mode
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /moʊd/
Audio (US) (file)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /məʊd/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /mod/
- Rhymes: -əʊd
- Homophone: mowed (except Scotland)
Etymology 1 edit
From Old French mode (masculine), from Latin modus (“measure, due measure, rhythm, melody”). Doublet of modus.
Noun edit
mode (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.
- In insert mode, characters typed are directly inserted into the buffer.
- Hyponyms: emulation mode, immediate mode, local emulation mode, protected mode, real mode, retained mode, strict mode
- (electronics) A series of settings on a device used for a specific purpose.
- (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[1]:
- 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[2]:
- 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[3]:
- 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
- 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
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Etymology 2 edit
From French mode f (“fashion, trend”).
Noun edit
mode (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 edit
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See also edit
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin modus. Doublet of moda, a borrowing through French.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mode m (plural modes)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “mode” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From French mode, from Latin modus (“manner, method”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mode c (singular definite moden, plural indefinite moder)
Inflection edit
Further reading edit
- mode on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle French mode, from Latin modus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mode 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 edit
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Esperanto edit
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Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
mode
- 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 edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
mode (colloquial)
- Synonym of moderaattori.
Declension edit
Inflection 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 modeinrare | ||
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 edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited 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 edit
Noun edit
mode f (plural modes)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Bulgarian: мода (moda)
- → Catalan: moda
- → Khmer: ម៉ូត (mout)
- → English: mode
- → German: Mode
- → Italian: moda
- → Norwegian Bokmål: mode, mote
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: mode; mote
- → Macedonian: мода (moda)
- → Persian: مُد (mod)
- → Polish: moda
- → Portuguese: moda
- → Russian: мо́да (móda)
- → Serbo-Croatian: moda, мо́да
- → Spanish: moda
- → Vietnamese: mốt
Noun edit
mode 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#English
- Synonym: (obsolete) mœuf
- (statistics) mode (most common value)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “mode”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Indonesian edit
Etymology 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 edit
Noun edit
modê (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 edit
Further 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 Indonesia, 2016.
Italian edit
Noun edit
mode f
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Latin edit
Noun edit
mode
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English mōd, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mode (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.
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Descendants edit
References edit
- “mọ̄d, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-23.
Adjective edit
mode (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 edit
From Old French mode, from Latin modus.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mode (plural modes) (Late Middle English)
- Grammatical mood or modality.
- (rare) Songs; pieces or sources of music.
Descendants edit
References edit
- “mōd(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-23.
Norman edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
mode f (plural modes)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From 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 edit
Adverb edit
mode
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Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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mode
Pali edit
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Verb edit
mode
- inflection of modati (“to rejoice”):
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From French.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mode n
- fashion, a fashion trend
- senaste modet ― the latest fashion
Declension edit
Declension of mode | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | mode | modet | moden | modena |
Genitive | modes | modets | modens | modenas |
Derived 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