· how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion"
Synonym(s): manner, style, way, fashion
Hypernym(s): property
· a particular functioning condition or arrangement; "switched from keyboard to voice mode"
Hypernym(s): condition, status
· a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
Synonym(s): modality
Hypernym(s): logical_relation
· verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
Hypernym(s): grammatical_relation
· any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
Synonym(s): musical_mode
Hypernym(s): diatonic_scale
· the most frequent value of a random variable
Synonym(s): modal_value