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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	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]

	

	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

	

	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.

	

	Mode
     
        An object-oriented language.
     
        ["The Programming Language Mode: Language Definition and User
        Guide", J. Vihavainen, C-1987-50, U Helsinki, 1987].
     
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	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)

	

	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. 
	

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