Modal vs. Mode
Modaladjective
of, or relating to a mode or modus
Modaladjective
(grammar) of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause
Modaladjective
(music) of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical music
Modaladjective
(logic) of, or relating to the modality between propositions
Modaladjective
(statistics) relating to the statistical mode.
Modaladjective
(computing) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
Modaladjective
(GUI) Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.
Modaladjective
(metaphysics) Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes
Modalnoun
(logic) A modal proposition.
Modalnoun
(linguistics) A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary.
Modalnoun
(grammar) A modal verb.
Modalnoun
(GUI) A modal window, one that cannot be closed until a decision is made.
Modaladjective
Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality.
Modaladjective
Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought, such as the modes of possibility or obligation.
Modaladjective
Pertaining to or denoting mood.
Modalnoun
A modal auxiliary.
Modaladjective
relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution;
Modaladjective
of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode
Modaladjective
relating to or expressing the mood of a verb;
Modenoun
(music) One of several ancient Greek scales.
Modenoun
(music) 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.
Modenoun
A particular means of accomplishing something.
Modenoun
(statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution
Modenoun
A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
Modenoun
(computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data.
Modenoun
(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.
Modenoun
Style or fashion; trend (as in trendy).
Modenoun
Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.
Modenoun
Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.
Modenoun
Variety; gradation; degree.
Modenoun
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.
Modenoun
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.
Modenoun
Same as Mood.
Modenoun
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.
Modenoun
A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.
Modenoun
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.
Modenoun
how something is done or how it happens;
Modenoun
a particular functioning condition or arrangement;
Modenoun
a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
Modenoun
verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
Modenoun
any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
Modenoun
the most frequent value of a random variable
