Moderate

Definition

moderate /'mɒdǝrǝt / adj ၁။ အတန္အသင့္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ အလြန္အကြၽံ မဟုတ္ေသာ။ moderate price increases ❍ travelling at a moderate speed ❍ a moderate-sized bathroom ❍ a moderate breeze (ie a wind of medium strength). ၂။ မျပင္းထန္ေသာ။ အစြန္းမေရာက္ေသာ။ a man with moderate views ❍ moderate policies. ၃။ အသင့္အတင့္၊ အတန္ အသင့္ (ျဖစ္ေသာ)။ a moderate drinker ❍ moderate wage demands. n (ႏိုင္ငံေရးအရ) အစြန္းမေရာက္သူ။ /'mɒdǝreÇt / v ေလ်ာ့သည္။ ေလ်ာ့ေစသည္။ အလြန္အကြၽံ မျဖစ္ေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ exercise a moderating influence on sb ❍ He must learn to moderate his temper. ❍ The wind has moderated. ❏ moderately adv အတန္အသင့္။ အသင့္အတင့္။ အေတာ္ အတန္။ a moderately good performance. ❍ He enjoyed the work and was moderately good at it. ❍ She only did moderately well in the exam.

Examples

1. Cook the spinach over a moderate heat.
2. [moderate increase/loss/growth] : This month has seen a moderate increase in house prices.
3. She was on the moderate wing of the party.
4. The tone of his speech was quite moderate.
5. A moderate drinker (=of alcohol)