modal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
entertainment
grammar
graphical-user-interface
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
logic
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
statistics
Etymology: From Middle French modal, from Medieval Latin modālis (“pertaining to a mode”), from Latin modus (“mode”). Compare to French, Spanish, and Portuguese modal and Italian modale. By surface analysis, mod(e) + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more modal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most modal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: modals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to a mode or modus.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical — music.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical — music.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
gloss: Of, or relating to the modality between propositions.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to the statistical mode.
pos: adj
gloss: Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
pos: adj
gloss: Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.
pos: adj
examples: Dialogs can be modal, in which case the user is required to provide necessary information before work in the main window can continue, or modeless. Modeless dialogs do not prevent the user from interacting with any of the other windows in the application.
a modal dialog; a modal window
gloss: Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes.
pos: adj
gloss: A modal proposition.
pos: noun
gloss: A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary.
pos: noun
gloss: A modal verb.
pos: noun
examples: Using the same type of distributional criterion, we could argue that only a Verb (in its base form) can occur in the position marked — in (23) below to complete the sentence:
(23) They/it can —
[...]
Conversely, the only type of word which could be used to begin a three-word sentence such as (25) below:
(25) — I be frank?
is a Modal: cf. [...]
gloss: A modal window, one that cannot be closed until a decision is made.
pos: noun
examples: Modal screen elements are subtrees which, when activated, disable all elements external to them. Examples of modals are yes-no message boxes and the application itself.
Synonyms: forming
conditioning
Related words: mode
model
modeler
moderate
moderation
moderator
module
modulus
mood
semimodal
Derived words: antimodal
bimodal
crossmodal
eigenmodal
extramodal
heteromodal
intermodal
intramodal
metamodal
modal adverb
modal auxiliary
modal case
modal filter
modalise
modalism
modalist
modality
modalized
modal jazz
modal logic
modally
modal particle
modal scale
modal shift
monomodal
multimodal
neomodal
nonmodal
plurimodal
polymodal
quadrimodal
quasimodal
submodal
supramodal
synchromodal
transmodal
trimodal
unimodal
double modal
essive-modal
micromodal
modal stacking
stacked modal
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: modaal
lang: Dutch
word: modus-
lang: Finnish
word: modaalinen
lang: Galician
word: modal
lang: Hungarian
word: modális
lang: Polish
word: modalny
lang: Russian
word: ла́довый
roman: ládovyj