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")
mode -- (a particular functioning condition or arrangement; "switched from keyboard to voice mode")
modality, mode -- (a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility)
mood, mode, modality -- (verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker)
mode, musical mode -- (any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave)
mode, modal value -- (the most frequent value of a random variable)
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