(n.) Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.
(n.) Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.
(n.) Variety; gradation; degree.
(n.) Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter.
(n.) The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood.
(n.) Same as Mood.
(n.) The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music.
(n.) A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
(2) This mode of treatment remains appropriate for cases where antibiotics are ineffective and surgery impracticable.
(3) The pH of ST solutions varied with the mode of oxygenation as follows: 7.9-8.2 in Groups I and IV; 8.7-8.9 in Groups II and V; 7.1-7.4 in Groups III and VI.
(4) The possible significance of this finding in relation to the mode of phosphorylation and glycosylation in vivo is discussed.
(5) These results are discussed in the light of the mode of action of the substances used.
(6) Quantitative measurements of image contrast were carried out for B-mode images of anechoic spheres (cysts) embedded in a random scattering medium.
(7) Average temperature changes observed were less than 1 degree C. The present study demonstrates that the electrically evoked response in mammalian brain can be altered by ultrasound in a non-thermal, non-cavitational mode, and that such effects are potentially reversible.
(8) With respect to the K current, however, they clearly differ from the AP's in their mode of suppression.
(9) The mode of ribosome degradation under this condition is discussed in terms of differential appearance of these intermediate particles.
(10) The mode of action is as yet undetermined, but intracellular vacuoles may be the primary targets.
(11) Some aspects of the life structure, of course, are also unconscious, namely, those having to do with attempted solutions to core personality conflicts and those reflecting modes of ego functioning.
(12) Thus, hyp does not appear to affect metastable variation but does affect the level of transcription of the pilA gene in the ON (transcribed) mode.
(13) This paper details the circumstances of some of the cases and cites precautions to be taken in the use of this therapeutic mode.
(14) It is assumed that the mild analgesia produced by acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) and indomethacin is due to a common mode of action, namely inhibition of the cyclo-oxygenase reaction in the synthesis of prostaglandins.
(15) 25 patients affected by Primary Hypothyroidism and a control group of 25 subjects were studied with M-mode and Two-dimensional echocardiography.
(16) A pilot study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of gas in the puerperal endometrial cavity and to determine whether this finding has any relationship to the mode of delivery or to the development of puerperal endometritis.
(17) Cryosurgical treatment of chronic vasomotor rhinitis provides a safe, effective and uncomplicated mode of management for this very common otolaryngologic disorder.
(18) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
(19) On the other hand, the compound was more potent on secondary or late stage than on primary stage of inflammation, and to some extent showed the mode of action seen with steroid antiinflammatory drugs.
(20) One important consequence of the conservative mode of replication is that cellular enzymes never gain access to the reovirus genome but only to its ssRNA precursors.
Mope
Definition:
(v. i.) To be dull and spiritless.
(v. t.) To make spiritless and stupid.
(n.) A dull, spiritless person.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 28-year-old was having a drink with a friend outside the Draft House pub at the corner of Goodge Street and Charlotte Street when he heard the sound of a moped crashing.
(2) In a one year prospective investigation, the circumstances and sequelae of 75 moped accidents were registered.
(3) Fatal and severe injury crashes for scooters and mopeds in California for 1985 were compared with those for motorcycles during the same year.
(4) More than once he found himself half-wishing that Emadeddin would fall off his moped and solve everyone's problems.
(5) A gang of six men on three mopeds pulled up outside the Dorchester hotel in Mayfair, central London, in the early hours of Thursday morning and three of them smashed their way through the front door and broke into display cabinets.
(6) Scott W fumes: "In these circumstances, playing Mascherano in midfield is like wearing a suit of full-plate armour on a moped.
(7) Two other patients sustained thigh deformities after a moped and a skiing accident, respectively, and were operated on under general anesthesia.
(8) When you carry on moping, and whining like Charlie Brown after listening to the whole Smiths catalog at every single club you've played, it's hard to believe Tristelme was ever destined for true greatness.
(9) The number of those injured in motorcycle accidents tripled; the number of moped accident victims slightly decreased in the period studied.
(10) In a consecutive series of 132 motorcycle and moped riders killed in 1977-1983 in southern Sweden and examined post mortem, almost half of the fatal injuries of the head and neck occurred remote from the point of impact, namely certain intracranial injuries without fractures, ring fractures of the base of the skull, disruption of the junction of the head and neck and injuries of the cervical spine.
(11) Moments later, the moped also crashed into a parked car and the two men fell off.
(12) A further 27 were riding a "powered two-wheeler" (motorbikes, moped, scooters), 19 were in cars, 14 were cyclists and the remainder were in a taxi, bus or coach, or heavy goods vehicle.
(13) If acting had not worked out, Hepburn would never have moped.
(14) Julie, Grayson tells us, was born in Canvey Island in 1953, and was raised in social housing, moving upwards and outwards in more ways than one before her eventual death, run over by a pizza-delivery moped.
(15) It would be no surprise to Roux watchers if he 'leaked' the story of Boli's moped himself.
(16) He was hit 11 times before his assailants escaped on a moped.
(17) Women nipped about on mopeds in summer frocks instead of the usual leather clobber; sales of bikes and scooter below the 125cc limit - which allowed you unlimited travel if you had L-plates - went up by a quarter.
(18) In this paper we describe a case, where a healthy 35-year-old man developed a lethal myocardial infarction 8 days after a chest trauma caused by a moped.
(19) MOPED establishes the patterns of synthesis of a large number of polypeptides during a crucial period of development.
(20) I was very surprised, but it stopped me moping at home.