mode

Examples

• All

• You need to put your phone on airplane mode all the time.

• I'll just put it on quiet mode.

  Final Destination 2 (2003)

• You just set the watch to home run mode and watch this.

  The Late Late Show with James Corden

• So let me just get it onto switch mode now.

• I could display this in operating mode if I wanted to.

• Just put your phone on the video camera mode and go like this.

• If you stay in conservation mode, you will lose it all.

• So this is what portrait mode looks like off and on.

• We've got a night light mode and a Christmas mode.

• The goal is to move those being regulated into a mode of self-inspection and compliance.

  Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

S

status

vsmode

774 2.9

A current condition of something at a specific time

is about device settings and functioning arrangements

C

condition

vsmode

769 2.1

How good or bad something is at a particular time

is focused on device settings or operational arrangements

Idioms

A

a la mode

2 5.2

Served with ice cream on top or on the side

A

a la mode

2 7.4

In the current style that many people like

Compounds

H

hard mode

• Jargon

1 6.4

A video game setting that makes play much harder

M

musical mode

• Specialized

1 7.4

A pattern of eight notes that gives a piece of Western music its typical sound

M

major mode

• Specialized

1 6.3

A way of using the major scale in music that sounds bright and happy

M

minor mode

• Specialized

1 7.6

A musical key that uses a pattern of notes and sounds sad or serious

A

asynchronous transfer mode

• Archaic

1 6.3

A fast digital way to send small pieces of data that are the same size, such as voice and video

C

church mode

• Specialized

1 9.9

A pattern of musical notes used in old church music that gives a melody its own sound

G

Greek mode

• Specialized

1 9.9

A musical scale with a fixed pattern of notes used in ancient Greek music

E

ecclesiastical mode

• Formal

1 9.9

A pattern of notes that church singers use in medieval chant

M

medieval mode

• Specialized

9.9

A pattern of notes used in old Western music like Gregorian chant

G

Gregorian mode

• Specialized

9.9

A musical scale used in old church singing that gives chants a special sound

R

rabbit-o mode

• Slang

9.9

A state of becoming very jumpy and worried when stressed

How Active

turbo

• Informal

27 4.9

performance

• Specialized

184 3.0

mode

323 3.9

standby

59 3.7

sleep

• Specialized

4 4.7

off

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology