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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mode
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a form/mode/method/means of travel
▪ I find the train a more comfortable mode of travel.
a means/mode/form of transport
▪ Horses and carts were the only means of transport.
means/mode/form of transportation
▪ People need to get out of their cars and use other modes of transportation.
à la mode
▪ apple pie à la mode
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
addressing
▪ What effect could this have on the design of the computer's jump instructions and addressing modes?
▪ Are the addressing modes provided the same as for data manipulation instructions? 3.8.
alternative
▪ The economic literature largely ignores the fact that the public sector has devised its own alternative modes of efficiency incentive.
▪ An alternative mode of entry is available for the Tax Inspectorate.
▪ Rules are arbitrary in character and are to do with the manner in which people choose between alternative modes of conduct.
▪ An alternative mode of input is provided by the notepad function which accepts free-hand sketches and notes.
▪ At least the existence of a range of alternative modes of provision as between one local authority and another widens the choice available.
▪ This state will repress all other classes in society until it is questioned by an alternative mode of production.
▪ However, it is important to list these alternative modes and thus acknowledge the variety of provision in the Authority.
asiatic
▪ Marx and Engels never explicitly defined nor adhered to a static interpretation of the Asiatic mode of production.
capitalist
▪ The capitalist mode of production, for example, developed in Britain prior to industrialisation.
▪ As we have seen in the case of Mormonism, a dialectical relationship exists between the Asiatic and the capitalist modes.
▪ Thus the capitalist mode articulates with the peasant mode, with the latter playing a subordinate role and the former benefiting.
▪ In the capitalist mode of production, however, the workers are landless and have no independent means of subsistence.
▪ First, the state must meet the ever-increasing requirements for effective demand generated by the capitalist mode of production.
▪ The only ultimately effective way the worker can resist is through collective class action to overthrow the capitalist mode of production.
▪ In this lay the historical peculiarity of the capitalist mode of production.
▪ The superiority of the capitalist mode of production led to a rapid transformation of the structure of society.
different
▪ The Masters in Business Administration Degree is offered through four different modes of study.
▪ No one is sure these starkly different political modes can coexist on Capitol Hill.
▪ It should be used as a platform from which to explore the different modes that he suggests of lessening the short-run myopia.
▪ As they try to find out who they are they may experiment with a number of different modes.
▪ In the high grade group, none of the variables or different modes of treatment influenced mortality.
▪ The following table shows how many litres of petrol per 100 passenger kilometres different modes of transport consume.
▪ The second will tend rather towards structuring the students' thinking towards the creation of language activities in different modes.
▪ The Midi Mate allows you to send up to three patch changes on three different channels and offers three different operational modes.
dominant
▪ Before long, cheating will have evolved to become the dominant mode of behaviour.
▪ It is bad teaching, but it remains a dominant mode of many professional presentations.
▪ The dominance of the dominant mode must be legitimated.
▪ Under feudalism, Marxists argue, the dominant mode of production was based on the ownership of land.
▪ This occurs when agriculture becomes the dominant mode of production.
▪ What is the dominant mode of knowledge within the discipline?
▪ Pastoral myth was a dominant mode of social understanding through much of the eighteenth century.
empirical
▪ They have to be able to distinguish between the empirical and deductive modes.
new
▪ With its new mode of power, the company continued until it finally closed its doors in September 1982.
▪ The new mode is to learn when the learning is needed, not to count on learning in advance.
▪ The introduction of the national curriculum and new modes of assessment provide a context for the study.
▪ Above the boundary, the world quickly quiets down to a new mode of functioning.
▪ Horizons were inevitably restricted, the weight of traditions heavy, the invention of new techniques and modes of expression limited.
▪ People are learning new modes of courtesy and communications to help smooth this process.
▪ There are several factors which directly connect postmodernism and the new mode of economic regulation.
▪ To declare enthusiasm for feminist ideals is almost a new mode of macho, a way to flaunt an invulnerable virility.
normal
▪ When centralized planning is used as the normal mode of economic control, a number of deficiencies loom into view: 1.
▪ Consequently, the normal mode of op-eration was with the top open.
▪ It is certainly the case that normal mode inference is computationally more tractable.
▪ If all preferences are strong, so that only normal mode inference is ever performed, wrong choices will be made.
▪ Also very important, if at all possible, is to have some idea of a teacher's normal mode of operation.
other
▪ The other mode depends on occasional small mutations, like the changes in the parameters of protozoa.
▪ He is right to emphasise the general safety level of the railways, which compares favourably with all other modes of transport.
▪ In the 1905 text, these other modes enjoy a rather higher status.
▪ But so must the subsidiary places of other modes and classes, despite their conflicting interests.
▪ Using the ailerons during the recovery, for example, may be the means of entering one of these other modes of spin.
▪ In this, it corresponds to other artistic modes.
▪ However, as we shall see, in other modes, because does not necessarily introduce the first event.
▪ Bypass is self-explanatory, but the difference between the other modes is interesting.
particular
▪ Fig. 5.24 shows how such measurements can be used in the assignment of bands to particular vibrational modes. 5.8.3.
▪ It would not be possible to conceive of Ultimate Concern apart from particular modes of religious discourse.
▪ Thus a practice is distinguished by a particular mode of production, adapted to its own kind of product.
■ NOUN
transfer
▪ The extensions support transfer modes of up to 66M-bytes per second or 133M-bytes per second for bus master expansion boards.
■ VERB
change
▪ He was wearing a decent black cloth lounge suit, and had no intentions of changing his mode of attire.
▪ Despite the changing modes of life, they are attentive to the paradoxical utterances of their progenitor.
▪ My problems began some days later when I wanted to change the video mode.
▪ Things change when a different mode of knowledge based on purposive-rational action reaches a certain stage of development.
▪ The social historian may he interested in changing modes of dress, or agricultural and industrial machinery.
run
▪ It also uses Extended memory and will run in Protected mode under Windows.
▪ Since the Validation program may take several hours to run, it is recommended that it is run overnight in batch mode.
▪ With MainWin, the Windows applications will reportedly run in native mode with no intervening emulation level to bog down performance.
▪ Some software is therefore designed to run in conversational mode.
▪ The plant continued to run in warm-up mode while the federal government attempted unsuccessfully to persuade North-Rhine Westphalia to reconsider.
▪ Does running Scanreg from Safe mode cure it?
▪ I run through my modes in every key.
switch
▪ Once you're offline, switch to Work Offline mode and browse through the articles as if you're online.
▪ According to Motorola, the function allowing the 88110 to switch between different caching modes - write-through and copy-back - was faulty.
▪ The chapter focus then switches to chromatographic modes, reversed phase, ion exchange and size exclusion being examined.
use
▪ When centralized planning is used as the normal mode of economic control, a number of deficiencies loom into view: 1.
▪ Although by now an excellent flyer, he still showed no interest in using flight as a mode of play.
▪ Checklists Checklists are used in the pre-start mode, for routine maintenance and for fault-finding.
▪ It is safest to use this mode only when you are replacing characters with the same number of new ones.
▪ It can be adjusted to any temperature between 20°C and 99°C, and it can be used in conjunction with all operating modes.
▪ It uses a mode dial on the top to switch on the camera and select between manual, automatic and playback modes.
▪ Here the 555 timer i.c. is used in conventional monostable mode but with a control voltage applied to pin 5.
▪ If you have a document with columns of numbers you can sum the columns independently by using WordStar's column mode.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
form/mode/style of address
▪ Besides that, he used the intimate form of address, tum.
▪ Both were perceived as amoral sources of power which responded more or less predictably to specific modes of address.
▪ Even in a formal business letter you should use a personal and human form of address.
▪ He stuttered nervously before managing to answer herand when he did, he used the masculine form of address.
▪ Seating arrangements at conferences, forms of address and other issues of this kind remained a continual source of potential difficulty.
▪ The effect of this intense focus on modes of address is that personal pronouns become unusually prominent.
▪ The patient should be told of the mode of address used in that particular hospital for professional staff.
▪ Without the royal family, titles would be just that - forms of address for the self-important to dignify themselves.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Commercial airlines have the lowest accident rate of all transportation modes.
▪ In the late 20th century, we have more choices about modes of living.
▪ The car features an economy driving mode.
▪ To put the VCR in record mode you press record and play simultaneously.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Closely related to the irons in mode of origin are stony-irons, which make up about 2 percent of all falls.
▪ Especially this year, when it has scarcely rained, and everyone is in full athletic mode seven days a week.
▪ In use, I tried most of the exposure modes.
▪ Metaphor is the dominant structuring mechanism of the novels, stylized transcription of consciousness their fictional mode.
▪ Perform combination techniques on the move so that you are able to work effectively in a retreating as well as an advancing mode.
▪ The agencies dealing with business and corporate elites tend to employ a more co-operative mode than those dealing with the poor.
▪ The dominance of the dominant mode must be legitimated.
▪ The optimized compiler has a blended mode option for applications that will run on 80486 and Pentium boxes as well as a Pentium-only mode.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mode

Mode \Mode\ (m[=o]d), n. [L. modus a measure, due or proper measure, bound, manner, form; akin to E. mete: cf. F. mode. See Mete, and cf. Commodious, Mood in grammar, Modus.]

  1. Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.

    The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of doing it may easily be found.
    --Jer. Taylor.

    A table richly spread in regal mode.
    --Milton.

  2. Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.

    The easy, apathetic graces of a man of the mode.
    --Macaulay.

  3. Variety; gradation; degree.
    --Pope.

  4. (Metaph.) Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter.

    Modes I call such complex ideas, which, however compounded, contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies on, or affections of, substances.
    --Locke.

  5. (Logic) The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood.

  6. (Gram.) Same as Mood.

  7. (Mus.) The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music.

    Note: In modern music, only the major and the minor mode, of whatever key, are recognized.

  8. A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.

  9. (Gram.) the value of the variable in a frequency distribution or probability distribution, at which the probability or frequency has a maximum. The maximum may be local or global. Distributions with only one such maximum are called unimodal; with two maxima, bimodal, and with more than two, multimodal.

    Syn: Method; manner. See Method.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mode

"manner," late 14c., "kind of musical scale," from Latin modus "measure, extent, quantity; proper measure, rhythm, song; a way, manner, fashion, style" (in Late Latin also "mood" in grammar and logic), from PIE root *med- "to measure, limit, consider, advise, take appropriate measures" (see medical). Meaning "manner in which a thing is done" first recorded 1660s.

mode

"current fashion," 1640s, from French mode "manner, fashion, style" (15c.), from Latin modus "manner" (see mode (n.1)).

Wiktionary
mode

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context music English) One of several ancient scales, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale 2 A particular means of accomplishing something. 3 (context statistics English) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution 4 (context mathematics physics English) A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system. 5 (context computing English) One of various related sets of rules for processing data. 6 (context grammar English) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality. Etymology 2

n. Style or fashion.

WordNet
mode
  1. n. how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion" [syn: manner, style, way, fashion]

  2. a particular functioning condition or arrangement; "switched from keyboard to voice mode"

  3. a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility [syn: modality]

  4. verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker [syn: mood, modality]

  5. any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave [syn: musical mode]

  6. the most frequent value of a random variable [syn: modal value]

Wikipedia
Mode

Mode ( meaning "manner, tune, measure, due measure, rhythm, melody") may refer to:

Mode (music)

In the theory of Western music, mode (from Latin modus, "measure, standard, manner, way, size, limit of quantity, method") (; OED) generally refers to a type of scale, coupled with a set of characteristic melodic behaviours. This use, still the most common in recent years, reflects a tradition dating to the Middle Ages, itself inspired by the theory of ancient Greek music.

Mode (statistics)

The mode is the value that appears most often in a set of data. The mode of a discrete probability distribution is the value x at which its probability mass function takes its maximum value. In other words, it is the value that is most likely to be sampled. The mode of a continuous probability distribution is the value x at which its probability density function has its maximum value, so the mode is at the peak.

Like the statistical mean and median, the mode is a way of expressing, in a single number, important information about a random variable or a population. The numerical value of the mode is the same as that of the mean and median in a normal distribution, and it may be very different in highly skewed distributions.

The mode is not necessarily unique to a given distribution, since the probability mass function or probability density function may take the same maximum value at several points x, x, etc. The most extreme case occurs in uniform distributions, where all values occur equally frequently. When a probability density function has multiple local maxima it is common to refer to all of the local maxima as modes of the distribution. Such a continuous distribution is called multimodal (as opposed to unimodal).

In symmetric unimodal distributions, such as the normal distribution, the mean (if defined), median and mode all coincide. For samples, if it is known that they are drawn from a symmetric distribution, the sample mean can be used as an estimate of the population mode.

Mode (computer interface)

In user interface design, a mode is a distinct setting within a computer program or any physical machine interface, in which the same user input will produce perceived results different to those that it would in other settings. The best-known modal interface components are probably the Caps lock and Insert keys on the standard computer keyboard, both of which put the user's typing into a different mode after being pressed, then return it to the regular mode after being re-pressed.

An interface that uses no modes is known as a modeless interface. Modeless interfaces avoid mode errors by making it impossible for the user to commit them.

Mode (literature)

In literature, a mode is an employed method or approach, identifiable within a written work. As descriptive terms, form and genre are often used inaccurately instead of mode; for example, the pastoral mode is often mistakenly identified as a genre. The Writers Web site feature, A List of Important Literary Terms, defines mode thus:

An unspecific critical term usually identifying a broad, but identifiable literary method, mood, or manner, that is not tied exclusively to a particular form or genre. [Some] examples are the satiric mode, the ironic, the comic, the pastoral, and the didactic. (CB)

MODE (magazine)

MODE (stylized MODE) was a fashion magazine aimed towards plus-size women which launched in the spring of 1997. The magazine was praised for targeting the plus-size consumer with a Vogue-like fashion philosophy. MODE also helped to increase the growth of the plus-size industry and the caliber of plus-size clothing and advertising. In 1997, MODE was named the best new magazine launch by Ad Week and Advertising Age. MODE also ran model search competitions in conjunction with the Wilhelmina modeling agency, drawing entries from thousands of hopefuls from the US and Canada. Its circulation was approximately 600,000 at the time of its demise in October 2001.

Usage examples of "mode".

But instead of abusing, or exerting, the authority of the state, to revenge his personal injuries, Julian contented himself with an inoffensive mode of retaliation, which it would be in the power of few princes to employ.

But after what mode does Actualization exist in the Intellectual Realm?

Because of the speed - and thus the intensity - of the onset of the rush, smoking is the most addictive mode of delivery for illicit drugs.

The toggle must have been set for DNA mode, since the buttons were displaying the Neanderthal glyphs for adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine.

Our favorite mode of administering both veratrum and aconite is to add ten drops of the tincture to ten or fifteen teaspoonfuls of water, of which one teaspoonful may be administered every hour.

Thus it was foreshadowed that the law of the land and the due process of law clauses, which were originally inserted in our constitutions to consecrate a specific mode of trial in criminal cases, to wit, the grand jury, petit jury process of the common law, would be transformed into a general restraint upon substantive legislation capable of affecting property rights detrimentally.

He vanquished the monster of Libya, the president Andronicus, who abused the authority of a venal office, invented new modes of rapine and torture, and aggravated the guilt of oppression by that of sacrilege.

It seemed that each anchor had its ambience extending across the Modes of the Virtual Mode, making it possible to travel without getting lost.

The Megaplayers were the ones most likely to be able to reverse the animus, establish the anima, and so change the culture of Oria and free the anchor of the hostile spell which prevented the main party from returning to the Virtual Mode.

In a less strenuous mode, his mother painted countless aquarelles for him, as she had since he was an infant, but although he remained emotionally indebted to her melting hues, his own experiments only made the paper warp and curl.

As a mode of explaining the Scriptures, it is refuted by the fact that it is nowhere plainly stated in the New Testament, but is arbitrarily constructed by forced and indirect inferences from various obscure texts, which texts can be perfectly explained without involving it at all.

The black armazine gown, equipped with long, tight sleeves that would have been considered screamingly out of mode at Court, was bordered at the collar, cuffs, and hem with wide bands of black ducape stitched with winged crescents in silver.

General grammar does not attempt to define the laws of all languages, but to examine each particular language, in turn, as a mode of the articulation of thought upon itself.

Clearly we cannot estimate their ethical value until we have learned the modes in which they have actually determined human conduct for good or evil: in other words, we cannot judge of the morality of religious beliefs until we have ascertained their history: the facts must be known before judgment can be passed on them: the work of the historian must precede the work of the moralist.

He is to be free upon certain conditions but whether those conditions do or do not pertain to him no mode of ascertaining is provided.