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graphical
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adjective
(= graphic)
relating to or presented by a graph
a graphic presentation of the data
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adjective
(= graphic)
written or drawn or engraved
graphic symbols
build
Verb
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If you build something, you make it out of pieces of other things.
I built the house with wood and stone.
When the old bridge was built, the cars were slower.
It's not easy to find the people who build bombs.
We drove down the newly built roads.
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If you build something, you make it bigger, stronger, or better.
This is a new idea that others can build upon.
This plan gives us a foundation on which to build better, long-term water-sharing agreements.
Baseball players drink milk to build muscles.
The school is building a reputation for good teaching.
build
Noun
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Your build is the shape of your body.
He was a man of medium build with short hair.
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A build is a version of a computer program.
I downloaded the latest build last night to test it.
mode
Noun
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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.