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instant
Noun
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An instant is a very short time.
She looked at me and for an instant, I thought she was her mother.
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Instant mathx/math is mathx/math that is ready, or happens, very quickly (in an instant).
I don't like instant coffee, but that's usually what I drink.
With his first book, he was an instant success.
arm
Noun
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One of the upper limbs people have; arms start at the shoulder and go down to the wrist, sometimes the hand is included.
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A weapon.
arm
Verb
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To give or sell weapons to a person, group, or country.
Our taxes pay to arm the military.
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To get a tool or a weapon ready for action; to activate.
Remember to arm the alarm system.
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.