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mode

[ mohd ]

/ moʊd /

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noun

a manner of acting or doing; method; way: modern modes of transportation.

a particular type or form of something: Heat is a mode of motion.

a designated condition or status, as for performing a task or responding to a problem: a machine in the automatic mode.

Philosophy.

appearance, form, or disposition taken by a thing, or by one of its essential properties or attributes.
(in the philosophy of Spinoza) one of the nonessential qualifications of God, contingent upon other modes.Compare attribute (def. 9).

Logic.

Music. any of various arrangements of the diatonic tones of an octave, differing from one another in the order of the whole steps and half steps; a type or variation of a scale.

Grammar. mood² (def. 1).

Statistics. the value of the variate at which a relative or absolute maximum occurs in the frequency distribution of the variate.

Petrography. the actual mineral composition of a rock, expressed in percentages by weight.

Physics. any of the distinct patterns of oscillation that a given periodically varying system can have.

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Origin of mode

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English mod(e), from Old French or directly from Latin modus “measured amount, limit, manner, kind, tone”

synonym study for mode

1. See method.

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH mode

1. mode , module2. mode , mood

Words nearby mode

modal auxiliary, modality, modal logic, mod cons, modding, mode, model, modeling, modelist, modelling, Model T

Definition for mode (2 of 2)

mode²

[ mohd ]

/ moʊd /

noun

fashion or style in manners, dress, etc.: He was much concerned to keep up with the latest mode.

a light gray or drab color.

adjective

See à la mode.

Origin of mode

First recorded in 1635–45; from French, from Latin modus; see origin at mode¹

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020

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I cried for about an hour when we officially decided to change the date, but then I went into re-planning mode and felt a sense of relief.
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Oakland, California-based Mighty Buildings came out of stealth mode, to the tune of $30 million in venture capital funding.
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Hearing your angry words, aggressive tone, and raised voice, and seeing your furrowed brow, the onboard computer goes into “soothe” mode, as it’s been programmed to do when it detects that you’re angry.
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An example of this is comparing data from your various modes of advertising.
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If Hugh Jackman is totally heterosexual, his mode is a confusing—and not in a good, rad way—butch-camp.
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Why did it feel important to you to have Rick shift into this mode where he can readily access his brutality?
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Belfort, not knowing they were time-release ludes, pops loads of them, and when they kick in, he enters “cerebral palsy” mode.
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It was through these explorations that he began capturing himself, just not in “selfie” mode.
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After completing the campaign, an “Extinction” mode opens up.
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It will not be easy to imagine any third mode materially different, which could rationally be proposed.
The Federalist Papers|Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
But it is precisely here that the peculiarity of St. John's mode of thought comes in.
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The mode in which he escaped will show you his perfect self-possession.
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But his mode of living was by no means puritanical, and Haddon was kept up in its traditional lavish style.
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One mode of persuasion their ingenuity has suggested, which it may, perhaps, be less easy to resist.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6|Samuel Johnson

British Dictionary definitions for mode

mode

/ (məʊd) /

noun

a manner or way of doing, acting, or existing

the current fashion or style

music

any of the various scales of notes within one octave, esp any of the twelve natural diatonic scales taken in ascending order used in plainsong, folk song, and art music until 1600
(in the music of classical Greece) any of the descending diatonic scales from which the liturgical modes evolved
either of the two main scale systems in music since 1600major mode; minor mode

logic linguistics another name for modality (def. 3), mood 2 (def. 2)

philosophy a complex combination of ideas the realization of which is not determined by the component ideas

that one of a range of values that has the highest frequency as determined statisticallyCompare mean 3 (def. 4), median (def. 6)

the quantitative mineral composition of an igneous rock

physics one of the possible configurations of a travelling or stationary wave

physics one of the fundamental vibrations

Word Origin for mode

C14: from Latin modus measure, manner

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Medical definitions for mode

mode

[ mōd ]

n.

The value or item occurring most frequently in a series of observations or statistical data.

The number or range of numbers in a mathematical set that occurs the most frequently.

Scientific definitions for mode

mode

[ mōd ]

The value that occurs most frequently in a data set. For example, in the set 125, 140, 172, 164, 140, 110, the mode is 140. Compare arithmetic mean average median.

Cultural definitions for mode

mode

In statistics, the most frequently appearing value in a set of numbers or data points. In the numbers 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 4, 9, 6, 8, and 6, the mode is 6, because it appears more often than any of the other figures. (See average; compare mean and median.)

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