1. (

• manner ,
• mode ,
• style ,
• way ,
• fashion

) 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" ;

2. (

• mode

) a particular functioning condition or arrangement; "switched from keyboard to voice mode" ;

3. (

• modality ,
• mode

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

4. (

• mood ,
• mode ,
• modality ,

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

5. (

• mode ,
• musical_mode

) any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave ;

6. (

• mode ,
• modal_value

) the most frequent value of a random variable ;