Mode

[məʊd] or [mod]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the most frequent value of a random variable.

(noun.) any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave.

(noun.) a particular functioning condition or arrangement; 'switched from keyboard to voice mode'.

埃尔韦拉錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.

(n.) Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.

(n.) Variety; gradation; degree.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Same as Mood.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Way (viewed practically), METHOD, manner, style, process, course, means, form, fashion, custom.[2]. Modification, quality, affection, accident.

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解釋/意思:

n. manner of acting doing or existing: rule: custom: form: that which exists only as a quality of substance: a form of the verb same as mood: in lace-making a small decorative piece inserted in a pattern: the openwork between the solid parts of a pattern: a woman's mantle with a hood: (mus.) the method of dividing the octave for melodic purposes according to the position of its steps and half-steps.—adj. Mō′dal relating to mode or form without reference to substance: consisting of mode only: (logic) indicating some mode of expression.—ns. Mō′dalism the doctrine first set forth by Sabellius that the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit are not three distinct personalities but only three different modes of manifestation; Mō′dalist one who holds this theory.—adj. Modalist′ic.—n. Modal′ity mode in its logical sense: (law) the quality of being limited by a condition.—adv. Mō′dally.—Greek modes consisting each of two tetra-chords and one whole step; Gregorian Medieval or Ecclesiastical modes derived from the above by Ambrose Gregory the Great &c. each of the seven natural sounds of the diatonic scale forming the keynote or final of a mode which embraced that note and the seven above it. To each of these seven modes is attached another in which the melody while having the same final or keynote instead of ascending to the octave above ranges from the fourth below it to the fifth above. The former are called the authentic modes the latter plagal; Major mode a modern mode consisting of two steps a half-step three steps and a half-step; Minor mode a modern mode consisting of a step a half-step two steps a half-step and two steps.

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