MOD

mod, modern, modernistic

(adjective) relating to a recently developed fashion or style; “their offices are in a modern skyscraper”; “tables in modernistic designs”

mod

(noun) a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Abbreviations.

Noun

mod (countable and uncountable, plural mods)

(uncountable) An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.

(UK) A 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker.

(informal) A modification.

(video games) An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.

(Internet) A moderator, for example on a discussion forum.

(computing, informal) A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).

(rock climbing) A moderately difficult route.

(in the plural, Oxford University, informal) Moderations: university examinations generally taken in the first year.

(mathematics, programming) Abbreviation of modulus.

Synonyms: %, modulus

(statistics) Abbreviation of mode.

Usage notes

In video gaming, mods are created by end users, whereas such content by the game creators would be called an expansion pack.

Verb

mod (third-person singular simple present mods, present participle modding, simple past and past participle modded)

(transitive, informal) To modify (an object) from its original condition, typically for the purposes of individualizing and/or enhancing the performance of the object.

Synonyms: trick, trick out

(transitive, Internet, informal) To moderate; to silence or punish (a rule-breaking user) on a forum, especially when done by a moderator.

Adjective

mod (not comparable)

Abbreviation of moderate.

Etymology 2

Noun

mod (plural mods)

A festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture, akin to the Welsh eisteddfod.

Anagrams

• -dom, DOM, Dom, Dom., ODM, dom, dom.

Proper noun

MOD

(British, UK politics) Ministry of Defence.

Adjective

MOD (not comparable)

(dentistry) Initialism of mesio-occlusal-distal.

Anagrams

• -dom, DOM, Dom, Dom., ODM, dom, dom.

Proper noun

MoD

(UK, UK politics) Alternative form of MOD (“Ministry of Defence”)

Anagrams

• -dom, DOM, Dom, Dom., ODM, dom, dom.

Source: Wiktionary

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