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manner, mode, style, way, fashion
(noun) how something is done or how it happens; “her dignified manner”; “his rapid manner of talking”; “their nomadic mode of existence”; “in the characteristic New York style”; “a lonely way of life”; “in an abrasive fashion”
mode, modal value
(noun) the most frequent value of a random variable
mode, musical mode
(noun) any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
mood, mode, modality
(noun) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
modality, mode
(noun) a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
mode
(noun) a particular functioning condition or arrangement; “switched from keyboard to voice mode”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
mode (plural modes)
(music) One of several ancient Greek scales.
(music) One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.
A particular means of accomplishing something.
A particular state of being, or frame of mind.
(statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution
(mathematics, physics) A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
(computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours.
Hyponyms: emulation mode, immediate mode, local emulation mode, protected mode, real mode, retained mode, strict mode
(electronics) A series of settings on a device used for a specific purpose.
(video games) A variation in gameplay, such as a difficulty level.
(grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
Synonyms: mood, grammatical mood
Hyponyms: imperative mode, indicative mode, infinitive mode, subjunctive mode
(philosophy) That which exists only as a quality of substance.
(textiles) In lace-making, a small decorative piece inserted into a pattern.
(textiles) The openwork between the solid parts of a pattern.
(obsolete) A woman's mantle with a hood.
mode (plural modes)
Style or fashion; popular trend.
• E.D. Mo., Edom, Medo-, demo, demo-, dome
Source: Wiktionary
Mode, n. Etym: [L. modus a measure, due or proper measure, bound, manner, form; akin to E. mete: cf. F. mode. See Mete, and cf. Commodious, Mood in grammar, Modus.]
1. Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing. The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of doing it may easily be found. Jer. Taylor. A table richly spread in regal mode. Milton.
2. Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode. The easy, apathetic graces of a man of the mode. Macaulay.
3. Variety; gradation; degree. Pope.
4. (Metaph.)
Definition: Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter. Modes I call such complex ideas, which, however compounded, contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies on, or affections of, substances. Locke.
5. (Logic)
Definition: The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood.
6. (Gram.)
Definition: Same as Mood.
7. (Mus.)
Definition: The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music.
Note: In modern music, only the major and the minor mode, of whatever key, are recognized.
8. A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.
Syn.
– Method; manner. See Method.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
According to WorldAtlas, Finland is the biggest coffee consumer in the entire world. The average Finn will consume 12 kg of coffee each year.