Englishfor English speakers
text
Noun
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Text is written language (often academic).
The text is OK, but we need to change the graphics before we publish.
You can see the text of what they are saying there at the bottom of the screen.
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A text is a textbook (American English).
Did you buy the text for the accounting course?
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A text is a message from a cell phone.
I'll give you a text on your phone about tonight's concert.
text
Verb
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If you text someone, you send them a text message on their cell phone.
Will you text me tomorrow?
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.
setup
Noun
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A setup is an equipment that is designed for a specific use.
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A setup is a scheme or trick that is used to deceive or frame someone.
Listen. He didn't die. It was a set-up
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A setup is the way in which something is organized or arranged.
The classroom setup was simple and efficient.