mode

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See also: Mode, mòde, and møde

English[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Old French mode (masculine), from Latin modus (“measure, due measure, rhythm, melody”). Doublet of modus.

Noun[edit]

mode (plural modes)

  1. (music) One of several ancient Greek scales.
  2. (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.
  3. 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.
  4. A particular state of being, or frame of mind.
    After a series of early setbacks, her political campaign is in crisis mode.
  5. (statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution
  6. (mathematics, physics) A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
  7. (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
  8. (electronics) A series of settings on a device used for a specific purpose.
    airplane mode; night mode
  9. (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[1]:
      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[2]:
      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[3]:
      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.
  10. (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
  11. (philosophy) That which exists only as a quality of substance.
  12. (textiles) In lace-making, a small decorative piece inserted into a pattern.
  13. (textiles) The openwork between the solid parts of a pattern.
  14. (obsolete) A woman's mantle with a hood.
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Translations[edit]
grammatical mood — see grammatical mood

Etymology 2[edit]

From French mode f (“fashion, trend”).

Noun[edit]

mode (plural modes)

  1. Style or fashion; popular trend.
    Her wardrobe is always in mode.
    • 1922, Edith Van Dyne, Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman (chapter 4)
      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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Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin modus. Doublet of moda, a borrowing through French.

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Noun[edit]

mode m (plural modes)

  1. modus
  2. way
  3. (grammar) mood

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Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French mode, from Latin modus (“manner, method”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /moːdə/, [ˈmoːðə]

Noun[edit]

mode c (singular definite moden, plural indefinite moder)

  1. fashion

Inflection[edit]

Declension of mode
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative mode moden moder moderne
genitive modes modens moders modernes

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Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Middle French mode, from Latin modus.

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Noun[edit]

mode f (plural modes, diminutive modetje n)

  1. 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.
  2. (obsolete) custom, tradition, manner

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Descendants[edit]

  • Afrikaans: mode
  • → Indonesian: mode
  • → Sranan Tongo: modo
    • → Caribbean Hindustani: modo
    • → Galibi Carib: moto
  • → West Frisian: moade

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Esperanto[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From modo +‎ -e.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈmode]
  • Rhymes: -ode
  • Hyphenation: mo‧de

Adverb[edit]

mode

  1. fashionably
    • 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," 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," 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.

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Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Clipping of moderaattori

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmode/, [ˈmo̞de̞]
  • Rhymes: -ode
  • Syllabification(key): mo‧de

Noun[edit]

mode

  1. (colloquial) Synonym of moderaattori.

Declension[edit]

Inflection of mode (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative mode modet
genitive moden modejen
partitive modea modeja
illative modeen modeihin
singular plural
nominative mode modet
accusative nom. mode modet
gen. moden
genitive moden modejen
modeinrare
partitive modea modeja
inessive modessa modeissa
elative modesta modeista
illative modeen modeihin
adessive modella modeilla
ablative modelta modeilta
allative modelle modeille
essive modena modeina
translative modeksi modeiksi
instructive — modein
abessive modetta modeitta
comitative — modeineen
Possessive forms of mode (type nalle)
possessor singular plural
1st person modeni modemme
2nd person modesi modenne
3rd person modensa

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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.

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Noun[edit]

mode f (plural modes)

  1. fashion, trend
    Il faut suivre la mode en France.
    You've got to follow fashion in France.

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Noun[edit]

mode m (plural modes)

  1. 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?
  2. (grammar) mode, mood
    Synonym: mœuf
  3. (statistics) mode (most common value)

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Indonesian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈmo.də]
  • Hyphenation: mo‧dê

Noun[edit]

modê (plural mode-mode, first-person possessive modeku, second-person possessive modemu, third-person possessive modenya)

  1. mode, style or fashion; popular trend.
    Synonym: fesyen
  2. mode,
    1. (electronics) a series of settings on a device used for a specific purpose.
    2. (computing) one of various related sets of rules for processing data.

Alternative forms[edit]

  • mod (electronics, computing, Standard Malay)

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Italian[edit]

Noun[edit]

mode f

  1. plural of moda

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Latin[edit]

Noun[edit]

mode

  1. vocative singular of modus

Middle English[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Old English mōd, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mode (plural modes)

  1. Activity within one's mind or brain:
    1. One's current mindset or feelings; mood:
      1. Fortitude, braveness, bravery, heart.
      2. Vainness, proudness; the display of conceit.
      3. Sadness, lamenting; the state of being sad or upset.
      4. Angriness, ire, resentment.
    2. One's mental capacity or intellect; the fount of reasoning.
    3. One's overall or overarching feelings; an opinion or will.
    4. What one currently wants or likes; a goal or aim
    5. One's motivation or willpower; resoluteness.
    6. (rare) Part of one's thought process.
  2. A person's nature or temperament; that which defines one's behaviour.
  3. One's visible nature; the appearance of someone.
  4. (rare) One's actions as a whole; the way one behaves.
  5. (rare) Writing or speaking; communication.
  6. (rare) An enterprise or endeavour.
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Adjective[edit]

mode (rare)

  1. Vain, boastful, conceited.
  2. Upset, distressed.
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Old French mode, from Latin modus.

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔːd(ə)/, /ˈmoːd(ə)/

Noun[edit]

mode (plural modes) (Late Middle English)

  1. Grammatical mood or modality.
  2. (rare) Songs; pieces or sources of music.
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Norman[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

mode f (plural modes)

  1. (Jersey) fashion

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

Adverb[edit]

mode

  1. Only used in à la mode (“a la mode”)
  2. Only used in a la mode (“a la mode”)

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

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Adjective[edit]

mode

  1. neuter singular of moden

Pali[edit]

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Verb[edit]

mode

  1. inflection of modati (“to rejoice”):
    1. optative active singular
    2. first-person singular present/imperative middle

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mode n

  1. fashion, a fashion trend
    senaste modet ― the latest fashion

Declension[edit]

Declension of mode 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mode modet moden modena
Genitive modes modets modens modenas

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