The Meaning of mode

• (n.) Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.
• (n.) Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.
• (n.) Variety; gradation; degree.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) Same as Mood.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.

Synonyms

manner , style , way , fashion , modality , mood , modality , musical mode , modal value

Homophones

moad , mowed

Rhymes

abode , anode , bestowed , bestrode , blowed , boatload , bode , bowed , brode , busload , carload , caseload , cathode , coad , code , coed , commode , corrode , crossroad , crowed , decode , diode , elbowed , encode , episode , erode , explode , flowed , forebode , goad , goedde , goede , grode , implode , inroad , kanode , knode , knowed , load , lode , m-code , methode , microcode , moad , mowed , nematode , node , ode , out-mode , outmode , overflowed , overload , overrode , owed , payload , railroad , reload , rhoad , rhode , road , rode , roed , rohde , shipload , shoad , showed , shrode , slowed , snowed , sowed , spode , stowed , strode , thode , toad , towed , truckload , unbowed , unload , workload