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contributor
Noun
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A contributor is a person who donates money to a charity or a cause.
I am a contributor to Red Cross.
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A contributor is a person who supports or participates in a cause, activity or institution.
He was a regular contributor to anti-war protests.
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A contributor is a person who is important to the creation or growth of something.
With her strength and intelligence, she is an important contributor to the local gene pool.
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A contributor is a person who produces articles published in a newspaper, magazine, online publication, etc.
William Safire has been a notable contributor to the opinion page of the New York Times for many years.
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A contributor to something is a partial cause of that thing.
One contributor to the problem is the rapid change in the workforce.
mode
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A mode is a specific way of doing something.
The study combines two different research modes: oral history and written history.
The machine is in warm-up mode right now.
A modern city offers many different modes of transport from bicycle lanes to high speed trains.
Modern medicine must be seen as part of the capitalist mode of production.
There is a difference in English between casual and formal modes of speech.
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A mode is a fashion or style.
She was always dressed in the latest mode.
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A mode is a specific type or form of something.
Heat is a mode of energy transfer, like work, not a substance or other seawater property.
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A mode is specific a kind scale.
The Mixolydian mode is a good way for inducing a bluesey kind of mood.
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The mode is the number that occurs most often in a group of numbers.
In a normal distribution, with large sets, the mean, median and mode will typically be the same value.
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A mode is specific a kind of clause that shows how the speaker feels about it. Modes show whether something is true, probably true, a wish, etc. Usually called mood.
In Finnish, for example, the conditional mode is used both in the main clause and the subordinate.
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The mode of a rock is the different minerals in it.
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A mode is a specific pattern of wave movement.
Under normal circumstances, there is no coupling between the two modes, which have different propagation constants.