mode
Style or fashion; popular trend.
Noun entertainment, lifestyle
- One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.
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(music, in particular) One of several ancient Greek scales.
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- A particular means of accomplishing something.
- What was the mode of entry?
- An effectual and inexpensive mode of Protecting Wall-Trees from Spring-Frosts. - 1855, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, volume 9, page 205:
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(mathematics, physics) A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
(especially engineering) A state related to signals or vibrations.
- common-mode
- differential-mode
- normal mode of vibration
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(mathematics, physics) A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
(electromagnetism) A wave pattern in the electromagnetic field.
- longitudinal mode
- transverse mode
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(computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours.
- In insert mode, characters typed are directly inserted into the buffer.
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(electronics) A series of settings on a device used for a specific purpose.
- airplane mode; night mode
- The car was then placed into its Level 2 driving mode, much like you would for the current adaptive cruise control systems. - 2024 May 4, Mat Gallagher, “I tried Mercedes’ new autonomous driving in busy city streets –...
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(video games) A variation in gameplay, such as a difficulty level.
- Campaign mode (the career mode that includes the notorious Gran Turismo driving school) is off limits while offline. Also unavailable offline: buying new cars, viewing your garage, editing car liveries, and even the...
- I've stumbled over gaming's simplest hurdles, been humiliated by the lowliest of enemies and will often go for an easy mode if one's available, and yet I've run through Bloodborne twice without ever really breaking much...
- Selfie modes, meanwhile, let you add filters and change characters’ facial expressions, from Link in The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker to Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2. - 2019 February 25, Jordan Erica Webber,...
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(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.
Synonyms: mood grammatical mood
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(philosophy) That which exists only as a quality of substance.
- A particular state of being, or frame of mind.
- After a series of early setbacks, her political campaign is in crisis mode.
- After being stabbed, he went into survival mode until he got to the hospital.
- The most frequently occurring value in a distribution.
Hypernyms: average
- In lace-making, a small decorative piece inserted into a pattern.
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(textiles) The openwork between the solid parts of a pattern.
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(obsolete) A woman's mantle with a hood.
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Origin
From Old French mode (masculine), from Latin modus (“measure, due measure, rhythm, melody”). Doublet of modus.
Forms
Related
modal modality model modeler moderate moderation moderator modern module mood
Derived
aeroplane mode almost standards mode altmode antimode asynchronous transfer mode attract mode bearmode beast mode big real mode bi-mode bimode B-mode boymode collective mode conjunctive mode cooked mode dark mode debug mode default mode network dual mode dual-mode eigenmode flat real mode flight mode
Noun Entry 2
- Style or fashion; popular trend.
- Her wardrobe is always in mode.
- The dress she wore was no longer a cheap blue serge but a handsome tricolette, richly trimmed according to the prevailing mode. - 1922, Edith Van Dyne, chapter 4, in Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman:
Origin
From French mode f (“fashion, trend”).