mode

Examples

• All

• One of the possible modes for employing high mimetic characters is allegory.

  Academic text (2001)

• Our experience to be the only possible mode of knowing things.

• Therefore, test results from one particular mode of contraction may not apply to another.

  Academic text (1997)

• Phase 1 is primarily in the mode of propositional knowing.

  Academic text (2001)

• A question arises as to the best mode of obtaining these alterations, whether by the means of a convention or by the constitutional mode pointed out in the 13th article of the confederation.

  Academic text (2016)

• In logic, there are three modes of propositions: necessity, possibility, and impossibility, which help classify statements.

• Understanding the mode of necessity is crucial when analyzing logical arguments about what must be true.

Synonyms

M

modality

vsmode

• Specialized

6 8.6

A particular way something is experienced, such as sight, sound or touch

is the logical category for classifying propositions as necessary possible or impossible

Idioms

A

a la mode

1 5.2

Served with ice cream on top or on the side

A

a la mode

7.4

In the current style that many people like

Compounds

M

major mode

• Specialized

1 6.3

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

C

church mode

• Specialized

9.9

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

E

ecclesiastical mode

• Formal

9.9

A pattern of notes that church singers use in medieval chant

A

asynchronous transfer mode

• Archaic

6.3

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

M

medieval mode

• Specialized

9.9

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

M

minor mode

• Specialized

7.6

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

M

musical mode

• Specialized

7.4

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

G

Greek mode

• Specialized

9.9

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

G

Gregorian mode

• Specialized

9.9

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

H

hard mode

• Jargon

6.4

A video game setting that makes play much harder

R

rabbit-o mode

• Slang

9.9

A state of becoming very jumpy and worried when stressed

Surface Forms

Etymology