| 单词 | church mode |
| 释义 | church mode in British Englishnoun music a less common name for mode (sense 3a) mode in British English (məʊd) noun 1. a manner or way of doing, acting, or existing 2. the current fashion or style 3. music a. any of the various scales of notes within one octave, esp any of the twelve natural diatonic scales taken in ascending order used in plainsong, folk song, and art music until 1600 b. (in the music of classical Greece) any of the descending diatonic scales from which the liturgical modes evolved c. either of the two main scale systems in music since 1600 major mode minor mode 4. logic, linguistics another name for modality (sense 3), mood2 (sense 2) 5. philosophy a complex combination of ideas the realization of which is not determined by the component ideas 6. that one of a range of values that has the highest frequency as determined statistically Compare mean3 (sense 4), median (sense 6)7. the quantitative mineral composition of an igneous rock 8. physics one of the possible configurations of a travelling or stationary wave 9. physics one of the fundamental vibrations Word origin C14: from Latin modus measure, mannerchurch mode in American Englishnoun Music a mode belonging to a codified system of modes in use in Gregorian chant and in other music to c1600 Also called: Gregorian mode Word origin [1860–65]This word is first recorded in the period 1860–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: institutionalism, jumping jack, prep, raider, trade nameExamples of 'church mode' in a sentence |
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