mode
1. how something is done or how it happens (Freq. 13)
- 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
• Syn:
manner, style, way, fashion
• Derivationally related forms:
stylist (for: style), stylize (for: style), mannerly (for: manner)
• Hypernyms:
property
• Hyponyms:
artistic style, idiom, drape, fit, form,
life style, life-style, lifestyle, modus vivendi, setup, touch,
signature, wise, response
2. a particular functioning condition or arrangement
- switched from keyboard to voice mode
• Hypernyms:
condition, status
3. the most frequent value of a random variable
• Syn:
modal value
• Derivationally related forms:
modal
• Topics:
statistics
• Hypernyms:
average, norm
4. a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
• Syn:
modality
• Hypernyms:
logical relation
5. verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
• Syn:
mood, modality
• Derivationally related forms:
modal (for: modality), modal
• Hypernyms:
grammatical relation
• Hyponyms:
indicative mood, indicative, declarative mood, declarative, common mood,
fact mood, subjunctive mood, subjunctive, optative mood, optative, imperative mood,
imperative, jussive mood, imperative form, interrogative mood, interrogative
6. any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
• Syn:
musical mode
• Derivationally related forms:
modal
• Hypernyms:
diatonic scale
• Hyponyms:
ecclesiastical mode, Gregorian mode, church mode, medieval mode, Greek mode,
major scale, major diatonic scale, minor scale, minor diatonic scale
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