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proper noun
- A river in southern Germany, flowing from Bavaria to the Rhine.
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adjective
- pertaining to male humans, men:
- manly; having the qualities associated with man, men; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; not feminine or effeminate; virile (only in this sense, does the adjective compare)
- Hallam " That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a energy.
- Fuller " A church.
- male; having male biology, not female; of the male sex (literally of humans, rarely anthropomorphic of animals)
- Chaucer " Thy children, that is to say, thy sons.
- belonging to men; appropriated to, or used by, men
- "John", "Paul", and "Harry" are names.
- (grammar) in many inflected languages:
- (context, of a noun) being of the class, or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner
- The noun Student is in German.
- (context, of some other parts of speech) being inflected in agreement with the
- German uses the of the definite article, der, with Student.
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noun
- A centre, midpoint
- The of a circle is the point which has the same distance to every point of circle.
- The part betweeen the beginning and the end.
- (cricket) the middle stump
- The central part of a human body.
adjective
- Being in the or in-between; as middle point, middle name, Middle English, Middle Ages, middle weight, etc.
- Central to.
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noun
- a modal auxiliary
adjective
- of, or relating to a mode
- (grammar) of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause
- (music) of, relating to, or composed in the moods of medieval ecclesiastical music
- (logic) of, or relating to modality
- (computer science) requiring immediate user interaction (often used as modal dialog or modal window)
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noun
- (music) One of several ancient scales, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the harmonic minor scale
- A particular means of accomplishing something.
- What was the mode of entry?
- (statistics) A value occurring most frequently in a distribution
- (context, mathematics, physics) A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
- (computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data.
- In insert mode, characters typed are directly inserted into the buffer
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verb (modif, i, ed)
- (transitive) To make partial changes to.
- (intransitive) To be or become modified.
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