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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 modesAmerican 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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