussion’;

Intermediatenoun

an intermediate thing.

Moderateverb

make less fast or intense;

ā€˜moderate your speed’;

Intermediatenoun

a person at an intermediate level of knowledge or skill

ā€˜photography courses for beginners and intermediates’;

Moderateverb

lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits;

ā€˜moderate your alcohol intake’; ā€˜hold your tongue’; ā€˜hold your temper’; ā€˜control your anger’;

Intermediatenoun

a chemical compound formed by one reaction and then taking part in another, especially during synthesis

ā€˜a pathway leading to the formation of reactive intermediates’;

Moderateverb

make less severe or harsh;

ā€˜He moderated his tone when the students burst out in tears’;

Intermediateverb

act as intermediary; mediate

ā€˜groups which intermediated between the individual and the state’;

Moderateverb

make less strong or intense; soften;

ā€˜Tone down that aggressive letter’; ā€˜The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements’;

Moderateverb

restrain or temper

Moderateadjective

being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme;

ā€˜moderate prices’; ā€˜a moderate income’; ā€˜a moderate fine’; ā€˜moderate demands’; ā€˜a moderate estimate’; ā€˜a moderate eater’; ā€˜moderate success’; ā€˜a kitchen of moderate size’; ā€˜the X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart’;

Moderateadjective

not extreme;

ā€˜a moderate penalty’; ā€˜temperate in his response to criticism’;

Moderateadjective

marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes;

ā€˜moderate in his demands’; ā€˜restrained in his response’;

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