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mode

UK/məʊd/ US/moʊd/ fairly common

noun

1.

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”
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2.

a particular functioning condition or arrangement

  • “switched from keyboard to voice mode”
3.

a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility

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4.

verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

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5.

any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave

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6.

the most frequent value of a random variable

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Origin

From Old French mode (masculine), from Latin modus (“measure, due measure, rhythm, melody”). Doublet of modus.

Phrases

  • aeroplane mode
  • almost standards mode
  • asynchronous transfer mode
  • attract mode
  • beast mode
  • big real mode
  • collective mode
  • conjunctive mode

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