different between moderator vs umpire

English

Alternative forms

• moderatour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin moder?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?d???e?t?(?)/

Noun

moderator (plural moderators)

1. someone who moderates

   • Angling was […] a moderator of passions.

   1. an arbitrator or mediator
   2. the chair or president of a meeting etc.
   3. (Internet) A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.

      Synonym: mod

2. the person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church
3. (physics) a substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission
4. a device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
5. (Britain) An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
6. (Ireland) At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
7. (Britain) someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.
8. A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
9. (historical) A kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated.

Translations

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch moderator, from Latin moder?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mod??rat?r]
• Hyphenation: mo?dê?ra?tor

Noun

moderator (first-person possessive moderatorku, second-person possessive moderatormu, third-person possessive moderatornya)

1. moderator:
   1. someone who moderates: an arbitrator or mediator;
   2. someone who moderates: the chair or president of a meeting.

      Synonym: pemandu

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

Derived terms

Further reading

• “moderator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mo.de?ra?.tor/, [m?d????ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mo.de?ra.tor/, [m?d??????t??r]

Noun

moder?tor m (genitive moder?t?ris); third declension

1. manager, ruler, governor, director
2. moderator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Verb

moder?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of moder?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of moder?

Descendants

• English: moderator
• French: modérateur
• Italian: moderatore
• Portuguese: moderador
• Spanish: moderador

References

• moderator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• moderator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• moderator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• moderator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French modérateur, from Latin moderatore.

Noun

moderator n (plural moderatori)

1. moderator

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

moderator m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. moderator

English

Etymology

From a Middle English rebracketing of noumpere, from Old French nonper (“odd number, not even (as a tie-breaking arbitrator)”), from non (“not”) + per (“equal”), from Latin par (“equal”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??m.pa?.?(?)/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)

Noun

umpire (plural umpires)

1. (tennis, badminton) The official who presides over a tennis game sat on a high chair.
2. (cricket) One of the two white-coated officials who preside over a cricket match.
3. (baseball) One of usually 4 officials who preside over a baseball game.

4. (American football) The official who stands behind the line on the defensive side.

5. (Australian rules football) A match official on the ground deciding and enforcing the rules during play. As of 2007 the Australian Football League uses 3, or in the past 2 or just 1. The other officials, the goal umpires and boundary umpires, are normally not called just umpires alone.
6. (law) A person who arbitrates between contending parties.
7. (curling) The official who presides over a curling game.

Coordinate terms

• referee

Usage notes

• In general, and as a usage guideline, a referee moves around with the game, while an umpire stays (approximately) in one place.

Translations

Verb

umpire (third-person singular simple present umpires, present participle umpiring, simple past and past participle umpired)

1. (sports, intransitive) To act as an umpire in a game.

   Coordinate term: referee

2. (transitive) To decide as an umpire.

   Synonyms: arbitrate, settle

   • Judges appointed to umpire the matter in contest between them, and to decide where the right lies.

Translations

See also

• Category:English rebracketings.

Further reading

• referee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• umpire (cricket) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• umpire (baseball) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• impure, rumpie

Spanish

Noun

umpire m (plural umpires)

1. umpire