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[Mode]

You can describe the specific style of doing something as your mode. If you're in vacation mode, for example, it might mean you say everything in a super relaxed voice and spend all of your classes daydreaming.

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Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.

Noun
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"

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the most frequent value of a random variable

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any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave

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verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

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a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility

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Noun
a particular functioning condition or arrangement; "switched from keyboard to voice mode"

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Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.

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Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.

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Variety; gradation; degree.

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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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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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Same as Mood.

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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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A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.

Mode

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.

A table richly spread in regal mode.

2. Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.

The easy, apathetic graces of a man of the mode.

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.

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. &hand; 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.

Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.

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Usage Examples

If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it's amazing how good we are at it.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

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Other Usage Examples

All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.