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Definition of 'Mode'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) mode
a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
modes of transportation.

2.  mode
a particular type or form of something:
Heat is a mode of motion.

3.  mode
a designated condition or status, as for performing a task or responding to a problem:
a machine in the automatic mode.

4.  mode
Philos.

5.  mode
appearance, form, or disposition taken by a thing, or by one of its essential properties or attributes.

6.  mode
any of the forms of categorical syllogisms according to the quantity and quality of their constituent propositions.

7.  mode
any of various arrangements of the diatonic tones of an octave, differing from one another in the order of the whole steps and half steps; scale.

8.  mode
Statistics. the value of the variate at which a maximum occurs in the frequency distribution of the variate.

9.  mode
the actual mineral composition of a rock, expressed in percentages by weight.

10. (n.) mode
fashion or style in manners, dress, etc.

11.  mode
a light gray or drab color.

Etymology: (1635–45; < F < L modus; see mode¹)

Definition of 'Mode'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) manner, mode, style, way, fashion
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"

2. (noun) mode
a particular functioning condition or arrangement
"switched from keyboard to voice mode"

3. (noun) modality, mode
a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility

4. (noun) mood, mode, modality
verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

5. (noun) mode, musical mode
any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave

6. (noun) mode, modal value
the most frequent value of a random variable

Definition of 'Mode'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Mode
manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing

2. (noun) Mode
prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode

3. (noun) Mode
variety; gradation; degree

4. (noun) Mode
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

5. (noun) Mode
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. (noun) Mode
same as Mood

7. (noun) Mode
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

8. (noun) Mode
a kind of silk. See Alamode, n

Definitions of 'Mode'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. Mode
[common] A general state, usually used with an adjective describing the state. Use of the word ‘mode’ rather than ‘state’ implies that the state is extended over time, and probably also that some activity characteristic of that state is being carried out. “No time to hack; I'm in thesis mode.” In its jargon sense, ‘mode’ is most often attributed to people, though it is sometimes applied to programs and inanimate objects. In particular, see hack mode, day mode, night mode, demo mode, fireworks mode, and yoyo mode; also talk mode.

One also often hears the verbs enable and disable used in connection with jargon modes. Thus, for example, a sillier way of saying “I'm going to crash” is “I'm going to enable crash mode now”. One might also hear a request to “disable flame mode, please”.

In a usage much closer to techspeak, a mode is a special state that certain user interfaces must pass into in order to perform certain functions. For example, in order to insert characters into a document in the Unix editor vi, one must type the “i” key, which invokes the “Insert” command. The effect of this command is to put vi into “insert mode”, in which typing the “i” key has a quite different effect (to wit, it inserts an “i” into the document). One must then hit another special key, “ESC”, in order to leave “insert mode”. Nowadays, modeful interfaces are generally considered losing but survive in quite a few widely used tools built in less enlightened times.

Translation of 'Mode'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a manner of doing something an unusual mode of expression.
Afrikaans: soort, tipe	Arabic: طَريقَه، شَكْل، أسْلوب	Bulgarian: маниер
Brazilian: maneira	Czech: způsob	German: die Art und Weise
Danish: måde	Greek: τρόπος	Spanish: modo
Estonian: laad	Farsi: طریقه	Finnish: tapa
French: mode, manière	Hebrew: אוֹפֶן	Hindi: तरीका
Croatian: običaj	Hungarian: mód	Indonesian: cara
Icelandic: háttur, máti	Italian: modo, maniera	Japanese: 様式
Korean: 방법, 방식	Lithuanian: būdas	Latvian: veids
Malay: cara	Dutch: manier	Norwegian: måte; art
Polish: tryb, sposób	Persian: طریقه	Pashto: كړن لاره
Portuguese: maneira	Romanian: mod, manieră	Russian: способ
Slovak: spôsob	Slovenian: način	Serbian: način
Swedish: sätt	Thai: วิธีการ	Turkish: tarz, usul
Taiwanese: 方式，風格	Ukrainian: метод, спосіб	Urdu: طریق عمل، انداز
Vietnamese: cách thức	Chinese: 方式，风格
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