Mode : (noun)
1: how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified
manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic
mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York
style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion"
[syn: manner, style, way, fashion]
2: a particular functioning condition or arrangement; "switched
from keyboard to voice mode"
3: a classification of propositions on the basis of whether
they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility [syn:
modality]
4: verb inflections that express how the action or state is
conceived by the speaker [syn: mood, modality]
5: any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes
within an octave [syn: musical mode]
6: the most frequent value of a random variable [syn: modal
value]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Ionic \I*on"ic\, a. [L. Ionicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? Ionia.]
1. Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians.
2. (Arch.) Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one
of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the
five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth
century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with
spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital.
Ionic dialect (Gr. Gram.), a dialect of the Greek language,
used in Ionia. The Homeric poems are written in what is
designated old Ionic, as distinguished from new Ionic, or
Attic, the dialect of all cultivated Greeks in the period
of Athenian prosperity and glory.
Ionic foot. (Pros.) See Ionic, n., 1.
Ionic, or Ionian, mode (Mus.), an ancient mode,
supposed to correspond with the modern major scale of C.
Ionic sect, a sect of philosophers founded by Thales of
Miletus, in Ionia. Their distinguishing tenet was, that
water is the original principle of all things.
Ionic type, a kind of heavy-faced type (as that of the
following line).
Note: This is Nonpareil Ionic.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Mode : \Mode\, n. [L. modus a measure, due or proper measure,
bound, manner, form; akin to E. mete: cf. F. mode. See
Mete, and cf. Commodious, Mood in grammar, Modus.]
1. Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom;
way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of
dressing.
The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of
doing it may easily be found. --Jer. Taylor.
A table richly spread in regal mode. --Milton.
2. Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the
phrase the mode.
The easy, apathetic graces of a man of the mode.
--Macaulay.
3. Variety; gradation; degree. --Pope.
4. (Metaph.) 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.
Modes I call such complex ideas, which, however
compounded, contain not in them the supposition of
subsisting by themselves, but are considered as
dependencies on, or affections of, substances.
--Locke.
5. (Logic) 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. (Gram.) Same as Mood.
7. (Mus.) 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.
Note: In modern music, only the major and the minor mode, of
whatever key, are recognized.
8. A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.
Syn: Method; manner. See Method.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Potential \Po*ten"tial\, a. [Cf. F. potentiel. See Potency.]
1. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result;
efficacious; influential. [Obs.] ``And hath in his effect
a voice potential.'' --Shak.
2. Existing in possibility, not in actuality. ``A potential
hero.'' --Carlyle.
Potential existence means merely that the thing may
be at ome time; actual existence, that it now is.
--Sir W.
Hamilton.
Potential cautery. See under Cautery.
Potential energy. (Mech.) See the Note under Energy.
Potential mood, or mode (Gram.), that form of the verb
which is used to express possibility, liberty, power,
will, obligation, or necessity, by the use of may, can,
must, might, could, would, or should; as, I may go; he can
write.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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MODEL. A machine made on a small scale to show the manner in which it is to
be worked or employed.
2. The Act of Congress of July 4, 1836, section 6, requires an inventor
who is desirous to take out a patent for his invention, to furnish a model
of his invention, in all cases which admit of representation by model, of a
convenient size to exhibit advantageously its several parts.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Mode :
An object-oriented language.
["The Programming Language Mode: Language Definition and User
Guide", J. Vihavainen, C-1987-50, U Helsinki, 1987].
[{Jargon File]
(1994-10-21)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Mode :
1. A general state, usually used with an adjective describing
the state. Use of the word "mode" rather than "state" implies
that the state is extended over time, and probably also that
some activity characteristic of that state is being carried
out. "No time to hack; I'm in thesis mode."
In its jargon sense, "mode" is most often attributed to
people, though it is sometimes applied to programs and
inanimate objects. In particular, see hack mode, day
mode, night mode, demo mode, fireworks mode, and yoyo
mode; also chat.
2. More technically, a mode is a special state that certain
user interfaces must pass into in order to perform certain
functions. For example, in order to insert characters into a
document in the Unix editor "vi", one must type the "i" key,
which invokes the "Insert" command. The effect of this
command is to put vi into "insert mode", in which typing the
"i" key has a quite different effect (to wit, it inserts an
"i" into the document). One must then hit another special
key, "ESC", in order to leave "insert mode". Nowadays,
modeful interfaces are generally considered losing but
survive in quite a few widely used tools built in less
enlightened times.
[{Jargon File]
(1994-12-22)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Mode : n. [common] A general state, usually used with an adjective
describing the state. Use of the word `mode' rather than `state' implies
that the state is extended over time, and probably also that some
activity characteristic of that state is being carried out. "No time to
hack; I'm in thesis mode." In its jargon sense, `mode' is most often
attributed to people, though it is sometimes applied to programs and
inanimate objects. In particular, see hack mode, day mode, night
mode, demo mode, fireworks mode, and yoyo mode; also talk mode.
One also often hears the verbs `enable' and `disable' used in
connection with jargon modes. Thus, for example, a sillier way of saying
"I'm going to crash" is "I'm going to enable crash mode now". One might
also hear a request to "disable flame mode, please".
In a usage much closer to techspeak, a mode is a special state that
certain user interfaces must pass into in order to perform certain
functions. For example, in order to insert characters into a document in
the Unix editor `vi', one must type the "i" key, which invokes the
"Insert" command. The effect of this command is to put vi into "insert
mode", in which typing the "i" key has a quite different effect (to wit,
it inserts an "i" into the document). One must then hit another special
key, "ESC", in order to leave "insert mode". Nowadays, modeful
interfaces are generally considered losing but survive in quite a few
widely used tools built in less enlightened times.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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