Mode vs Bode - What's the difference?
mode | bode |
(music) One of several ancient scales, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale
A particular means of accomplishing something.
* 1855 , Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society (volume 9, page 205)
(statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution
(mathematics, physics) A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
(computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data.
(grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.
To foreshow something; to augur.
* Dryden
An omen; a foreshadowing.
* Chaucer
(obsolete, or, dialect) A bid; an offer.
A messenger; a herald.
A stop; a halting; delay.
(bide)
* Tennyson
As a noun mode
is fashion, trend.As a proper noun bode is
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English
(wikipedia mode)Etymology 1
From (etyl) mode, from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- What was the mode of entry?
- An effectual and unexpensive mode of Protecting Wall-Trees from Spring-Frosts.
- In insert mode , characters typed are directly inserted into the buffer
Derived terms
* (music) Aeolian mode, Dorian mode, Ionian mode, Locrian mode, Lydian mode, Mixolydian mode, Phrygian mode * (grammar) imperative mode, indicative mode, infinitive mode, subjunctive mode * (computing) immediate mode, protected mode, real mode, retained mode * collective mode * dual mode * soft modeSynonyms
* (grammar) mood, grammatical moodHyponyms
* (grammar) See alsoEtymology 2
From (etyl) .See also
* bimodal distribution * median * mean * modalAnagrams
* ----bode
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) boden, from (etyl) ). : Since 1740 also a shortening of forebodeVerb
(bod)- Whatever now / The omen proved, it boded well to you.
Derived terms
* bodementNoun
(en noun)- The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- (Robertson)
Etymology 2
*Verb
(head)- There that night they bode .