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# mode

noun (a mode, modes)

«mode» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A way or kind of doing something (mode of transport). [tree →](https://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://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/#m4)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/#x1)
- Walking is my favourite mode of transport. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/#x2)
- Put your phone on silent mode in class. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/#x3)
- The laptop went into sleep mode. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/#x4)
- Dad is in holiday mode already. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/#x5)
- Find the mean, median and mode of the scores. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/#x6)
- The mode is the shoe size that most people have. [tree →](https://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://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 Jewish tradition

In Sefer Yetzirah it means a way or pattern of combining the letters.

**Interpretation.** The 231 modes are the pairs you can make from the 22 letters. Tradition reads them as the "gates" through which God shaped all creation by combining letters.

### Examples

- Yod Tzaddi Yod Resh Heh ; modes of transliteration vary with different authors. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mode/#x1)
- These twenty-two letters, the foundations, He arranged as on a sphere, with two hundred and thirty-one modes of entrance. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mode/#x2)
- For He indeed showed the mode of combination of the letters, each with each, Aleph with all, and all with Aleph. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mode/#x3)

### 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).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «mode» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mode/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mode» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/mode.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «mode» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mode/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mode» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/mode.html) on Mova free.