mode
noun
[ məʊd ]
• a way or manner in which something occurs or is experienced, expressed, or done.
• "his preferred mode of travel was a kayak"
Similar:
manner,
way,
fashion,
means,
method,
system,
style,
approach,
technique,
procedure,
process,
methodology,
modus operandi,
form,
routine,
practice,
• a fashion or style in clothes, art, literature, etc.
• "in the Seventies the mode for active wear took hold"
Similar:
fashion,
vogue,
current/latest style,
style,
look,
trend,
latest thing,
latest taste,
craze,
rage,
fad,
general tendency,
convention,
custom,
practice,
dernier cri,
• the value that occurs most frequently in a given set of data.
• a set of musical notes forming a scale and from which melodies and harmonies are constructed.
Origin:
late Middle English (in the musical and grammatical senses): from Latin modus ‘measure’, from an Indo-European root shared by mete1; compare with mood2.
