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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Mode \Mode\ (m[=o]d), 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.
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.
Note: In modern music, only the major and the minor mode, of whatever key, are recognized.
8. A kind of silk. See {Alamode}, noun
9. (Gram.) the value of the variable in a frequency distribution or probability distribution, at which the probability or frequency has a maximum. The maximum may be local or global. Distributions with only one such maximum are called {unimodal}; with two maxima, {bimodal}, and with more than two, {multimodal}. [PJC]
Syn: Method; manner. See {Method}.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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" [syn: {manner}, {mode}, {style}, {way}, {fashion}]
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 [syn: {modality}, {mode}]
4: verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker [syn: {mood}, {mode}, {modality}]
5: any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave [syn: {mode}, {musical mode}]
6: the most frequent value of a random variable [syn: {mode}, {modal value}]
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