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Noun mode has 6 senses

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"
--₁ is a kind of property
--₁ has particulars:
artistic style, idiom; drape; fit; form; life style, life-style, lifestyle, modus vivendi; setup; touch, signature; wise
mode - a particular functioning condition or arrangement; "switched from keyboard to voice mode"
--₂ is a kind of condition, status
modality, mode - a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
--₃ is a kind of logical relation

mood, mode, modality - verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
--₄ is a kind of grammatical relation
--₄ has particulars:

indicative mood, indicative, declarative mood, declarative, common mood, fact mood; subjunctive mood, subjunctive; optative mood, optative; imperative mood, imperative, jussive mood; interrogative mood, interrogative

mode, musical mode - any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
--₅ is a kind of diatonic scale
--₅ has particulars:
ecclesiastical mode, Gregorian mode, church mode, medieval mode; Greek mode; major scale, major diatonic scale; minor scale, minor diatonic scale
mode, modal value - the most frequent value of a random variable
--₆ is a kind of average, norm