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Definitions for: Mode
[n] a manner of performance; "a manner of living"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a way of life"
[n] the most frequent value of a random variable
[n] any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
[n] verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
[n] a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
[n] a particular functioning condition or arrangement; "switched from keyboard to voice mode"
Webster (1913) Definition: Mode, n. [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.
6. (Gram.) Same as 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, n.
Syn: Method; manner. See Method.
Synonyms: fashion, manner, modal value, modality, mood, musical mode, style, way
See Also: artistic style, average, church mode, common mood, condition, declarative, declarative mood, diatonic scale, ecclesiastical mode, fact mood, fit, form, grammatical relation, Greek mode, Gregorian mode, idiom, imperative, imperative mood, indicative, indicative mood, interrogative, interrogative mood, jussive mood, life style, lifestyle, life-style, logical relation, major diatonic scale, major scale, medieval mode, method, minor diatonic scale, minor scale, modus vivendi, norm, optative, optative mood, property, setup, signature, status, subjunctive, subjunctive mood, touch, wise
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