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Webster 1913 Edition


Mode

Mode

(mōd)
,
Noun.
[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.
☞ In modern music, only the major and the minor mode, of whatever key, are recognized.
8.
A kind of silk. See
Alamode
,
Noun.
Syn. – Method; manner. See
Method
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Mode

MODE

,
Noun.
[L. modus, metior. The primary sense of mode is measure hence form. Measure is from extending, the extent, hence a limit, and hence the derivative sense of restraining. See Meet and Measure.]
1.
Manner of existing or being; manner; method; form; fashion; custom; way; as the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing; modes of receiving or entertaining company.
The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of doing it may be easily found.
It is applicable to particular acts, or to a series of acts, or to the common usage of a city of nation. One man has a particular mode of walking; another has a singular mode of dressing his hair. We find it necessary to conform in some measure to the usual modes of dress.
2.
Gradation; degree.
What modes of sight between each wide extreme!
3.
State; quality.
4.
In metaphysics, the dependence or affection of a substance. Such complex ideas as contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies or affections of substances, Locke calls modes. Of these he makes two kinds; simple modes, which are only variations or different combinations of the same idea, as a dozen, which consists of so many units added together; and mixed modes, which are compounded of simple ideas of several kinds, as beauty, which is compounded of color and figure.
A mode is that which cannot subsist in and of itself, but is esteemed as belonging to and subsisting by the help of some substance, which for that reason is called its subject.
5.
In music, a regular disposition of the air and accompaniments relative to certain principal sounds, on which a piece of music is formed, and which are called the essential sounds of the mode.
6.
In grammar, a particular manner of conjugating verbs to express manner of action or being, as affirmation, command, condition and the like; usually and not very properly written mood. Mood is a word of different signification. [See Mood.]
7.
A kind of silk.

Definition 2024


Mode

Mode

See also: mode and møde

German

Noun

Mode f (genitive Mode, plural Moden)

  1. fashion, trend

mode

mode

See also: Mode and møde

English

Noun

mode (plural modes)

  1. (music) One of several ancient scales, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale
  2. A particular means of accomplishing something.
    What was the mode of entry?
    • 1855, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society (volume 9, page 205)
      An effectual and inexpensive mode of Protecting Wall-Trees from Spring-Frosts.
  3. (statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution
  4. (mathematics, physics) A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
  5. (computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data.
    In insert mode, characters typed are directly inserted into the buffer
  6. (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
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Etymology 2

From French mode.

Noun

mode (plural modes)

  1. Style or fashion.
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Catalan

Noun

mode m (plural modes)

  1. modus
  2. way
  3. (grammar) mood

Danish

Etymology

From French mode, from Latin modus (manner, method).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moːdə/, [ˈmoːðə]

Noun

mode c (singular definite moden, plural indefinite moder)

  1. fashion

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: mo‧de

Etymology

From French mode.

Noun

mode f (plural modes, diminutive modetje n)

  1. fashion, trend
    Het staat je vrij om de mode te volgen in België en Nederland You're free to follow fashion in Belgium and Holland.

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French

Etymology

From Latin modus

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔd/

Noun

mode f (plural modes)

  1. fashion, trend
    Il faut suivre la mode en France You've got to follow fashion in France

Derived terms

Noun

mode m (plural modes)

  1. method, means, way, mode
    Quel mode de transport est-ce que tu utilises? What method of transport do you use?
    mode de paiement method of payment
  2. (grammar) mode, mood

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Italian

Noun

mode f

  1. plural of moda

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Latin

Noun

mode

  1. vocative singular of modus

Norman

Noun

mode f (plural modes)

  1. (Jersey) fashion

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Adjective

mode

  1. neuter singular of moden

Swedish

Etymology

From French

Pronunciation

Noun

mode n

  1. fashion, a fashion trend

Declension

Inflection of mode 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mode modet moden modena
Genitive modes modets modens modenas

Related terms

  • höstmode
  • modelejon
  • modetidning
  • vårmode

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