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Mode Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Mode? [n] a manner of performance; "a manner of living"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a way of life" [n] the most frequent value of a random variable [n] any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave [n] verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker [n] a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility [n] a particular functioning condition or arrangement; "switched from keyboard to voice mode" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Mode: fashion \| manner \| modal value \| modality \| mood \| musical mode \| style \| way Related Terms \| Find terms related to Mode: Aeolian mode \| aesthetic form \| affectation \| algorithm \| approach \| archetype \| Aristotelian sorites \| art form \| attack \| authentic mode \| bearings \| bon ton \| build \| case \| cast \| categorical syllogism \| chic \| circumstance \| command of language \| complexion \| condition \| conditional \| configuration \| conformation \| convention \| course \| craze \| cry \| custom \| cut \| dilemma \| Dorian mode \| enthymeme \| estate \| exaggeration \| expression of ideas \| fad \| fashion \| feeling for words \| figuration \| figure \| fix \| footing \| form \| form of speech \| format \| formation \| frame \| furore \| genre \| Goclenian sorites \| grace of expression \| grandiloquence \| Greek modes \| guise \| haute couture \| high fashion \| Hindu mode \| hypoaeolian mode \| hypodorian mode \| hypoionian mode \| hypolocrian mode \| hypolydian mode \| hypomixolydian mode \| hypophrygian mode \| imperative \| impression \| Indian mode \| indicative \| inflation \| inner form \| jam \| jussive \| layout \| line \| line of action \| lines \| literary style \| location \| Locrian mode \| look \| lot \| Lydian mode \| major mode \| make \| makeup \| manner \| manner of speaking \| manner of working \| mannerism \| matrix \| means \| method \| methodology \| minor mode \| mixolydian mode \| MO \| modality \| mode of expression \| mode of operation \| mode of procedure \| model \| modus \| modus operandi \| modus tollens \| mold \| mood \| obligative \| octave species \| optative \| order \| paralogism \| pass \| pattern \| peculiarity \| permissive \| personal style \| Phrygian mode \| pickle \| place \| plagal mode \| Platonic form \| Platonic idea \| plight \| position \| posture \| potential \| practice \| predicament \| prevailing taste \| procedure \| proceeding \| process \| proper thing \| prosyllogism \| prototype \| pseudosyllogism \| raga \| rage \| rank \| rhetoric \| routine \| rule \| rule of deduction \| sense of language \| set \| set-up \| shape \| significant form \| situation \| SOP \| sorites \| spot \| stamp \| standard operating procedure \| standing \| state \| station \| status \| strain \| stream of fashion \| structure \| style \| stylistic analysis \| stylistics \| subjunctive \| swim \| syllogism \| system \| tack \| technique \| tenor \| the drill \| the grand style \| the how \| the plain style \| the sublime \| the way of \| tone \| trend \| trick \| turn \| type \| vein \| vogue \| way \| wise See Also \| artistic style \| average \| church mode \| common mood \| condition \| declarative \| declarative mood \| diatonic scale \| ecclesiastical mode \| fact mood \| fit \| form \| grammatical relation \| Greek mode \| Gregorian mode \| idiom \| imperative \| imperative mood \| indicative \| indicative mood \| interrogative \| interrogative mood \| jussive mood \| life style \| lifestyle \| life-style \| logical relation \| major diatonic scale \| major scale \| medieval mode \| method \| minor diatonic scale \| minor scale \| modus vivendi \| norm \| optative \| optative mood \| property \| setup \| signature \| status \| subjunctive \| subjunctive mood \| touch \| wise Mode In Webster's Dictionary \Mode\, n. [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.) 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) 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.) Same as {Mood}. 7. (Mus.) 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}.

Mode Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mode?

[n] a manner of performance; "a manner of living"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a way of life"
[n] the most frequent value of a random variable
[n] any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
[n] verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
[n] a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
[n] a particular functioning condition or arrangement; "switched from keyboard to voice mode"

Mode In Webster's Dictionary

\Mode\, n. [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.) 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) 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.) Same as {Mood}.

7. (Mus.) 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}.

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