英语词汇“mode”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	mode
释义	mode I. \ˈmōd\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English moede, from Latin modus measure, manner, musical mode — more at mete 1. a. : a musical arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of various fixed schemes of their intervals — see ecclesiastical mode, greek mode b. : a rhythmical scheme; specifically : one of the six metrical patterns in 13th and 14th century music corresponding to the feet (as trochee or dactyl) in classical poetry and expressed in triple time 2. : mood II 2b < the indicative mode of flat assertion alone — Weston La Barre > 3. [Late Latin modus, from Latin, measure, manner] a. : mood II 1a b. : the manner in which a logical proposition is asserted or denied especially as being possible, impossible, necessary, or contingent 4. a. : a particular form or variety of something < a large and overpowering set of brothers and sisters, who were modes or replicas of the same type — Henry Adams > < her anguish of the night before was in another mode — Josephine Pinckney > < separating movement on foot from other modes of traffic — Lewis Mumford > b. : a form, pattern, or manner of expression : style < the only English poet who has adapted it to his needs as a regular poetic mode — W.H.Gardner > < his romanticism (his first literary mode) — Austin Warren > < perhaps the major expressive mode of his day, the mode of the liberal Emersonian sermon — R.P.Blackmur > 5. : a manner of doing something or of performing a particular function or activity < as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress — U.S. Constitution > < new modes of experimentation had to be developed — J.B.Conant > < the Renaissance mode of thinking in symbols — Michael Kitson > 6. : a condition or state of being : a manifestation, form, or manner of arrangement; specifically : a particular form or manifestation of some underlying substance, or of some permanent aspect or attribute of such a substance — compare : mixed mode, simple mode 7. : a state or manner of living : custom < a homogeneous population that departs reluctantly from long-accepted institutions and modes — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > < bound up with regional modes of feeling and local traditions — Van Wyck Brooks > < a sedentary agricultural-hunting mode of life — R.W.Murray > 8. : the value of the variable in a statistical distribution for which the frequency is a maximum : the value that occurs most frequently : the most common value < whenever the talk is of Americans the image is always one of the mode or average person — Saturday Review > 9. : any of various stationary-vibration patterns of which an elastic body or an oscillatory system is capable < the vibration modes and frequencies of the airplane were computed — Wilhemina Kroll > specifically : the vibration pattern of electromagnetic waves (as in lines or wave guides) < in the field of radar theory the various modes in which waves are propagated are designated by different symbols — Television & Radar Encyc. > 10. : the actual mineral composition of a rock as distinguished from the norm 11. crystallog : the type of lattice (as primitive or body-centered) < lattice-mode > Synonyms: see method, state II. noun (-s) Etymology: French, from Latin modus measure, manner — more at mete 1. : a prevailing fashion or style of dress or behavior < harbored the cultural backwash of Europe and looked to its stale romanticism as the mode — H.F.Mooney > < sleeping on top of television sets in the mode of the day for cats — New Yorker > < the contemporary mode > < the newest mode in dresses > < all the mode > 2. : alamode Synonyms: see fashion
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