1. (n.)mode a manner of acting or doing; method; way: modes of transportation.
2. mode a particulartype 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 wholesteps and half steps; scale.
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"
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
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 ancientGreekmusic
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 crashmode now”. One
might also hear a request to “disable flame mode,
please”.
In a usagemuchcloser to techspeak, a mode is a specialstate that
certain user interfaces mustpass into in order to perform certain
functions. For example, in order to insert characters into a document in
the Unixeditorvi, one musttype 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 mustthen 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 enlightenedtimes.
Definitions of mode 
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
