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Modal   /mˈoʊdəl/   Listen
Modal

adjective
1.
Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution.  Synonym: average.
2.
Of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode.
3.
Relating to or expressing the mood of a verb.
noun
1.
An auxiliary verb (such as 'can' or 'will') that is used to express modality.  Synonyms: modal auxiliary, modal auxiliary verb, modal verb.



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"Modal" Quotes from Famous Books



... unpleasing f. Eastern f. Winded and untainted f. Sublime f. Kitchen haunting f. Crimson f. Lofty and stately f. Ingrained f. Spitrack f. City f. Architrave f. Basely accoutred f. Pedestal f. Mast-headed f. Tetragonal f. Modal f. Renowned f. Second notial f. Rheumatic f. Cheerful and buxom f. Flaunting and braggadocio f. Solemn f. Egregious f. Annual f. Humourous and capricious f. Festival f. Rude, gross, and absurd f. ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... been gifted with the faculty of taking down authentic versions from his singing. He seems to have had difficulty in differentiating between long measured notes and unmeasured pauses; between the respective meanings of three-four and six-eight time; between modal and modern tunes; and between the cases where irregular barring was or was not required. Apart from the amateur nature of the harmonies, the book exhibits such strange unacquaintance with the rudiments of musical notation as the ...
— The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties • Richard Runciman Terry
... the devising of rules for the discovery of syllogistic middle terms; this system for aiding slow-witted persons became known as the pons asinorum. The parts of logic which he treated with most minuteness are modal propositions and modal syllogisms. In commenting on Aristotle's Ethics he dealt in a very independent manner with the question of free will, his conclusions being remarkably similar to those of John Locke. The only liberty which ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various


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