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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ionic \I*on"ic\, a. [L. Ionicus Gr ?, fr ? Ionia.] 1. Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians. 2. (Arch.) Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of {Capital}. {Ionic dialect} (Gr. Gram.), a dialect of the Greek language, used in Ionia. The Homeric poems are written in what is designated old Ionic, as distinguished from new Ionic, or Attic, the dialect of all cultivated Greeks in the period of Athenian prosperity and glory. {Ionic foot}. (Pros.) See {Ionic}, n., 1. {Ionic}, or {Ionian}, {mode} (Mus.), an ancient mode, supposed to correspond with the modern major scale of C. {Ionic sect}, a sect of philosophers founded by Thales of Miletus, in Ionia. Their distinguishing tenet was that water is the original principle of all things {Ionic type}, a kind of heavy-faced type (as that of the following line). Note: This is Nonpareil Ionic. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mode \Mode\, n. [L. modus a measure, due or proper measure, bound, manner, form akin to E. mete: cf F. mode. See {Mete}, and cf {Commodious}, {Mood} in grammar, {Modus}.] 1. Manner of doing or being method; form fashion; custom; way style; as the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing. The duty of itself being resolved on the mode of doing it may easily be found --Jer. Taylor. A table richly spread in regal mode. --Milton. 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. Note: 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}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Potential \Po*ten"tial\, a. [Cf. F. potentiel. See {Potency}.] 1. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential. [Obs.] ``And hath in his effect a voice potential.'' --Shak. 2. Existing in possibility, not in actuality. ``A potential hero.'' --Carlyle. Potential existence means merely that the thing may be at ome time; actual existence, that it now is --Sir W. Hamilton. {Potential cautery}. See under {Cautery}. {Potential energy}. (Mech.) See the Note under {Energy}. {Potential mood}, or {mode} (Gram.), that form of the verb which is used to express possibility, liberty, power, will obligation, or necessity, by the use of may can, must might could would or should as I may go he can write. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: mode n 1: a manner of performance; "a manner of living"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a way of life" [syn: {manner}, {style}, {way}, {fashion}] 2: a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility [syn: {modality}] 3: verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker [syn: {mood}, {modality}] 4: any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave [syn: {musical mode}] 5: the most frequent value of a random variable From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: mode n. [common] A general state, usually used with an adjective describing the state. Use of the word `mode' rather than `state' implies that the state is extended over time, and probably also that some activity characteristic of that state is being carried out "No time to hack; I'm in thesis mode." In its jargon sense `mode' is most often attributed to people, though it is sometimes applied to programs and inanimate objects. In particular, see {hack mode}, {day mode}, {night mode}, {demo mode}, {fireworks mode}, and {yoyo mode}; also {talk mode}. One also often hears the verbs `enable' and `disable' used in connection with jargon modes. Thus for example, a sillier way of saying "I'm going to crash" is "I'm going to enable crash mode now". One might also hear a request to "disable flame mode, please". In a usage much closer to techspeak a mode is a special state that certain user interfaces must pass into in order to perform certain functions. For example, in order to insert characters into a document in the Unix editor `vi', one must type the i" key, which invokes the Insert" command. The effect of this command is to put vi into "insert mode", in which typing the i" key has a quite different effect (to wit, it inserts an i" into the document). One must then hit another special key, "ESC", in order to leave "insert mode". Nowadays, modeful interfaces are generally considered {losing} but survive in quite a few widely used tools built in less enlightened times. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: Mode An {object-oriented language}. ["The Programming Language Mode: Language Definition and User Guide", J. Vihavainen C-1987-50, U Helsinki, 1987]. [{Jargon File}] (1994-10-21) From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: mode 1. A general state, usually used with an adjective describing the state. Use of the word mode" rather than state" implies that the state is extended over time, and probably also that some activity characteristic of that state is being carried out "No time to hack; I'm in thesis mode." In its jargon sense mode" is most often attributed to people, though it is sometimes applied to programs and inanimate objects. In particular, see {hack mode}, {day mode}, {night mode}, {demo mode}, {fireworks mode}, and {yoyo mode}; also {chat}. 2. More technically, a mode is a special state that certain user interfaces must pass into in order to perform certain functions. For example, in order to insert characters into a document in the Unix editor "vi", one must type the i" key, which invokes the Insert" command. The effect of this command is to put vi into "insert mode", in which typing the i" key has a quite different effect (to wit, it inserts an i" into the document). One must then hit another special key, "ESC", in order to leave "insert mode". Nowadays, modeful interfaces are generally considered {losing} but survive in quite a few widely used tools built in less enlightened times. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-22)
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