Mood vs Ambient - What's the difference?

mood | ambient |

As nouns the difference between mood and ambient

is that mood is a mental or emotional state, composure while ambient is something that surrounds.

As an adjective ambient is

encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.

mood

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) mood, mode, mod, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A mental or emotional state, composure.

I'm in a sad mood since I dumped my lover.

A sullen mental state; a bad mood.

He's in a mood with me today.

A disposition to do something.

I'm not in the mood for running today.

(senseid) A prevalent atmosphere or feeling.

A good politician senses the mood of the crowd.

Usage notes

* Adjectives often used with "mood": good, bad.

Synonyms

* (mental or emotional state) composure, humor/humour, spirits, temperament * (bad mood) huff (informal), pet, temper * (disposition to do something) frame of mind

Antonyms

* (bad mood) good humour, good mood, good spirits

Derived terms

* in the mood * mood music * mood swing * moody

Etymology 2

Alteration of mode

Noun

(en noun)

(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.

The most common mood in English is the indicative.

Synonyms

* mode * grammatical mood

Hyponyms

* See also

Derived terms

* indicative mood * conjunctive mood = subjunctive mood * imperative mood * conditional mood

Anagrams

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ambient

English

(wikipedia ambient)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.

A cup of tea eventually cools to the ambient temperature.

* Alexander Pope

A glorious pile whose tow'ring summit ambient clouds concealed.

* Milton

This which yields or fills all space, the ambient air wide interfused.

(music) Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric.

Relating to, or suitable for, storage at room temperature.

ambient food

ambient warehousing

(mathematics) Containing]] objects or [[describe, describing a setting that one is interested in.

* 1996 , Moshe Machover, Set Theory, Logic and Their Limitations , Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9780521479981), page 282

These, then, are characterizations of the system of natural numbers within an ambient set theory. And they seem to work, in the sense that in a sufficiently strong set theory it can be shown that Peano's axioms have (up to isomorphism) a unique model (cf. Rem. 6.1.8).

* 2008 , Akihiro Kanamori, The Higher Infinite: Large Cardinals in Set Theory from Their Beginnings , Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9783540888666), page 369

As much of the work in determinacy must proceed without AC, ZF serves as the ambient theory for this section , and uses of AC will be explicitly noted, reversing the usual procedure.

* 2011 , Henry W. Haslach Jr., Maximum Dissipation Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and its Geometric Structure , Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9781441977656), page 163

A point in the manifold is classically represented by a vector in the ambient space.

Noun

(en noun)

Something that surrounds.

(uncountable, music) A type of modern music which incorporates elements of various musical styles, and creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere.

* 1996 , SPIN magazine (volume 12, number 3, page 116)

Ambient can be flabby synth mulch that needs to access cyberism and external philosophies to convince you you're not being scammed.

(astrology) The atmosphere; the surrounding air or sky; atmospheric components collectively such as air, clouds, water vapour, hail, etc.

* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):

It might be also, that attracted by that great void Vacuum ... all the ambients would be rarified, and particularly, the air.

Synonyms

* (music) ambient music, chillout

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