mode
pronunciation
How to pronounce mode in British English:
UK [məʊd]
How to pronounce mode in American English:
US [moʊd]
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- Noun:
- how something is done or how it happens
- a particular functioning condition or arrangement
- a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
- verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
- any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
- the most frequent value of a random variable
Word Origin
- mode (n.1)
- "manner," late 14c., "kind of musical scale," from Latin modus "measure, extent, quantity; proper measure, rhythm, song; a way, manner, fashion, style" (in Late Latin also "mood" in grammar and logic), from PIE root *med- "to measure, limit, consider, advise, take appropriate measures" (see medical). Meaning "manner in which a thing is done" first recorded 1660s.
- mode (n.2)
- "current fashion," 1640s, from French mode "manner, fashion, style" (15c.), from Latin modus "manner" (see mode (n.1)).
Example
- 1. Gestation mode pertains to larger life projects as well .
- 2. Gestation mode is the fallow period between versions of a deliverable / prototype / piece of content .
- 3. Running in econ mode , my fully recharged car registered a range of 116 miles .
- 4. As cleese saw it , " closed mode " was far more common at work .
- 5. Europe probably enters a recovery mode .