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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.
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The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of
doing it may easily be found. --Jer. Taylor.
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A table richly spread in regal mode. --Milton.
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2. Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the
phrase the mode.
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The easy, apathetic graces of a man of the mode.
--Macaulay.
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3. Variety; gradation; degree. --Pope.
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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}.
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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.
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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.
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6. (Gram.) Same as {Mood}.
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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.
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Note: In modern music, only the major and the minor mode, of
whatever key, are recognized.
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8. A kind of silk. See {Alamode}, n.
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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}.
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Syn: Method; manner. See {Method}.
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