heat vs moderate

verb

To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
To arouse, to excite (sexually).
To become hotter.
To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").

noun

A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus.
A hot spell.
The output of a heating system.
An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
The condition or quality of being hot.
Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
A fastball.
An undesirable amount of attention.
A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
One or more firearms.
Thermal energy.
The police.

verb

To reduce the excessiveness of (something)
To become less excessive
To preside over (something) as a moderator
To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise
To supply with a moderator (substance that decreases the speed of neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increases likelihood of fission).

adj

noun

One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
One of a party in Scottish Church history dominant in the 18th century, lax in doctrine and discipline, but intolerant of evangelicalism and popular rights. It caused the secessions of 1733 and 1761, and its final resultant was the Disruption of 1843.