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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old French mode (masculine), from Latin modus (“measure, due measure, rhythm, melody”). Doublet of modus.
Noun
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: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: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: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.
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means of accomplishing something
- Armenian: եղանակ (hy) (eġanak), ձեւ (hy) (jew), կերպ (hy) (kerp)
- Bulgarian: начин (bg) m (način), способ (bg) m (sposob)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 方式 (zh) (fāngshì), 辦法/办法 (zh) (bànfǎ)
- Dutch: wijze (nl) f
- Esperanto: maniero (eo), metodo (eo)
- Estonian: viis (et)
- Finnish: tapa (fi), keino (fi)
- French: manière (fr) f, façon (fr) f, mode (fr) m
- Georgian: მეთოდი (ka) (metodi), საშუალება (sašualeba)
- German: Art (de) f
- Greek: μέθοδος (el) f (méthodos), τρόπος (el) m (trópos)
- Ancient: τρόπος m (trópos)
- Hebrew: דֶּרֶךְ (he) f (derekh)
- Hungarian: mód (hu), módozat (hu)
- Japanese: モード (mōdo)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: awa (ku) m, şêwe (ku) f
- Latin: modus (la) m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: modus m
- Nynorsk: modus m
- Polish: sposób (pl) m, metoda (pl) f
- Russian: ме́тод (ru) m (métod), мето́дика (ru) m (metódika), спо́соб (ru) m (spósob), лад (ru) m (lad), мане́ра (ru) f (manéra)
- Scottish Gaelic: modh m or f, dòigh f
- Spanish: modo (es)
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a particular state of being, or frame of mind
statistics: the most frequently occurring value in a distribution
mathematics, physics: state of a system represented by an eigenfunction of that system
Etymology 2
From French mode f (“fashion, trend”).
Noun
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.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin modus. Doublet of moda, a borrowing through French.
Pronunciation
Noun
mode m (plural modes)
- way, manner
- (logic) modus
- (grammar) mood
- (music) mode
- (philosophy) mode
- (mathematics, physics) mode
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Danish
Etymology
From French mode, from Latin modus (“manner, method”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mode c (singular definite moden, plural indefinite moder)
- fashion
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French mode, from Latin modus.
Pronunciation
Noun
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
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Esperanto
Etymology
From modo + -e.
Pronunciation
Adverb
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
Etymology
Clipping of moderaattori
Pronunciation
Noun
mode (colloquial)
- Synonym of moderaattori.
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French
Etymology
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
Noun
mode f (plural modes)
- fashion, trend
Il faut suivre la mode en France.- You've got to follow fashion in France.
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Noun
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)
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Indonesian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
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
- mod (electronics, computing, Standard Malay)
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Italian
Noun
mode f
- plural of moda
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Latin
Noun
mode
- vocative singular of modus
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
From Old English mōd, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
mode (plural modes)
- Activity within one's mind or brain:
- One's current mindset or feelings; mood:
- Fortitude, braveness, bravery, heart.
- Vainness, proudness; the display of conceit.
- Sadness, lamenting; the state of being sad or upset.
- Angriness, ire, resentment.
- One's mental capacity or intellect; the fount of reasoning.
- One's overall or overarching feelings; an opinion or will.
- What one currently wants or likes; a goal or aim
- One's motivation or willpower; resoluteness.
- (rare) Part of one's thought process.
- 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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Adjective
mode (rare)
- Vain, boastful, conceited.
- Upset, distressed.
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Etymology 2
From Old French mode, from Latin modus.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔːd(ə)/, /ˈmoːd(ə)/
Noun
mode (plural modes) (Late Middle English)
- Grammatical mood or modality.
- (rare) Songs; pieces or sources of music.
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Norman
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
mode f (plural modes)
- (Jersey) fashion
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
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
Adverb
mode
- Only used in à la mode (“a la mode”)
- Only used in a la mode (“a la mode”)
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Adjective
mode
- neuter singular of moden
Pali
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Verb
mode
- inflection of modati (“to rejoice”):
- optative active singular
- first-person singular present/imperative middle
Swedish
Etymology
From French.
Pronunciation
Noun
mode n
- fashion, a fashion trend
- senaste modet ― the latest fashion
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