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mod

/mɒd/

noun

Meaning

  • An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.

  • A 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker.

  • A modification.

  • An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.

  • A moderator, for example on a discussion forum.

  • A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).

  • A moderately difficult route.

  • (in the plural, Oxford University) Moderations: university examinations generally taken in the first year.

verb

Meaning

  • To modify (an object) from its original condition, typically for the purposes of individualizing and/or enhancing the performance of the object.

    "His friends were particularly impressed with the way he modded his Ruckus."

  • To moderate; to silence or punish (a rule-breaking user) on a forum, especially when done by a moderator.

    "Don't break the rules or you'll be modded."

Synonyms

trick,
trick out

noun

Meaning

  • One of several ancient Greek scales.

  • One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.

  • A particular means of accomplishing something.

    "What was the mode of entry?"

  • A particular state of being, or frame of mind.

    "After a series of early setbacks, her political campaign is in crisis mode."

  • The most frequently occurring value in a distribution

  • A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.

  • One of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours.

    "In insert mode, characters typed are directly inserted into the buffer."

  • A series of settings on a device used for a specific purpose.

    "airplane mode; night mode"

  • A variation in gameplay, such as a difficulty level.

  • (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.

  • That which exists only as a quality of substance.

  • In lace-making, a small decorative piece inserted into a pattern.

  • The openwork between the solid parts of a pattern.

  • A woman's mantle with a hood.

Synonyms

grammatical mood,
mood

noun

Meaning

  • Style or fashion; popular trend.

    "Her wardrobe is always in mode."

adjective

Meaning

  • Not excessive; acting in moderation

    "a moderate Calvinist"

  • Mediocre

  • Average priced; standard-deal

  • Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.

    "a moderate winter"

  • Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.

noun

Meaning

  • The base with respect to which a congruence is computed.

  • The absolute value of a complex number.

  • A coefficient that expresses how much of a certain property is possessed by a certain substance.

  • An operator placed between two numbers, to get the remainder of the division of those numbers.

Synonyms

%,
mod