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message
Noun
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A message is information that is sent between living things and is sent from one person to the other. There are some types of message, like phone message and subliminal message.
On his desk there was a message from Jack to call home.
Can you give Joan the message that I called?
message
Verb
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If you message someone, you send them a note or letter or e-mail; you message them.
Can you please message me the directions?
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.