Modal vs Modeless - What's the difference?
modal | modeless |
of, or relating to a mode or modus
(grammar) of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause
(grammar) modal verb
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(music) of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical music
(logic) of, or relating to the modality between propositions
(statistics) relating to the statistical mode.
(computing) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
(computer science) requiring immediate user interaction (often used as modal dialog'' or ''modal window )
(metaphysics) Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes
(computing) Not modal; not having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
In computing terms the difference between modal and modeless
is that modal is having separate modes in which user input has different effects while modeless is not modal; not having separate modes in which user input has different effects.As adjectives the difference between modal and modeless
is that modal is of, or relating to a mode or modus while modeless is not modal; not having separate modes in which user input has different effects.As a noun modal
is a modal proposition.modal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Using the same type of distributional criterion, we could argue that only a Verb (in its base form) can occur in the position marked — in (23) below to complete the sentence:
(23) They/it can —
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Conversely, the only type of word which could be used to begin a three-word sentence such as (25) below:
(25) — I be frank?
is a Modal : cf. [...]
