- manner, mode, style, way, fashion - how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion"
--1 is a kind of property
--1 has particulars:artistic style, idiom; drape; fit; form; life style, life-style, lifestyle, modus vivendi; setup; touch, signature; wise - mode - a particular functioning condition or arrangement; "switched from keyboard to voice mode"
--2 is a kind of condition, status
- modality, mode - a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
--3 is a kind of logical relation
- mood, mode, modality - verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
--4 is a kind of grammatical relation
--4 has particulars:- mode, musical mode - any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
--5 is a kind of diatonic scale
--5 has particulars:ecclesiastical mode, Gregorian mode, church mode, medieval mode; Greek mode; major scale, major diatonic scale; minor scale, minor diatonic scale - mode, modal value - the most frequent value of a random variable
--6 is a kind of average, norm
- modality, mode - a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility