Moderate vs. Intermediate — What's the Difference?

Being within reasonable limits; not excessive or extreme

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

Not violent or subject to extremes; mild or calm; temperate

An intermediate thing.

Of medium or average quantity or extent.

Act as intermediary; mediate

Of limited or average quality; mediocre.

Lying or occurring between two extremes or in a middle position or state

Opposed to radical or extreme views or measures, especially in politics or religion.

One that is in a middle position or state.

One who holds or champions moderate views or opinions, especially in politics or religion.

An intermediary.

To cause to be less extreme, intense, or violent.

(Chemistry) A substance formed as a necessary stage in the manufacture of a desired end product.

To preside over

An automobile that is smaller than a full-sized model but larger than a compact.

To become less extreme, intense, or violent; abate.

To act as an intermediary; mediate.

To act as a moderator.

To intervene.

Not excessive; acting in moderation

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

More than mild, less than severe

Anything in an intermediate position.

Mediocre

An intermediary.

Average priced; standard-deal

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

Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.

(intransitive) To mediate, to be an intermediate.

Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.

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

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

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.

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.

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

(transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something)

To come between; to intervene; to interpose.

(intransitive) To become less excessive

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

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

Something that is intermediate.

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

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.

To supply with a moderator substance that decreases the speed of neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increases likelihood of fission.

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

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

Act between parties with a view to reconciling differences;

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

Lying between two extremes in time or space or degree;

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.

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

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.

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

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

To preside as a moderator.

A person who takes a position in the political center

Preside over;

Make less fast or intense;

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

Make less severe or harsh;

Make less strong or intense; soften;

Restrain or temper

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

Not extreme;

Marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes;