1. How something is done or how it happens
   "their nomadic mode of existence";
   - manner, style, way, fashion
    
2. A particular way of operating, functioning, or being used; a setting or option on a device
   "switched from keyboard to voice mode"
    
3. A classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity, possibility or impossibility
   "The statement 'It must be raining' expresses a mode of necessity";
   - modality
    
4. A verb inflection expressing how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
   "The subjunctive mode in 'If I were rich' expresses a hypothetical situation";
   - mood, modality
    
5. Any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
   "The song was composed in the Dorian musical mode";
   - musical mode
    
6. (statistics) the most frequent value of a random variable
   "In the survey of favourite colours, blue was the mode";
   - modal value
    
7. A current fashion or style
   "The latest mode in summer dresses"

Sounds like: mocha, mocmode, m

Derived forms: modes

Type of: condition, diatonic scale, grammatical relation, logical relation, norm, property, status

Encyclopedia: Mode, Illinois