Mode
Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.
Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.
Variety; gradation; degree.
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.
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.
Same as Mood.
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.
A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.
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Mode Quotations
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
Audrey Hepburn
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Aristotle
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
Thomas Paine
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
Marquis de Sade
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
Flannery O'Connor
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Bertrand Russell
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Ezra Pound
Mode Translations
mode in Afrikaans is wyse, wys, mode
mode in Danish is maner, mode
mode in Dutch is manier, wijze, trant
mode in Finnish is tapa, muoti
mode in German is Modus, Betriebsart, Modus, Betrieb, Art
mode in Italian is modo
mode in Latin is modus
mode in Portuguese is modo, modalidade, moda, maneira
mode in Spanish is moda, modo
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