Mode word meaning and definition

[noun] a manner of performance; "a manner of living"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a way of life"
[noun] the most frequent value of a random variable
[noun] any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
[noun] verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
[noun] a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
[noun] a particular functioning condition or arrangement; "switched from keyboard to voice mode"

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

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