mode
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3.9
- noun
- /moʊd/
:
modo
- The printer has a draft mode for printing quickly and saving ink.
- default mode
- transmission mode
- graphic mode
I don't trust it's portrait mode setting over the Pixels.
- I don't trust it's portrait mode setting over the Pixels.
- You just set the watch to home run mode and watch this.
- So Casey probably could have turned on travel mode in the subway.
- It even has a a beauty mode to enhance.
- This car has four different modes of exhaust.
Examples
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You need to put your phone on airplane mode all the time.
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I'll just put it on quiet mode.
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You just set the watch to home run mode and watch this.
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So let me just get it onto switch mode now.
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I could display this in operating mode if I wanted to.
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Just put your phone on the video camera mode and go like this.
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If you stay in conservation mode, you will lose it all.
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So this is what portrait mode looks like off and on.
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We've got a night light mode and a Christmas mode.
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The goal is to move those being regulated into a mode of self-inspection and compliance.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A pattern of musical notes used in old church music that gives a melody its own sound
- Archaic
A fast digital way to send small pieces of data that are the same size, such as voice and video
- Specialized
A pattern of eight notes that gives a piece of Western music its typical sound
- Specialized
A musical scale with a fixed pattern of notes used in ancient Greek music
- Specialized
A musical scale used in old church singing that gives chants a special sound
How Active
- Informal
- Specialized
483
3.0
174
3.9
- Specialized
28
4.7
8
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mode comes from the Latin word modus, meaning 'measure' or 'manner', so it suggests a set way something works. That's why a machine in 'eco mode' is running in a particular, measured setting.