Mode
[məʊd] or [mod]
Definition
(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'.
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Definition
(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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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Way (viewed practically), METHOD, manner, style, process, course, means, form, fashion, custom.[2]. Modification, quality, affection, accident.
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Definition
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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Examples
- Her perpetual study was to relieve us from labour and to spread ease and even elegance over our altered mode of life. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In the first place, I say boldly that nothing can be worse than the present mode of study. Plato. The Republic.
- It seemed to Fred that if Mr. Farebrother had had a beak and talons instead of his very capable tongue, his mode of attack could hardly be more cruel. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There is another possible mode of transition, namely, through the acceleration or retardation of the period of reproduction. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Adverting to other advantages derived from railway locomotion, Mr. Stephenson noticed the comparative safety of that mode of travelling. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I do not mean the genuine article, but all men are slaves more or less, if they don't follow my mode of life. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- When Miss Brooke was at the tea-table, Sir James came to sit down by her, not having felt her mode of answering him at all offensive. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The lithographic press somewhat resembles in form an iron printing press, but differs from it greatly in its mode of action. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- They are divided into classes by names indicating their purpose and mode of operation, such as single, double-acting, lift or force, reciprocating or rotary, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Go home, or stay; pray to your God in your own mode; your friends may do the like. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Some leases prescribe to the tenant a certain mode of cultivation, and a certain succession of crops, during the whole continuance of the lease. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Such a mode of practice is of necessity happy-go-lucky; success depends upon chance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Campanella looks forward to a new mode of education, which is to be a study of nature, and not of Aristotle. Plato. The Republic.
- He says: The mode of getting in the harvest varies considerably. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This mode of drilling also effected a revolution in the art of blasting. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- That this cannot take place in modes, is evident from considering their mature. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Comparatively speaking, such modes of influence may be regarded as personal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Many of the foreigners were utterly destitute; and their increasing numbers at length forbade a recourse to the usual modes of relief. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He was giving Harriet information as to modes of agriculture, etc. Jane Austen. Emma.
- And the experience of each party loses in meaning, when the free interchange of varying modes of life-experience is arrested. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The idea of a dance is an instance of the first kind of modes; that of beauty of the second. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But the explanation is that their modes of life did not call for attention to such facts, but held their minds riveted to other things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- While most of us think of burning as a process in which flames and smoke occur, there are in reality many modes of burning accompanied by neither flame nor smoke. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- No mode of behavior more imperiously demands knowledge of established modes of diagnosis and treatment than does his. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The first two modes of payment are intelligible enough, but what the penalty is I do not understand, or how a penalty can be a payment. Plato. The Republic.
- Social relationships and modes of organized action are reduced to their lowest terms. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As the other metals, gold, silver, copper and lead often occur together, and in the same deposits with iron, the same general modes of treatment to extract them are often applied. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The operation of lithotrity, for removing stone from the bladder by crushing the stone, was introduced by Civiale, 1817-1824, who devised successful instruments and modes of using them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In their modes of expressing thought, these two generals contrasted quite as strongly as in their other characteristics. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The difference between them is not the difference between growth and no growth, but between the modes of growth appropriate to different conditions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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