| 单词 | modal |
| 释义 | modal —modally, adv. /mohd"l/, adj. 1. of or pertaining to mode, manner, or form. 2. Music. a. pertaining to mode, as distinguished from key. b. based on a scale other than major or minor. 3. Also, single modal. Transp. pertaining to or suitable for transportation involving only one form of a carrier, as truck, rail, or ship. Cf. bimodal (def. 3), intermodal. 4. Gram. noting or pertaining to mood. 5. Philos. pertaining to a mode of a thing, as distinguished from one of its basic attributes or from its substance or matter. 6. Logic. exhibiting or expressing some phase of modality. n. 7. See modal auxiliary. [1560-70; < ML modalis. See MODE1, -AL1] |
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