| 单词 | mode |
| 释义 | mode (once / 161 pages) 1n 2n 3n 4n 5n You can describe the specific style of doing something as your mode. If you're in vacation mode, for example, it might mean you say everything in a super-relaxed voice and spend all of your classes daydreaming. From the Latin modus or "manner," it has been popular since the 1400s. Since the 1600s, people have been using it as another word for "fashionable." The French term "a la mode" literally means "in the fashion," or "fashionable," but is more commonly used to describe as specific way of serving dessert (ice cream on the side). WORD FAMILYmode: modal, modes+/modal: bimodal, modality, modally, modals/modality: modalities USAGE EXAMPLESAn hour after the game, after the trophy ceremony, the senior was still in defensive-back mode. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) With money markets in full deleveraging mode now after the U.S. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) “People are in crisis mode,” acknowledged one executive. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n how something is done or how it happens their nomadic mode of existence Syn|Hypo|Hyper fashion, manner, modality, style, way artistic style, idiom the style of a particular artist or school or movement drapethe manner in which fabric hangs or falls fitthe manner in which something fits forma particular mode in which something is manifested life style, life-style, lifestyle, modus vivendia manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes setupthe way something is organized or arranged signature, toucha distinguishing style wisea way of doing or being responsethe manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals baroque, baroquenesselaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century classical stylethe artistic style of ancient Greek art with its emphasis on proportion and harmony order(architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans rococofanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century High Renaissancethe artistic style of early 16th century painting in Florence and Rome; characterized by technical mastery and heroic composition and humanistic content treatmenta manner of dealing with something artistically fast lanea hectic and pressured lifestyle often characterized by recklessness or dissipation free livinga lifestyle given to easy indulgence of the appetites vanity faira vain and frivolous lifestyle especially in large cities common touchthe property of appealing to people in general (usually by appearing to have qualities in common with them) hangthe way a garment hangs neoclassicismrevival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation classicalism, classicisma movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms Romantic Movement, Romanticisma movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization property a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class 2n a particular functioning condition or arrangement 2switched from keyboard to voice mode Syn|Hyper modality condition, status a state at a particular time n verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper modality, mood common mood, declarative, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact subjunctive, subjunctive mooda mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible optative, optative mooda mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs imperative, imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mooda mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior interrogative, interrogative moodsome linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood grammatical relation a linguistic relation established by grammar n any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave 4Syn|Hypo|Hyper musical mode Gregorian mode, church mode, ecclesiastical mode, medieval mode any of a system of modes used in Gregorian chants up until 1600; derived historically from the Greek mode Greek modeany of the descending diatonic scales in the music of classical Greece major diatonic scale, major scalea diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 3rd and 4th and 7th and 8th minor diatonic scale, minor scalea diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th C major, C major scale, scale of C major(music) the major scale having no sharps or flats diatonic scale a scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones n a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility 5Syn|Hyper modality logical relation a relation between propositions n the most frequent value of a random variable Syn|Hyper modal value average, norm a statistic describing the location of a distribution |
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