Modes

Word MODES
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Definitions and meanings of "Modes"

What do we mean by modes?

One of several ancient Greek scales.

One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.

A particular means of accomplishing something.

A particular state of being, or frame of mind.

The most frequently occurring value in a distribution

A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.

One of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours.

A series of settings on a device used for a specific purpose.

A variation in gameplay, such as a difficulty level.

(grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.

That which exists only as a quality of substance.

In lace-making, a small decorative piece inserted into a pattern.

The openwork between the solid parts of a pattern.

A woman's mantle with a hood.

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The word "modes" in example sentences

Further, I wish to premise that by the use of the term modes of motion, in lieu of energy, the third Rule of Philosophy will be fulfilled. ❋ William George Hooper (N/A)

But when we consider substance as affected or varied by them, we use the term modes; when from this variation it may be denominated of such a kind, we adopt the term qualities [to designate the different modes which cause it to be so named]; and, finally, when we simply regard these modes as in the substance, we call them attributes. ❋ Ren�� Descartes (1623)

The video, which also shows off new massively multiplayer “team” modes, is after the jump. ❋ Unknown (2010)

| Reply this game, with its 3 modes, is better than any final fantasy game. look into your heart and know the truth. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Lack of realistic abort modes is what doomed the shuttle. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I couldn't take it, the fly wheels on the canons for shooting modes is just the way it should work. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The level of technological improvement available to the mass transit modes is also possible with other competing modes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Discussing the issue, he remarked, the fact that Lucas has allowed certain modes of fan cinema to gain public visibility and rejected others, has strong gender dimensions …. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The emphasis on self-recognition and reflexivity — an ability to distance oneself from one's own formative discourses that is modeled and made possible by certain modes of "literary" reading — is what ties this vision of cosmopolitanism to secularism. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the beginning that meant that the argument was with certain modes of formalism, and the main effort in my writing went into making the painting fully part of a world of transactions, interests, disputes, beliefs, “politics.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Transgressive literature works more subtly, by chipping away at certain modes of thinking that contribute to the perpetuation of oppressive political structures. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In certain modes of strange fiction the subjunctivity of "this could not be happening" is maintained in order to create and exploit a tension between the incredible and the reader's suspension of disbelief, a sense of estrangement, of cognitive dissonance. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

It's a way of offering different narratives in modes that kick against each other -- epic/poetic, sf/fantastic, mimetic/historic -- without going all metafictional and thereby risking the dreaded Pomo Disease of irony, arch knowingness. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

The thing about trying to collapse distinction between fantasy and science fiction modes is that there are lots of genres where that also collapses critical distinctions. ❋ Hal Duncan (2005)

Certain modes of music were to be kept out of Plato's ideal State because they evoked sorrowful or ungraceful or indolent feelings (Socrates: "When modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them"). ❋ Unknown (1997)

Even the main idea of differential left and right cognitive modes is still under challenge in some quarters in favor of the view that the right hemisphere specialities are primarily praxic or 'manipulospatial' in character and that higher cognition and self awareness are associated mainly with language in the left hemisphere (34, 35). ❋ Unknown (1981)

The Cori enzymes made this synthesis possible, because the enzymes favour certain modes of linkage. ❋ Unknown (1964)

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