mode

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Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun how something is done or how it happens
noun a particular functioning condition or arrangement
noun a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility

From Old French mode (masculine), from Latin modus (“measure, due measure, rhythm, melody”). Doublet of modus.

Their mode of procuring fire was curious. — The World of Ice, R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
"hear!" the English mode of expressing approbation. — Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The mode of plunder is thus perpetrated. — The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido: For the Suppression of Piracy, Henry, Sir Keppel

manner, style, way, fashion

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