2. Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.
The easy, apathetic graces of a man of the mode.
Macaulay. 3. Variety; gradation; degree. Pope.
4. (Metaph.) Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which
they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement
or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter.
Modes I call such complex ideas, which, however compounded, contain not in them the supposition of
subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies on, or affections of, substances.
Locke. 5. (Logic) The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple,
contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality
of the constituent proposition; mood.
6. (Gram.) Same as Mood.
7. (Mus.) The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode,
the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music.
In modern music, only the major and the minor mode, of whatever key, are recognized.
8. A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.
Syn. — Method; manner. See Method.
Model
(Mod"el) n. [F. modèle, It. modello, fr. (assumed) L. modellus, fr. modulus a small measure,
dim. of modus. See Mode, and cf. Module.]
1. A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile
of the same size.
In charts, in maps, and eke in models made.
Gascoigne.
I had my father's signet in my purse,
Which was the model of that Danish seal.
Shak.
You have the models of several ancient temples, though the temples and the gods are perished.
Addison. 2. Something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material
representation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the
inventor's model of a machine.
[The application for a patent] must be accompanied by a full description of the invention, with drawings
and a model where the case admits of it.
Am. Cyc.
When we mean to build
We first survey the plot, then draw the model.
Shak. 3. Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the
model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior.
4. That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little, contracted model.
South.
