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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.
command
Noun
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Command, is the power to control people or things.
The information moved from the soldiers up the chain of command right to the president.
Machine-gun fire swept through the general's command post.
With their centralized command structure, it's hard to believe that it could be an accidental action.
We'll look at the problems they face and the military options at their command.
These women reject the idea that they are under their husband's command.
We have not leader. Somebody needs to take command and get us moving.
Saddam Hussein was in command of one of the world's biggest military machines.
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Command is the people or place that orders come from.
This operation was planned carefully from the central command.
Reporters recently spoke to leaders at the Army's Strategic Defense Command.
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A command is a direction for a computer to do something.
A complicated command like "COPY: *. *B:PRNT1 i" could take some time for the computer to complete.
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A command is an order that somebody do something or that something happen.
He gave the command to attack.
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If you have command of something, you understand it well.
He has an excellent command of both French and Spanish.
command
Verb
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If you command someone to do something, you tell them to do it because you have power over them.
He'd first joined the Army in 1969 and commanded a unit in Vietnam.
"That's quite enough of that. Stop it right now," commanded his teacher.
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If you command attention, respect, etc., you get it because you should get it.
The amazing power of weather commands respect and fear.
Her fire-red hair commanded attention.
The wines from 1989 from that area today command high prices.