📖 M — The English dictionary · page 39

modal — Everyday, meaning 1: (grammar) A modal, or modal verb, is a helping verb such as can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will or would, which shows how sure, possible, allowed or necessary something is.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (maths) Modal means to do with the mode: the modal value is the one that appears most often in a set of data.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (computers) A modal or modal window is a box that pops up on a screen and must be closed before you can go on.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (music) Modal means using musical modes, kinds of scale.↗ Example: «Must», «should» and «might» are modal verbs.↗ · In «I can swim», «can» is a modal verb.↗ · The modal shoe size in our class is 3.↗ · Find the modal colour from the tally chart.↗ · Close the modal window to go back to the game.↗ · Modal verbs show how sure we are about something.↗

mode — Everyday, meaning 1: A way or kind of doing something (mode of transport).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A setting on a machine that makes it work in a particular way (silent mode, sleep mode).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths) The value that appears most often in a set of data.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) A mood or state of mind (holiday mode, panic mode).↗ Example: The mode of 2, 3, 3, 5, 7 is 3.↗ · Walking is my favourite mode of transport.↗ · Put your phone on silent mode in class.↗ · The laptop went into sleep mode.↗ · Dad is in holiday mode already.↗ · Find the mean, median and mode of the scores.↗ · The mode is the shoe size that most people have.↗ · "Done!" repeated the Portuguese duck, "your mode of expressing yourself is not very polite.↗ · Yod Tzaddi Yod Resh Heh ; modes of transliteration vary with different authors.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · These twenty-two letters, the foundations, He arranged as on a sphere, with two hundred and thirty-one modes of entrance.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · For He indeed showed the mode of combination of the letters, each with each, Aleph with all, and all with Aleph.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

model — Everyday, meaning 1: A model is a small copy of something, like a model car, plane or ship.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A model is a person who wears clothes for photos or shows.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A model is a kind or type of a product: «the newest model of the phone».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A model is a good example to copy: «a model pupil».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In science and maths, a model is a drawing, object or plan that shows how something works.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To model is to shape something or to show how to do it.↗ Example: He builds 3 model planes.↗ · The model is 10 times smaller than the ship.↗ · A model car costs $8.↗ · How many models did they make?↗ · We made a model of the solar system.↗ · Draw a bar model to show the problem.↗ · My big sister is my role model.↗ · She made a model of a dog out of clay.↗ · Dad bought the latest model of the car.↗ · They offer for sale the sweetest little toy-houses, models of the mountain cottages in Switzerland.↗ · The [33] seven double letters, בגד כפרת with a duplicity of pronunciation, aspirated and unaspirated, namely: ,תּת ,רּר ,פּפ ,כּכ ,דּד ,גּג ,בּב serve as a model of softness and hardness, strength and weakness.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · It is the model, or archetype, after (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

modelling — Everyday, meaning 1: Making models: small copies of things, or shapes from clay, Plasticine or other materials.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The job of a fashion model: wearing clothes for photos or shows.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science, maths) Making a simplified version or a set of rules (a model) that shows how something works, often on a computer, to predict things.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (behaviour) Showing others how to behave by doing it yourself: «modelling good manners».↗ Example: We did clay modelling in art today.↗ · Weather forecasts use computer modelling.↗ · My cousin does modelling for a clothes catalogue.↗ · The teacher is modelling how to set out a long division.↗ · Modelling the Solar System with balls showed us the sizes of the planets.↗ · Modelling kind behaviour helps younger children learn.↗ · Maths modelling turns a word problem into an equation.↗ · Dad spends weekends modelling a tiny railway.↗

modem — Everyday, meaning 1: A box or device that connects a computer or home network to the internet through a phone line, cable or fibre.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Often, at home, the same box as the router that makes the Wi-Fi.↗ Example: The internet stopped, so Dad switched the modem off and on again.↗ · The modem has blinking green lights.↗ · Our modem is plugged into the phone socket.↗ · In the old days modems made a squealing sound when they connected.↗ · The modem and router are in one box in our hallway.↗ · A modem turns computer signals into signals that can travel along a cable.↗ · The engineer came to fit a new fibre modem.↗

moderate — Everyday, meaning 1: adjective.↗ e.g. Not too much and not too little; medium in size, amount or strength.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: adjective.↗ e.g. Not extreme in opinions, especially in politics.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: verb.↗ e.g. To make or become less strong or extreme.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: verb.↗ e.g. To be in charge of a discussion, debate or online chat and keep it fair and safe.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: verb (UK, school).↗ e.g. To check that teachers' marks on exams are fair.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: noun.↗ e.g. A person with moderate (not extreme) political views.↗ Example: Cook the soup over a moderate heat.↗ · Eat sweets in moderation, not every day.↗ · There will be moderate winds and showers this afternoon.↗ · Thirty minutes of moderate exercise is good for your heart.↗ · Our teacher moderated the class debate so everyone had a turn.↗ · The forum moderator deleted the rude comment.↗ · She was a moderate who wanted both parties to agree.↗ · He moderated his voice when the baby fell asleep.↗ · When you go to the merchant's he will offer you brandy; don't you drink much--drink only a moderate allowance.↗

moderately — Everyday, meaning 1: To a medium amount or degree; fairly but not very: «moderately hot», «moderately difficult».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a sensible, controlled way, not too much: «eat moderately».↗ Example: The test was moderately difficult.↗ · Heat the pan moderately, not on full.↗ · The film was only moderately funny.↗ · Exercise moderately every day.↗ · It was a moderately warm day, about 18 °C.↗ · The shoes were moderately priced.↗ · Our team was moderately successful this season.↗ · The river was moderately deep, up to my knees.↗ · The Soldier drank, but only moderately, and declined to drink any more.↗

moderation — Everyday, meaning 1: Moderation means doing or having something in a sensible amount, not too much.↗ Example: Eat sweets in moderation.↗ · The old man drank his tea with moderation.↗ · Moderation is wiser than greed.↗ · Play games, but do so in moderation.↗

moderator — Everyday, meaning 1: A moderator is a person who runs a discussion or debate and makes sure people follow the rules and take turns.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A moderator is a person who checks posts in an online forum or game chat and removes unkind or unsafe ones.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A moderator checks that marks for exams are fair.↗ Example: The moderator asked each speaker to keep to two minutes.↗ · Report the rude message to a moderator.↗ · The game chat has moderators to keep it friendly.↗ · Our teacher was the moderator of the class debate.↗ · The moderator deleted the unsafe post.↗ · An exam moderator checked the marks.↗

modern — Everyday, meaning 1: Of the present time or recent times, not old.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Using the newest ideas, styles or machines.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (history) Of the period of history after the Middle Ages up to now (modern history).↗ Example: Our school has a modern science lab.↗ · Modern phones can take amazing photos.↗ · In ancient times there were no cars; modern life is very different.↗ · We study modern languages like French and German.↗ · The museum has paintings of modern art.↗ · Grandma thinks modern music is too loud.↗ · It occurs in Swift and in modern Italian folk-lore.↗ · This is the modern classification of the letters into guttural, palatal, lingual, dental and labial sounds.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The most generally accepted modern opinion is that the author was Rabbi Akiba, who lived in the time of the Emperor Hadrian, a.d.↗ 120.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The most generally accepted modern opinion is that the author was Rabbi Akiba, who lived in the time of the Emperor Hadrian, A.D.↗ 120.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

modernised — Everyday, meaning 1: Made modern; changed with new equipment, methods or ideas so it is up to date: «a modernised kitchen».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb, past) Past form of «modernise»: «They modernised the old school».↗ Example: The station was modernised with lifts and new screens.↗ · Our school library has been modernised.↗ · Japan modernised quickly in the late 1800s.↗ · Grandma's modernised kitchen has an induction hob.↗ · The old fairy tale was modernised for the film.↗ · The hospital was modernised last year.↗ · The farm modernised its machines to save time.↗ · The modernised version of the song uses electric guitars.↗ · I have selected the incidents and modernised the spelling; otherwise the droll remains as it was told in Elizabethan times.↗

modestly — Everyday, meaning 1: Without boasting about your own skills or successes: she smiled modestly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Not much; to a small or fair amount: prices rose modestly.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In a way that does not show much of the body: dressed modestly.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Simply, not expensively: they live modestly.↗ Example: «It was nothing,» she said modestly, after scoring three goals.↗ · The house was modestly furnished.↗ · Prices rose modestly this year.↗ · He modestly thanked his team for the win.↗ · The family lived modestly on a small farm.↗ · She dressed modestly for the visit to the temple.↗ · Modestly priced snacks are on sale at the fair.↗

modesty — Everyday, meaning 1: Not boasting about yourself or your skills, even when you are good.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Dressing or behaving in a way that does not draw attention to your body, often for reasons of religion or custom.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Being small or not much: the modesty of their home.↗ Example: Despite her modesty, she was the best player.↗ · «It was nothing,» he said with modesty.↗ · Toad had no modesty at all — he sang songs about himself.↗ · Some people wear long clothes for modesty.↗ · His modesty made everyone like him.↗ · The prize-winner thanked her teachers with great modesty.↗ · False modesty is fishing for compliments.↗ · However he received all the praises bestowed on him with becoming modesty, and prostrating himself, said:↗

modified — Everyday, meaning 1: Changed a little, usually to make it better or to suit a new purpose.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Genetically modified (GM): having its genes changed by scientists.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (grammar) A word is modified when another word describes or limits it, as an adjective does a noun.↗ Example: The scientists modified the design so the bridge was stronger.↗ · This is a modified version of the game with easier levels.↗ · Some crops are genetically modified to resist insects.↗ · We modified our paper plane and it flew twice as far.↗ · In the phrase red apple, the noun apple is modified by red.↗ · The rules were modified after the accident.↗

modify — Everyday, meaning 1: To modify something means to change it a little, usually to improve it or make it fit a purpose.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (grammar) A word modifies another when it describes it or changes its meaning, like an adjective modifying a noun.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) Genetically modified (GM) plants have had their genes changed by scientists.↗ Example: We modified our paper plane so it flew further.↗ · Dad modified the recipe to use less sugar.↗ · The game has been modified for younger players.↗ · In «a red car», «red» modifies «car».↗ · Scientists modify plants to resist pests.↗ · Can you modify your sentence to make it clearer?↗ · The bike was modified with a basket.↗ · After testing, modify your model and test again.↗ · But I have felt myself more at liberty than the translators themselves, who have generally been over-literal, in changing, excising, or modifying the original.↗

module — Everyday, meaning 1: One separate part or unit that fits together with others to make a bigger whole, like a part of a machine or building.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (education) A unit of a course on one topic, often with its own lessons and test: «the fractions module».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (space) A separate part of a spacecraft: «the lunar module».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (computers) A separate part of a program that does one job.↗ Example: This term we start the module on fractions.↗ · The lunar module landed on the Moon in 1969.↗ · The space station is made from many modules joined together.↗ · Each module ends with a short quiz.↗ · The robot kit has a light-sensor module.↗ · The house was built from factory-made modules.↗ · Our science module is about forces.↗ · A computer program can be split into modules.↗

mohawk — Everyday, meaning 1: The Mohawk are a First Nations and Native American people of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, living in what is now New York State, Quebec and Ontario.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Mohawk is the Iroquoian language of the Mohawk people.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A mohawk is a hairstyle with the sides shaved and a strip of hair standing up down the middle; in the UK it is often called a «mohican».↗ Example: The Mohawk are one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee.↗ · Some children in Quebec learn Mohawk at school.↗ · Mohawk ironworkers helped build tall bridges and skyscrapers.↗ · The punk rocker had a bright green mohawk.↗ · My cousin wants a mohawk, but his mum said no.↗ · The Mohawk River flows through New York State.↗