mode
English
editPronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /moʊd/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /məʊd/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /mod/
- Rhymes: -əʊd
- Homophone: mowed (except Scotland)
Etymology 1
editFrom Old French mode (masculine), from Latin modus (“measure, due measure, rhythm, melody”). Doublet of modus.
Noun
editmode (plural modes)
- (music) One of several ancient Greek scales.
- (music) One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.
- A particular means of accomplishing something.
- What was the mode of entry?
- 1855, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, volume 9, page 205:
- An effectual and inexpensive mode of Protecting Wall-Trees from Spring-Frosts.
- A particular state of being, or frame of mind.
- After a series of early setbacks, her political campaign is in crisis mode.
- After being stabbed, he went into survival mode until he got to the hospital.
- (statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution.
- (mathematics, physics) A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
- (computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours.
- Hyponyms: emulation mode, immediate mode, local emulation mode, protected mode, real mode, retained mode, strict mode
- In insert mode, characters typed are directly inserted into the buffer.
- (electronics) A series of settings on a device used for a specific purpose.
- 2024 May 4, Mat Gallagher, “I tried Mercedes’ new autonomous driving in busy city streets – it's mind-blowing”, in T3[1]:
- The car was then placed into its Level 2 driving mode, much like you would for the current adaptive cruise control systems.
- (video games) A variation in gameplay, such as a difficulty level.
- 2017 October 17, Jonathan M. Gitlin, “Gran Turismo Sport is extremely limited in offline mode”, in Ars Technica[2]:
- Campaign mode (the career mode that includes the notorious Gran Turismo driving school) is off limits while offline. Also unavailable offline: buying new cars, viewing your garage, editing car liveries, and even the "taking photos of fancy cars in exotic scenery" mode.
- 2018 March 6, Martin Robinson, “Dispelling the myths of Bloodborne”, in Eurogamer[3]:
- I've stumbled over gaming's simplest hurdles, been humiliated by the lowliest of enemies and will often go for an easy mode if one's available, and yet I've run through Bloodborne twice without ever really breaking much of a sweat.
- 2019 February 25, Jordan Erica Webber, “Point and shoot: what's next for photography in video games?”, in The Guardian[4]:
- Selfie modes, meanwhile, let you add filters and change characters’ facial expressions, from Link in The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker to Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2.
- (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
- Synonyms: mood, grammatical mood
- Hyponyms: imperative mode, indicative mode, infinitive mode, subjunctive mode
- (philosophy) That which exists only as a quality of substance.
- (textiles) In lace-making, a small decorative piece inserted into a pattern.
- (textiles) The openwork between the solid parts of a pattern.
- (obsolete) A woman's mantle with a hood.
Derived terms
edit- aeroplane mode
- almost standards mode
- angry mode
- asynchronous transfer mode
- attract mode
- beast mode
- big real mode
- bi-mode, bimode
- B-mode
- boymode
- collective mode
- conjunctive mode
- cooked mode
- dark mode
- debug mode
- default mode network
- dual mode, dual-mode
- flat real mode
- flight mode
- game mode
- girlmode
- girlmode
- goblin mode
- god mode
- horde mode
- long mode
- major mode
- manmode
- minor mode
- Mode A
- Mode C
- mode-locked
- mode locking
- mode of discourse
- mode of production
- mode of thought
- mode of transport
- Mode S
- Mode X
- normal mode
- quirks mode
- real mode
- release mode
- Revlon mode
- rhetorical mode
- Sabbath mode
- safe mode
- Shabbat mode
- silent mode
- sleep mode
- soft mode
- spring-loaded mode
- thread mode
- trick mode
- tri-mode
- unreal mode
- V86-mode
- Vegas mode
- vibrate mode
- virtual 8086 mode
- virtual real mode
- voodoo mode
- whispering-gallery mode
- wizard mode
- yo-yo mode
- zero mode
- (grammar): See also Thesaurus:grammatical mood
- (music): Aeolian mode, Dorian mode, Ionian mode, Locrian mode, Lydian mode, Mixolydian mode, Phrygian mode
Related terms
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Etymology 2
editFrom French mode f (“fashion, trend”).
Noun
editmode (plural modes)
- Style or fashion; popular trend.
- Her wardrobe is always in mode.
- 1922, Edith Van Dyne, chapter 4, in Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman:
- The dress she wore was no longer a cheap blue serge but a handsome tricolette, richly trimmed according to the prevailing mode.
Derived terms
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editAnagrams
editCatalan
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin modus. Doublet of moda, a borrowing through French.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmode m (plural modes)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “mode” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Danish
editEtymology
editFrom French mode, from Latin modus (“manner, method”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmode c (singular definite moden, plural indefinite moder)
Inflection
editFurther reading
edit- mode on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Middle French mode, from Latin modus.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmode f (plural modes, diminutive modetje n)
- fashion, trend
- Het staat je vrij om de mode te volgen in België en Nederland — You're free to follow fashion in Belgium and the Netherlands.
- (obsolete) custom, tradition, manner
Derived terms
edit- burgermode
- damesmode
- haarmode
- herenmode
- kindermode
- modeartikel
- modebewust
- modeblad
- modegek
- modegril
- modekleur
- modekwaal
- modemaakster
- modemagazijn
- modenaaister
- modeontwerp
- modeontwerper
- modeplaat
- modepop
- modeshow
- modesnufje
- modetint
- modetrend
- modevak
- modeverschijnsel
- modewinkel
- modewoord
- modezaak
- modezot
- modezucht
- modieus
Descendants
editAnagrams
editEsperanto
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAdverb
editmode
- fashionably
- Synonym: laŭmode
- 1937, British Esperantist:
- Li preferas jarcento ol centjaro; kaj aprobas la formojn bluokulo (blua okulo) ; belknabino (bela knabino), libertempo (libera tempo), kiujn lastatempo estas mode kondamni.
- He prefers jarcento to centjaro, and approves the forms bluokulo (blua okulo) ; belknabino (bela knabino), libertempo (libera tempo), which it has been fashionable to condemn lately.
- 2002, Julian Modest, “La glita kaj danĝera vojo,”, in La Ondo de Esperanto:
- Li estis mode vestita per eleganta kolombkolora jako kaj blanka ĉemizo, kiu brilis kiel neĝo.
- He was fashionably dressed in an elegant dove-colored jacket and a white shirt that shined like snow.
- 2003, Thierry Salomon, “La mondolingvo,”, in Monato:
- Tie, dudek jarojn post la milito, iu sinjoro Etiemble skribis libron „Ĉu vi parolas frermane?”. Kiu dum iom da tempo havis efiketon kaj forpuŝis kelkajn germanismojn, sed poste por unu forpuŝita dek novaj venis. Ne estas mode rezisti al tiu fenomeno.
- There, twenty years after the war, one Mr. Etiemble wrote a book, "Do you speak Frerman?" Which for a little while had a small effect and pushed out a few germanisms, but later for each one pushed out ten new ones arrived. It's not fashionable to resist this phenomenon.
Finnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmode (colloquial)
- Synonym of moderaattori.
Declension
editInflection of mode (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | mode | modet | |
genitive | moden | modejen | |
partitive | modea | modeja | |
illative | modeen | modeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | mode | modet | |
accusative | nom. | mode | modet |
gen. | moden | ||
genitive | moden | modejen modein rare | |
partitive | modea | modeja | |
inessive | modessa | modeissa | |
elative | modesta | modeista | |
illative | modeen | modeihin | |
adessive | modella | modeilla | |
ablative | modelta | modeilta | |
allative | modelle | modeille | |
essive | modena | modeina | |
translative | modeksi | modeiksi | |
abessive | modetta | modeitta | |
instructive | — | modein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French mode, from Old French mode f, ultimately from Latin modus m. The masculine gender was reintroduced for some senses during the Middle French period under influence of the Latin. Doublet of mœuf.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmode f (plural modes)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Arabic: مُوضَة (mūḍa)
- → Bulgarian: мода (moda)
- → Catalan: moda
- → English: mode
- → German: Mode
- → Italian: moda
- → Khmer: ម៉ូត (mout)
- → Macedonian: мода (moda)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: mode, mote
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: mode; mote
- → Persian: مُد (mod)
- → Polish: moda
- → Portuguese: moda
- → Russian: мо́да (móda)
- → Serbo-Croatian: moda, мо́да
- → Spanish: moda
- → Vietnamese: mốt
Noun
editmode m (plural modes)
- method, means, way, mode
- mode de paiement ― method of payment
- Quel mode de transport est-ce que tu utilises ?
- What method of transport do you use?
- (grammar) mode, mood
- Synonym: (obsolete) mœuf
- (music) mode
- Synonym: (obsolete) mœuf
- (statistics) mode (most common value)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “mode”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editIndonesian
editEtymology
edit- From Dutch mode f, from Middle French mode f, from Latin modus m. Doublet of moda, model, modern, modul, and modus.
- Semantic loan from English mode in electronics and computing sense.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmodê (plural mode-mode, first-person possessive modeku, second-person possessive modemu, third-person possessive modenya)
- mode, style or fashion; popular trend.
- Synonym: fesyen
- mode,
- (electronics) a series of settings on a device used for a specific purpose.
- (computing) one of various related sets of rules for processing data.
Alternative forms
edit- mod (electronics, computing, Standard Malay)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “mode” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
editNoun
editmode f
Anagrams
editLatin
editNoun
editmode
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old English mōd, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmode (plural modes)
- Activity within one's mind or brain:
- A person's nature or temperament; that which defines one's behaviour.
- One's visible nature; the appearance of someone.
- (rare) One's actions as a whole; the way one behaves.
- (rare) Writing or speaking; communication.
- (rare) An enterprise or endeavour.
Related terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “mọ̄d, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-23.
Adjective
editmode (rare)
- Vain, boastful, conceited.
- Upset, distressed.
References
edit- “mọ̄de, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-23.
Etymology 2
editFrom Old French mode, from Latin modus.
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmode (plural modes) (Late Middle English)
- Grammatical mood or modality.
- (rare) Songs; pieces or sources of music.
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “mōd(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-23.
Norman
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
editmode f (plural modes)
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editFrom French mode (“fashion, trend”), from Middle French mode, from Old French mode, from Latin modus (“measure, manner”), from Proto-Italic *modōs, from Proto-Indo-European *mod-ōs (“measure”), from *med- (“to measure”). Doublet of mote.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editmode
Anagrams
editNorwegian Nynorsk
editAlternative forms
editAdjective
editmode
Old English
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmōde
Pali
editAlternative forms
editVerb
editmode
- inflection of modati (“to rejoice”):
Swedish
editEtymology
editFrom French.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmode n
- fashion, a fashion trend
- senaste modet ― the latest fashion
Declension
editDerived terms
edit- dammode
- herrmode
- höstmode
- kvinnomode
- modeaffär
- modeartikel
- modebetonad
- modebild
- modebutik
- modedocka
- modedrottning
- modeindustri
- modejournal
- modekung
- modelejon
- modemagasin
- modemedveten
- modenyck
- modeord
- moderiktig
- moderiktning
- modeshow
- modeskapare
- modeströmning
- modetidning
- sommarmode
- vintermode
- vårmode
See also
edit- English 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/əʊd
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- en:Music
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- ca:Logic
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- Rhymes:Dutch/oːdə
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- enm:Appearance
- enm:Communication
- enm:Emotions
- enm:Grammar
- enm:Mind
- enm:Music
- Norman lemmas
- Norman nouns
- Norman feminine nouns
- Jersey Norman
- nrf:Fashion
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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