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   Mode (mōd), 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.”
   
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   The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of doing it may easily be found. Jer. Taylor.
   
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   A table richly spread in regal mode. Milton.
   
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   2. Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.
   
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   The easy, apathetic graces of a man of the mode. Macaulay.
   
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   3. Variety; gradation; degree.  Pope.
   
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   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.
   
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   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.
   
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   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.
   
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   6. (Gram.) Same as Mood.
   
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   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.
   
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   ☞ In modern music, only the major and the minor mode, of whatever key, are recognized.
   
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   8. A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.
   
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   9. (Gram.) the value of the variable in a frequency distribution or probability distribution, at which the probability or frequency has a maximum.  The maximum may be local or global.  Distributions with only one such maximum are called unimodal; with two maxima, bimodal, and with more than two, multimodal.
   
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   Syn. -- Method; manner. See Method.
   
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