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# mode

«mode» in Mova's school dictionary: **A way or kind of doing something (mode of transport)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a mode, modes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A way or kind of doing something (mode of transport). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/#m1)

2) A setting on a machine that makes it work in a particular way (silent mode, sleep mode). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/#m2)

3) (maths) The value that appears most often in a set of data. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/#m3)

4) (informal) A mood or state of mind (holiday mode, panic mode). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/#x1)
- Walking is my favourite mode of transport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/#x2)
- Put your phone on silent mode in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/#x3)
- The laptop went into sleep mode. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/#x4)
- Dad is in holiday mode already. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/#x5)
- Find the mean, median and mode of the scores. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/#x6)
- The mode is the shoe size that most people have. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/#x7)
- "Done!" repeated the Portuguese duck, "your mode of expressing yourself is not very polite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily/11/)
- [Night mode on a phone has not been shown to fix the sleep problem on its own.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/35-screens-eyes-and-sleep/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mode» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.