Mode

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mode \Mode\ (m[=o]d), 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.
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              The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of
              doing it may easily be found.         --Jer. Taylor.
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              A table richly spread in regal mode.  --Milton.
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     2. Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the
        phrase the mode.
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              The easy, apathetic graces of a man of the mode.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     3. Variety; gradation; degree. --Pope.
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     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}.
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              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.
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     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.
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     6. (Gram.) Same as {Mood}.
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     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.
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     Note: In modern music, only the major and the minor mode, of
           whatever key, are recognized.
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     8. A kind of silk. See {Alamode}, n.
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     9. (Gram.) the value of the variable in a frequency
        distribution or probability distribution, at which the
        probability or frequency has a maximum. The maximum may be
        local or global. Distributions with only one such maximum
        are called {unimodal}; with two maxima, {bimodal}, and
        with more than two, {multimodal}.
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     Syn: Method; manner. See {Method}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mode
       n 1: 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"
            [syn: {manner}, {style}, {way}, {fashion}]
       2: a particular functioning condition or arrangement; "switched
          from keyboard to voice mode"
       3: a classification of propositions on the basis of whether
          they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility [syn:
           {modality}]
       4: verb inflections that express how the action or state is
          conceived by the speaker [syn: {mood}, {modality}]
       5: any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes
          within an octave [syn: {musical mode}]
       6: the most frequent value of a random variable [syn: {modal
          value}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  187 Moby Thesaurus words for "mode":
     Aeolian mode, Aristotelian sorites, Dorian mode, Goclenian sorites,
     Greek modes, Hindu mode, Indian mode, Locrian mode, Lydian mode,
     MO, Phrygian mode, Platonic form, Platonic idea, SOP,
     aesthetic form, affectation, algorithm, approach, archetype,
     art form, attack, authentic mode, bearings, bon ton, build, case,
     cast, categorical syllogism, chic, circumstance,
     command of language, complexion, condition, conditional,
     configuration, conformation, convention, course, craze, cry,
     custom, cut, dilemma, enthymeme, estate, exaggeration,
     expression of ideas, fad, fashion, feeling for words, figuration,
     figure, fix, footing, form, form of speech, format, formation,
     frame, furore, genre, grace of expression, grandiloquence, guise,
     haute couture, high fashion, hypoaeolian mode, hypodorian mode,
     hypoionian mode, hypolocrian mode, hypolydian mode,
     hypomixolydian mode, hypophrygian mode, imperative, impression,
     indicative, inflation, inner form, jam, jussive, layout, line,
     line of action, lines, literary style, location, look, lot,
     major mode, make, makeup, manner, manner of speaking,
     manner of working, mannerism, matrix, means, method, methodology,
     minor mode, mixolydian mode, modality, mode of expression,
     mode of operation, mode of procedure, model, modus, modus operandi,
     modus tollens, mold, mood, obligative, octave species, optative,
     order, paralogism, pass, pattern, peculiarity, permissive,
     personal style, pickle, place, plagal mode, plight, position,
     posture, potential, practice, predicament, prevailing taste,
     procedure, proceeding, process, proper thing, prosyllogism,
     prototype, pseudosyllogism, raga, rage, rank, rhetoric, routine,
     rule, rule of deduction, sense of language, set, set-up, shape,
     significant form, situation, sorites, spot, stamp,
     standard operating procedure, standing, state, station, status,
     strain, stream of fashion, structure, style, stylistic analysis,
     stylistics, subjunctive, swim, syllogism, system, tack, technique,
     tenor, the drill, the grand style, the how, the plain style,
     the sublime, the way of, tone, trend, trick, turn, type, vein,
     vogue, way, wise
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  mode n. [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.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Mode
       
          An {object-oriented language}.
       
          ["The Programming Language Mode: Language Definition and User
          Guide", J. Vihavainen, C-1987-50, U Helsinki, 1987].
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1994-10-21)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  mode
       
          1. 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 {chat}.
       
          2. More technically, 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.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1994-12-22)
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  MODEL. A machine made on a small scale to show the manner in which it is to 
  be worked or employed. 
       2. The Act of Congress of July 4, 1836, section 6, requires an inventor 
  who is desirous to take out a patent for his invention, to furnish a model 
  of his invention, in all cases which admit of representation by model, of a 
  convenient size to exhibit advantageously its several parts.