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