Mood vs. Mode

Moodnoun

A mental or emotional state, composure.

Moodnoun

A sullen mental state; a bad mood.

Moodnoun

A disposition to do something.

Moodnoun

A prevalent atmosphere or feeling.

Moodnoun

Courage, heart, valor; also vim and vigor.

Moodnoun

(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.

Moodnoun

Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).

Moodnoun

Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, conditional, hypothetical, obligatory, imperitive, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the imperitive mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode.

Moodnoun

Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.

Moodnoun

a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;

Moodnoun

the prevailing psychological state;

Moodnoun

verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

Modenoun

(music) One of several ancient Greek scales.

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(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.

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(statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution

Modenoun

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

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(computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data.

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(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.

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Style or fashion; trend (as in trendy).

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Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.

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Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.

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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.

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Same as Mood.

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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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A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.

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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;

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a particular functioning condition or arrangement;

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a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility

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verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

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any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave

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the most frequent value of a random variable