mode

1. How something is done or how it happens (synset 104936080)
   "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"
   is a type of: property - a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class
   subtypes:

   • artistic style, idiom - the style of a particular artist or school or movement
   • drape - the manner in which fabric hangs or falls
   • fit - the manner in which something fits
   • form - a particular mode in which something is manifested
   • life style, life-style, lifestyle, modus vivendi - a manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes
   • setup - the way something is organized or arranged
   • signature, touch - a distinguishing style
   • wise - a way of doing or being
   • response - the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals
   same as: fashion, manner, style, way
2. A particular functioning condition or arrangement (synset 113946962)
   "switched from keyboard to voice mode"
   is a type of: condition, status - a state at a particular time
3. A classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility (synset 113824846)
   is a type of: logical relation - a relation between propositions
   same as: modality
4. Verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker (synset 113823636)
   is a type of: grammatical relation - a linguistic relation established by grammar
   subtypes:

   • common mood, declarative, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood - a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
   • subjunctive, subjunctive mood - a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible
   • optative, optative mood - a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs
   • imperative, imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mood - a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
   • interrogative, interrogative mood - some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood
   same as: modality, mood
5. Any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave (synset 106874680)
   is a type of: diatonic scale - a scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones
   subtypes:

   • church mode, ecclesiastical mode, gregorian mode, medieval mode - any of a system of modes used in Gregorian chants up until 1600; derived historically from the Greek mode
   • greek mode - any of the descending diatonic scales in the music of classical Greece
   • major diatonic scale, major scale - a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 3rd and 4th and 7th and 8th
   • minor diatonic scale, minor scale - a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th
   same as: musical mode
6. The most frequent value of a random variable (synset 106033024)
   referred to in: statistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
   is a type of: average, norm - a statistic describing the location of a distribution
   same as: modal value

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