mode
part of speech
noun (a mode, modes)
meaning for a pupil
1) A way or kind of doing something (mode of transport). tree →
2) A setting on a machine that makes it work in a particular way (silent mode, sleep mode). tree →
3) (maths) The value that appears most often in a set of data. tree →
4) (informal) A mood or state of mind (holiday mode, panic mode). tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths: mean, median, mode and range describe data; the mode is the most common value. In geography: modes of transport (bus, car, bike, walking). In everyday life: put your phone on silent mode. Phrases: mode of transport, airplane mode, in ... mode.
examples
- The mode of 2, 3, 3, 5, 7 is 3. tree →
- Walking is my favourite mode of transport. tree →
- Put your phone on silent mode in class. tree →
- The laptop went into sleep mode. tree →
- Dad is in holiday mode already. tree →
- Find the mean, median and mode of the scores. tree →
- The mode is the shoe size that most people have. tree →
- "Done!" repeated the Portuguese duck, "your mode of expressing yourself is not very polite. tree →
note
Countable. Maths: the mode is the MOST FREQUENT value, not the biggest. A set can have more than one mode, or none if all values appear once. Do not confuse mode (most often), median (middle value in order) and mean (total ÷ count).
In the corpora
- Some apps have a mode for younger users with extra safety; it helps but is not perfect.
- Night mode on a phone has not been shown to fix the sleep problem on its own.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «mode» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.