mode
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /məʊd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /moʊd/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊd
- Homophone: mowed
Etymology 1
From Old French mode, from Latin modus (“measure, due measure, rhythm, melody”)
Noun
mode (plural modes)
- (music) One of several ancient Greek scales.
- (music) 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.
- A particular means of accomplishing something.
- What was the mode of entry?
- 1855, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society (volume 9, page 205)
- An effectual and inexpensive mode of Protecting Wall-Trees from Spring-Frosts.
- (statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution
- (mathematics, physics) A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
- (computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data.
- In insert mode, characters typed are directly inserted into the buffer
- (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
- (grammar) mood, grammatical mood
Hyponyms
- collective mode
- dual mode
- soft mode
- (computing): emulation mode, immediate mode, local emulation mode, protected mode, real mode, retained mode, strict mode
- (grammar): imperative mode, indicative mode, infinitive mode, subjunctive mode. See also Thesaurus:grammatical mood
- (music): Aeolian mode, Dorian mode, Ionian mode, Locrian mode, Lydian mode, Mixolydian mode, Phrygian mode
Derived terms
Translations
in music
means of accomplishing something
in statistics
state of a system represented by an eigenfunction of that system
in computing
grammatical mood — see grammatical mood
Etymology 2
Noun
mode (plural modes)
Derived terms
Translations
style or fashion
See also
Anagrams
Catalan
Noun
mode m (plural modes)
Danish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moːdə/, [ˈmoːðə]
Noun
mode c (singular definite moden, plural indefinite moder)
Inflection
Further reading
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Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
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audio (file) - Hyphenation: mo‧de
Noun
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɔd/
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audio (file)
Noun
mode f (plural modes)
Derived terms
Noun
mode m (plural modes)
Synonyms
- (grammar): mœuf
Anagrams
Further reading
- “mode” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
mode f
- plural of moda
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
mode
- vocative singular of modus
Norman
Noun
mode f (plural modes)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Adjective
mode
- neuter singular of moden
Swedish
Etymology
From French
Pronunciation
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audio (file)
Noun
mode n
- fashion, a fashion trend
Declension
| Declension of mode | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | mode | modet | moden | modena |
| Genitive | modes | modets | modens | modenas |
Related terms
- höstmode
- modelejon
- modetidning
- vårmode
See also
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