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Mode   /moʊd/   Listen
Mode

noun
1.
How something is done or how it happens.  Synonyms: fashion, manner, style, way.  "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"
2.
A particular functioning condition or arrangement.
3.
A classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility.  Synonym: modality.
4.
Verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker.  Synonyms: modality, mood.
5.
Any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave.  Synonym: musical mode.
6.
The most frequent value of a random variable.  Synonym: modal value.



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"Mode" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Horse Fair" and other similar pictures, which have brought her much into the company of men, she has found it wise to dress in male costume. A laughable incident is related of this mode of dress. One day when she returned from the country, she found a messenger awaiting to announce to her the sudden illness of one of her young friends. Rosa did not wait to change her male attire, but hastened to the bedside of ...
— Lives of Girls Who Became Famous • Sarah Knowles Bolton
... was unknown to me—a narrow, foxy face it was—and the man's perfect self-assurance had something offensive in it, as all shams have. I did not care for his manner towards Isabella—which is, however, as I understand, quite a la mode d'aujourd'hui—a sort of careless, patronising admiration, with no touch ...
— Dross • Henry Seton Merriman
... of this mode of knowing in the instinctive and divinatory faculties of animals; in the spontaneous talent of certain men born mathematicians and artists, independent of all education; finally, in most of the primitive human institutions and monuments, ...
— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon
... upon private life is intensified by the mode in which self-government works in practice and encroaches more sharply than before on the rural parishes. Formerly the provincial president, who stood in as close relations with the people as with the State, formed the lowest step in the ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke
... perfidious of his race, Corrupt in life, and void of grace, The menial of the Papacy; And yet content by oath to free Himself from Holy See's control, And covenant to save his soul By the Scotch Presbyterian mode, As to the crown this paved the road. But Cromwell brooked not this control; He wished man free to save his soul As conscience may to him dictate, Without subservience to the State. He saw also thro' the disguise Of one well versed in fraud and lies, And saw how England's liberties ...
— Gleams of Sunshine - Optimistic Poems • Joseph Horatio Chant


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