Толковый словарь английского языка - moderate
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I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin moderatus, from past participle of moderare to ~; akin to Latin modus measure Date: 15th century 1. avoiding extremes of behavior or expression ; observing reasonable limits , calm , temperate , 2. tending toward the mean or average amount or dimension, having average or less than average quality ; mediocre , professing or characterized by political or social beliefs that are not extreme, limited in scope or effect, not expensive ; reasonable or low in price, of medium lightness and medium chroma, ~ly adverb ~ness noun II. verb (-ated; -ating) Date: 15th century transitive verb to lessen the intensity or extremeness of , to preside over or act as chairman of, intransitive verb to act as a moderator, to become less violent, severe, or intense , moderation noun III. noun Date: 1794 one who holds ~ views or who belongs to a group favoring a ~ course or program
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adj., n., & v. --adj. 1 avoiding extremes; temperate in conduct or expression. 2 fairly or tolerably large or good. 3 (of the wind) of medium strength. 4 (of prices) fairly low. --n. a person who holds moderate views, esp. in politics. --v. 1 tr. & intr. make or become less violent, intense, rigorous, etc. 2 tr. (also absol.) act as a moderator of or to. 3 tr. Physics retard (neutrons) with a moderator. Derivatives moderately adv. moderateness n. moderatism n. Etymology: ME f. L moderatus past part. of moderare reduce, control: rel. to MODEST ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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