Thesaurus: mode

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1. n. Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.
2. n. Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.
3. n. Variety; gradation; degree.
4. n. 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.
5. n. 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. n. Same as Mood.
7. n. 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.
8. n. A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.
9. n. how something is done or how it happens
10. n. a particular functioning condition or arrangement
11. n. a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
12. n. verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker