mode

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

2. n. Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode. Source: opted

3. n. Variety; gradation; degree. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

6. n. Same as Mood. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

8. n. A kind of silk. See Alamode, n. Source: opted

9. n. how something is done or how it happens Source: wordnet

10. n. a particular functioning condition or arrangement Source: wordnet

11. n. a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility Source: wordnet

12. n. verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker Source: wordnet

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