What's the difference between moderate and temperance?

Moderate


Definition:

  • (a.) Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained
  • (a.) Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table.
  • (a.) Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors.
  • (a.) Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist.
  • (a.) Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter.
  • (a.) Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed.
  • (a.) Limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities.
  • (a.) Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting; as, to moderate a synod.
  • (v. i.) To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.
  • (v. i.) To preside as a moderator.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The newborn with critical AS typically presents with severe cardiac failure and the infant with moderate failure, whereas children may be asymptomatic.
  • (2) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
  • (3) In the surface epithelial cells, the basolateral cell surface showed moderate enzymatic activity.
  • (4) Histological studies showed that the resulting pancreatitis was usually mild to moderate, being severe only in association with sepsis.
  • (5) Systemic corticosteroids (i.e., prednisone, prednisolone or methylprednisolone) have improved the survival rate of patients with moderate and severe ulcerative colitis.
  • (6) We report the results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of acitretin (Soriatane) in 15 patients with moderate to severe psoriasis.
  • (7) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
  • (8) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
  • (9) Mild swallowing difficulties occurred in 18 patients (39%), moderate dysfunction in 23 (50%), and severe dysfunction in five (11%).
  • (10) The radius is estimated to be around 1.7 nm, which shows a moderate degree of hydration.
  • (11) The deep cerebellar nuclei were moderately labeled at birth and gradually decreased in density thereafter.
  • (12) The epithelium of Brunner's gland stained intensely with Ricinus communis agglutinin-I (RCA-I), succinylated-WGA (S-WGA) and wheat-germ agglutinin (WGA), moderately with Bandeirea simplicifolia agglutinin-I (BS-I), Concanavalia ensiformis agglutinin (Con A) peanut agglutinin (PNA) and Ulex europaeus agglutinin-I (UEA-I) and occasionally with Dolichos biflorus agglutinin (DBA), Lens culinaris agglutinin (LCA) and soybean agglutinin (SBA).
  • (13) 2-(4'-Isobutylphenyl)propionic acid, ibuprofen, is an antiinflammatory agent which possesses moderate platelet aggregation inhibitory activity.
  • (14) Electroretinographic (ERG), morphometric and biochemical studies on retinas from monkeys or rats reveal that moderate level developmental lead (Pb) exposure produces long-term selective rod deficits and degeneration.
  • (15) The remaining 33 sera (13.3 per cent) were classified as low, moderate or strong positives.
  • (16) The agriculture ministry raised the risk level of the virus spreading from moderate to high on Tuesday across the country, at a crucial time for the industry.
  • (17) The role of blood acetylcholinesterase in moderating the effects of organophosphate challenge in rats was tested.
  • (18) C. tropicalis was grown in a medium containing Brij 35, resulting in the induction of a moderate number of medium-sized peroxisomes.
  • (19) Data from 579 medical students from the classes of 1979-80 through 1983-84 attending a midwestern medical college were analyzed via moderated multiple regression.
  • (20) Altering the time of PMA exposure demonstrated that PMA inhibited chondrocyte phenotypic expression, rather than cell commitment: early (0-48 h) exposure to PMA (during chondrocytic commitment in vitro) had little inhibitory effect on the staining index, whereas, exposure from 49-96 h (presumably post-commitment) and 0-96 h had moderate and strong inhibitory effects, respectively, on cartilage synthesis.

Temperance


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.
  • (v. t.) Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness.
  • (v. t.) State with regard to heat or cold; temperature.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (2) No definite relationship could be established between the biochemical reactions and the flagellar antigens of the lysogenic strain and its temperate phage though some temperate phages released by E. coli O119:B14 strains with certain flagellar antigens did give specific lytic patterns and were serologically identical.
  • (3) It begins with the origins of treatment in the self-help temperance movement of the 1830s and 1840s and the founding of the first inebriate homes, tracing in the United States the transformation of these small, private, spiritually inclined programs into the medically dominated, quasipublic inebriate asylums of the late 19th century.
  • (4) A temperate phage was induced from exponential phase cells of Erwinia herbicola Y46 by treatment with mitomycin C. The phage was purified by single plaque isolation, and produced in bulk by successive cultivation in young cultures of E. herbicola Y 178.
  • (5) A truncated form of the HBL murein hydrolase, encoded by the temperate bacteriophage HB-3, was cloned in a pUC-derivative and translated in Escherichia coli using AUC as start codon, as confirmed by biochemical, immunological, and N-terminal analyses.
  • (6) Group II (21%) included virulent and temperate phages with small isometric heads.
  • (7) Diagnostic methods which reveal only the presence or absence of Ostertagia in grazing animals are of little importance since all will acquire some degree of infection when grazed in the temperate regions of the world.
  • (8) Recently, methods have been developed to distinguish between human and animal faecal pollution in temperate climates.
  • (9) The recent enthusiasm for the combined Collis-Belsey operation should be tempered by continued, cautious, objective assessment of its long-term results.
  • (10) These differences in susceptibility are due, in part, to immunity imposed by temperate phages carried by the different strains.
  • (11) Therefore, production of turimycin is not controlled by the isolated temperate phage.
  • (12) On at least three independent occasions a 1.6 kb segment of Streptomyces coelicolor DNA was detected in apparently the same location in an attP-deleted derivative of the temperate phage phiC31 that carried a selectable viomycin resistance gene.
  • (13) These results indicated that gender tempers the effect of family type on adolescent adjustment.
  • (14) However, its use must be tempered with an appreciation of the limitations of the new technique and knowledge of the circumstances in which it may yield erroneous results.
  • (15) The infection of Bacillus thuringiensis, B. cereus, B. mesentericus and B. polymyxa strains with temperate E. coli bacteriophage Mu cts62 integrated into plasmid RP4 under conditions of conjugative transfer is shown possible.
  • (16) As newer techniques are developed, it is mandatory that the application of these techniques be tempered with controlled clinical trials, documenting their effectiveness.
  • (17) Such lesions are quite common in subtropical and tropical climates, and a review of the literature indicates that the incidence of this formerly rare entity is increasing in temperate climates.
  • (18) Calculated values of residual compressive stress for tempered specimens were considerably higher than those for specimens that were slowly cooled and those that were cooled by free convection.
  • (19) Three sedentary men underwent a 3-mo period of endurance training in a temperate climate, (dry bulb temperature (Tdb): 18 degrees C) and had their sweating sensitivity measured before and after the training period.
  • (20) This level of susceptibility is higher than that found in most temperate countries and mainland populations, and similar to descriptions in a few island and rural populations in the tropics.