mode1

[mohd] /moʊd/
noun
1.
a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
modern modes of transportation.
2.
a particular type or form of something:
Heat is a mode of motion.
3.
a designated condition or status, as for performing a task or responding to a problem:
a machine in the automatic mode.
4.
Philosophy.
  1. appearance, form, or disposition taken by a thing, or by one of its essential properties or attributes.
  2. (in the philosophy of Spinoza) one of the nonessential qualifications of God, contingent upon other modes.
    Compare attribute (def 9).
5.
Logic.
  1. modality (def 3).
  2. mood2 (def 2).
6.
Music. any of various arrangements of the diatonic tones of an octave, differing from one another in the order of the whole steps and half steps; scale.
7.
Grammar, mood2 (def 1).
8.
Statistics. the value of the variate at which a relative or absolute maximum occurs in the frequency distribution of the variate.
9.
Petrography. the actual mineral composition of a rock, expressed in percentages by weight.
10.
Physics. any of the distinct patterns of oscillation that a given periodically varying system can have.
Origin
1250-1300; Middle English mod(e) (< Old French) < Latin modus measured amount, limit, manner, kind, tone
Synonyms
1. See method.

mode2

[mohd] /moʊd/
noun
1.
fashion or style in manners, dress, etc.:
He was much concerned to keep up with the latest mode.
2.
a light gray or drab color.
Origin
1635-45; < French < Latin modus; see mode1
Examples from the web for modes
  • To do it properly required a total understanding of the art and culture that gave rise to particular modes of writing.
  • Language changes, and modes of communication change as well.
  • The bad news is that there is an infinite number of modes.
  • The ongoing study will address more questions about benefits and risks of healthy modes of transportation.
  • He says this is evident in the many cities setting their goals for travel modes.
  • The expressive and regenerative modes alternately interact to span and integrate events in space and time in this way.
  • The car will also have three selectable driving modes.
  • Sharks have a whole range of reproductive modes from oviparity to viviparity.
  • Virtually no other virus has combined these two modes of immune avoidance.
  • On the biotech end you've got the modes and actions of specific genes.
British Dictionary definitions for modes

mode

/məʊd/
noun
1.
a manner or way of doing, acting, or existing
2.
the current fashion or style
3.
(music)
  1. any of the various scales of notes within one octave, esp any of the twelve natural diatonic scales taken in ascending order used in plainsong, folk song, and art music until 1600
  2. (in the music of classical Greece) any of the descending diatonic scales from which the liturgical modes evolved
  3. either of the two main scale systems in music since 1600: major mode, minor mode
4.
(logic, linguistics) another name for modality (sense 3), mood2 (sense 2)
5.
(philosophy) a complex combination of ideas the realization of which is not determined by the component ideas
6.
that one of a range of values that has the highest frequency as determined statistically Compare mean3 (sense 4), median (sense 6)
7.
the quantitative mineral composition of an igneous rock
8.
(physics) one of the possible configurations of a travelling or stationary wave
9.
(physics) one of the fundamental vibrations
Word Origin
C14: from Latin modus measure, manner
Word Origin and History for modes

mode

n.

"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.

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

modes in Medicine

mode (mōd)
n.

  1. The value or item occurring most frequently in a series of observations or statistical data.

  2. The number or range of numbers in a mathematical set that occurs the most frequently.

modes in Science
mode
(mōd)
The value that occurs most frequently in a data set. For example, in the set 125, 140, 172, 164, 140, 110, the mode is 140. Compare arithmetic mean, average, median.

modes in Culture

mode definition


In statistics, the most frequently appearing value in a set of numbers or data points. In the numbers 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 4, 9, 6, 8, and 6, the mode is 6, because it appears more often than any of the other figures. (See average; compare mean and median.)