What's the difference between moderator and speed?

Moderator


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies.
  • (n.) The officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the votes.
  • (n.) In the University of Oxford, an examiner for moderations; at Cambridge, the superintendant of examinations for degrees; at Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
  • (n.) A mechamical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.

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.

Speed


Definition:

  • (n.) Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.
  • (n.) The act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success.
  • (n.) To go; to fare.
  • (n.) To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare.
  • (n.) To fare well; to have success; to prosper.
  • (n.) To make haste; to move with celerity.
  • (n.) To be expedient.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor.
  • (v. t.) To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
  • (v. t.) To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
  • (v. t.) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo.
  • (v. t.) To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
  • (2) The samples are first disrupted by sonication and the insoluble proteins concentrated by high-speed centrifugation.
  • (3) The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental frequency distribution, the standard deviation of the rate of change of the voice fundamental frequency and the average speed of voice change were found to correlate to the clinical state of the patient.
  • (4) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
  • (5) "Speed is not the main reason for building the new railway.
  • (6) step lengths, stride times, double-support times, cadence and walking speed.
  • (7) Fog and base levels of E-speed film were greater than those of D-speed film.
  • (8) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
  • (9) While the correlations between speed and accuracy reversed over time, the abnormal vision group began and ended at the most extreme levels, having undergone a significantly more radical shift in this regard.
  • (10) The speed of visiting holes and the development of a preferred pattern of hole-visits did not influence spatial discrimination performance.
  • (11) 18 patients with typical sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) were investigated by the Motor Accuracy and Speed Test (MAST) and 18 healthy age- and-sex-matched volunteers, acted as controls.
  • (12) On the other hand conclusions seem to be possible on growth speed of neoplasia.
  • (13) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
  • (14) The model can account for speed changes in locomotion with a relatively smooth change of system parameters.
  • (15) The speed of conduction over the spinal cord did not reach adult values until the 5th year.
  • (16) The physical parameters measured are the intensity attenuation and absorption coefficients, the ultrasonic speed, the thermal conductivity, specific-heat capacity and the mass density.
  • (17) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
  • (18) Species differed with respect to speed of habituation but not with respect to sensitivity towards stimulus change.
  • (19) He speeded the process of decolonisation, and was the first British prime minister to appreciate that Britain's future lay with Europe.
  • (20) A two-lane, 400m bridge – funded by Jica, Japan's aid agency – coupled with simplified procedures agreed by Zambia and Zimbabwe have speeded up processing time.