MODES Synonyms

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

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

• a particular sense

• a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment

• how something is done or how it happens

• characteristic or habitual practice

• the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior

• consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode

• make out of components (often in an improvising manner)

• how something is done or how it happens

• a way of acting or behaving

• a kind

• how something is done or how it happens

• a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period

• a particular kind (as to appearance)

• the popular taste at a given time

• (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma

• editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display

• distinctive and stylish elegance

• a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving

• a slender bristlelike or tubular process

• designate by an identifying term

• make consistent with a certain fashion or style

• make consistent with certain rules of style

• how something is done or how it happens

• to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end

• a line leading to a place or point

• the condition of things generally

• a course of conduct

• any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another

• a journey or passage

• space for movement

• the property of distance in general

• doing as one pleases or chooses

• a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'

• a portion of something divided into shares

• to a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States)

• the most frequent value of a random variable

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