meaning of mode

1. Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.
2.
Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.
3.
Variety; gradation; degree.
4.
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.
5.
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.
Same as Mood.
7.
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.
8.
A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.


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