moderate vs voice

moderate

verb
  • To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise 

  • To become less excessive 

  • To reduce the excessiveness of (something) 

  • To preside over (something) as a moderator 

  • To supply with a moderator (substance that decreases the speed of neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increases likelihood of fission). 

adj
  • Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative. 

  • Average priced; standard-deal 

  • more than mild, less than severe 

  • Mediocre 

  • Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle. 

  • Not excessive; acting in moderation 

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. 

voice

verb
  • To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce 

  • To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel. 

  • To act as a voice actor to portray a character. 

  • To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of 

  • To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath. 

noun
  • Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character 

  • The tone or sound emitted by an object 

  • That which is communicated; message; meaning. 

  • Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants. 

  • An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered 

  • A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling. 

  • A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses. 

  • In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition. 

  • A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel. 

  • One who speaks; a speaker. 

  • The faculty or power of utterance 

How often have the words moderate and voice occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )