7 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ionic \I*on"ic\, a. [L. Ionicus Gr ?, fr ? Ionia.]
1. Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians.
2. (Arch.) Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one
of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the
five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth
century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with
spiral volutes. See Illust. of {Capital}.
{Ionic dialect} (Gr. Gram.), a dialect of the Greek language,
used in Ionia. The Homeric poems are written in what is
designated old Ionic, as distinguished from new Ionic, or
Attic, the dialect of all cultivated Greeks in the period
of Athenian prosperity and glory.
{Ionic foot}. (Pros.) See {Ionic}, n., 1.
{Ionic}, or {Ionian}, {mode} (Mus.), an ancient mode,
supposed to correspond with the modern major scale of C.
{Ionic sect}, a sect of philosophers founded by Thales of
Miletus, in Ionia. Their distinguishing tenet was that
water is the original principle of all things
{Ionic type}, a kind of heavy-faced type (as that of the
following line).
Note: This is Nonpareil Ionic.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mode \Mode\, n. [L. modus a measure, due or proper measure,
bound, manner, form akin to E. mete: cf F. mode. See
{Mete}, and cf {Commodious}, {Mood} in grammar, {Modus}.]
1. Manner of doing or being method; form fashion; custom;
way style; as the mode of speaking; the mode of
dressing.
The duty of itself being resolved on the mode of
doing it may easily be found --Jer. Taylor.
A table richly spread in regal mode. --Milton.
2. Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the
phrase the mode.
The easy, apathetic graces of a man of the mode.
--Macaulay.
3. Variety; gradation; degree. --Pope.
4. (Metaph.) 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}.
Modes I call such complex ideas, which however
compounded, contain not in them the supposition of
subsisting by themselves, but are considered as
dependencies on or affections of substances.
--Locke.
5. (Logic) 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.
6. (Gram.) Same as {Mood}.
7. (Mus.) 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.
Note: In modern music, only the major and the minor mode, of
whatever key, are recognized.
8. A kind of silk. See {Alamode}, n.
Syn: Method; manner. See {Method}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Potential \Po*ten"tial\, a. [Cf. F. potentiel. See {Potency}.]
1. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result;
efficacious; influential. [Obs.] ``And hath in his effect
a voice potential.'' --Shak.
2. Existing in possibility, not in actuality. ``A potential
hero.'' --Carlyle.
Potential existence means merely that the thing may
be at ome time; actual existence, that it now is
--Sir W.
Hamilton.
{Potential cautery}. See under {Cautery}.
{Potential energy}. (Mech.) See the Note under {Energy}.
{Potential mood}, or {mode} (Gram.), that form of the verb
which is used to express possibility, liberty, power,
will obligation, or necessity, by the use of may can,
must might could would or should as I may go he can
write.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
mode
n 1: a manner of performance; "a manner of living"; "in the
characteristic New York style"; "a way of life" [syn: {manner},
{style}, {way}, {fashion}]
2: a classification of propositions on the basis of whether
they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility [syn:
{modality}]
3: verb inflections that express how the action or state is
conceived by the speaker [syn: {mood}, {modality}]
4: any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes
within an octave [syn: {musical mode}]
5: the most frequent value of a random variable
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
mode n. [common] A general state, usually used with an
adjective describing the state. Use of the word `mode' rather than
`state' implies that the state is extended over time, and probably also
that some activity characteristic of that state is being carried out "No
time to hack; I'm in thesis mode." In its jargon sense `mode' is most
often attributed to people, though it is sometimes applied to programs
and inanimate objects. In particular, see {hack mode}, {day mode}, {night
mode}, {demo mode}, {fireworks mode}, and {yoyo mode}; also {talk mode}.
One also often hears the verbs `enable' and `disable' used in
connection with jargon modes. Thus for example, a sillier way of
saying "I'm going to crash" is "I'm going to enable crash mode now".
One might also hear a request to "disable flame mode, please".
In a usage much closer to techspeak a mode is a special state that
certain user interfaces must pass into in order to perform certain
functions. For example, in order to insert characters into a document
in the Unix editor `vi', one must type the i" key, which invokes the
Insert" command. The effect of this command is to put vi into "insert
mode", in which typing the i" key has a quite different effect (to
wit, it inserts an i" into the document). One must then hit another
special key, "ESC", in order to leave "insert mode". Nowadays, modeful
interfaces are generally considered {losing} but survive in quite a few
widely used tools built in less enlightened times.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
Mode
An {object-oriented language}.
["The Programming Language Mode: Language Definition and User
Guide", J. Vihavainen C-1987-50, U Helsinki, 1987].
[{Jargon File}]
(1994-10-21)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
mode
1. A general state, usually used with an adjective describing
the state. Use of the word mode" rather than state" implies
that the state is extended over time, and probably also that
some activity characteristic of that state is being carried
out "No time to hack; I'm in thesis mode."
In its jargon sense mode" is most often attributed to
people, though it is sometimes applied to programs and
inanimate objects. In particular, see {hack mode}, {day
mode}, {night mode}, {demo mode}, {fireworks mode}, and {yoyo
mode}; also {chat}.
2. More technically, a mode is a special state that certain
user interfaces must pass into in order to perform certain
functions. For example, in order to insert characters into a
document in the Unix editor "vi", one must type the i" key,
which invokes the Insert" command. The effect of this
command is to put vi into "insert mode", in which typing the
i" key has a quite different effect (to wit, it inserts an
i" into the document). One must then hit another special
key, "ESC", in order to leave "insert mode". Nowadays,
modeful interfaces are generally considered {losing} but
survive in quite a few widely used tools built in less
enlightened times.
[{Jargon File}]
(1994-12-22)
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