mod
Translingual
editEtymology
editAbbreviation of modulus.
Symbol
editmod
- (mathematics) modulus
- 7 mod 2 = 1
English
editEtymology 1
editAbbreviations.
Pronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /mɑd/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɒd/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒd
- Homophone: Maud (cot–caught merger)
Noun
editmod (countable and uncountable, plural mods)
- (uncountable) An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.
- (UK) A 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker.
- 1964 March 31, “Rival Teen‐Age Gangs Terrorize British Sea Resort”, in The New York Times[1]:
- It was “Mods” against “Rockers” and the police against both as this quiet seaside town of 28,000 exploded with teen‐age violence during the Easter weekend. […] The “Mods” or “Moderns” wear sharply cut Italian‐style suits and long, pointed “winklepicker” shoes. They ride motor scooters fitted with scores of gleaming accesories[sic].
- (informal) Clipping of modification.
- (video games) An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.
- Coordinate terms: add-on, DLC, expansion pack
- 2003, David Kushner, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture[2], Random House, →ISBN:
- Since Doom II, thousands of gamers had begun modifying id's products and making them available for free online. Doom fans would communicate entirely over the Internet to create mods of the game—often never even meeting in person or, for that matter, talking on the phone.
- (Internet) A moderator, for example on a discussion forum.
- 2019 October 23, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “How Reddit's R/Relationships Subreddit Is Moderated”, in The Atlantic[3]:
- The mods had a difficult time deciding whether to believe a story about a man who was attracted to his girlfriend only when she was grieving her dead sister, but it stayed up.
- (computing, informal) A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).
- 2003, Rene T. A. Lysloff, Leslie C. Gay, Jr., Music and Technoculture, page 38:
- These mods, while usually having the distinctive bleep and beep quality of transistor-generated tones, are often astonishingly creative and rich in expressive nuances.
- (climbing) A moderately difficult route.
- (in the plural, Oxford University, informal) Moderations: university examinations generally taken in the first year.
- (mathematics, programming) Abbreviation of modulus.
- (statistics) Abbreviation of mode.
- (politics) Abbreviation of moderate.
- 2009 April 29, Marc Ambinder, “Dems and GOPers Treat Their Mods Differently”, in The Atlantic[5], retrieved 2024-03-25:
- Dems and GOPers Treat Their Mods Differently [title]
Usage notes
edit- In video gaming, mods are created by end users, whereas such content by the game creators would be called an expansion pack, or DLC.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editVerb
editmod (third-person singular simple present mods, present participle modding, simple past and past participle modded)
- (transitive, informal) To modify (an object) from its original condition, typically to individualize and/or enhance the performance of the object.
- (video games) To install or create a mod.
- Learning Java is what got me into modding Minecraft.
- (transitive, Internet, informal) To moderate; to silence or punish (a rule-breaking user) on a forum, especially when done by a moderator.
- Don't break the rules or you'll be modded.
- I used to mod that forum.
Derived terms
editAdjective
editmod (not comparable)
- Abbreviation of moderate.
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from Scottish Gaelic mòd.
Noun
editmod (plural mods)
- A festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture, akin to the Welsh eisteddfod.
Etymology 3
editProbably reflecting a Jamaican pronunciation of mad.
Adjective
editmod (comparative modder, superlative moddest)
- (MTE, slang) Crazy, insane.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:insane
- Have you listened to Kendrick's new album? It's absolutely mod!
- 2022 November 28, @187Caution, Twitter[6], archived from the original on 7 June 2024:
- now mans have to beat uruguay to advance, dec 2nd gonna be the moddest day revenge for 2010
- 2023 March 10, “original trapstar, caught a leg shot and still took it OT til death”, in Reddit[7], r/Torontology, archived from the original on 7 June 2024:
- What he did was actually mod. Man fuck cancer for real
- 2024 March 27, “Whyg with a tweet about Zombie (Lane)”, in Reddit[8], r/Torontology, archived from the original on 7 June 2024:
- Ngl this one of the moddest tweets 😭😭
- 2024 May 7, @leavem3al0ne90, Twitter[9], archived from the original on 7 June 2024:
- Why would Drake orchestrate a shooting and blame it on someone not in this country? Are you mod?? Y'all obsessive discoursing has you paranoid.
Anagrams
editDanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Norse móðr, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz, cognate with English mood, German Mut.
Noun
editmod n (singular definite modet, not used in plural form)
Usage notes
editThe sense "mood" is obsolete outside of compounds and a few fixed phrases.
Synonyms
editEtymology 2
editFrom Old Norse í mót, i.e. the preposition í (“in”) + the noun mót (“meeting”) (compare i møde), from Proto-Germanic *mōtą, cognate with English moot.
Preposition
editmod or imod
- toward, towards; to (physical motion, direction)
- Dette tog kører mod Vanløse.
- This train goes towards Vanløse.
- Peg mod det sted, hvor lyden kommer fra.
- Point towards the place the sound is coming from.
- toward, towards; to (physical orientation, facing)
- Hun stillede sig med ansigtet mod havet.
- She stood facing [or with her face towards] the sea.
- Værelset vender ud mod gaden.
- The room faces (toward(s)) the street.
- toward, towards; to (temporal motion)
- Han er godt på vej mod de 40 år.
- He's well on his way towards 40 years old.
- toward, towards (near in time)
- mod slutningen af aftenen ― toward(s) the end of the evening
- toward, towards; to (as a goal)
- De sigter mod at skabe 10.000 nye job.
- They're aiming to create [or toward(s) creating] 10,000 new jobs.
- almost, nearly, close to (in terms of quantity)
- Aktiekursen faldt med hen mod 20 procent.
- The share price fell by close to 20 percent.
- against; into (in the opposite physical direction of)
- Antonym: med
- Man må nogle gange svømme mod strømmen.
- One must sometimes swim against the current.
- Intet sejlskib kan sejle lige mod vinden.
- No sailing ship can sail directly against [or into] the wind.
- against; to (in physical contact with)
- Han lagde øret mod døren og lyttede.
- He put his ear against [or to] the door and listened.
- against, into, with (forceful collision)
- Bilen kørte mod muren.
- The car crashed into [or against] the wall.
- Skibet støder mod isbjerget.
- The ship collided with [or against] the iceberg.
- against, versus; on (having as an opponent)
- USA har aldrig formelt erklæret krig mod Irak.
- The US never formally declared war against [or on] Iraq.
- Gårsdagens tenniskamp var Federer mod Nadal.
- Yesterday's tennis match was Federer versus Nadal.
- against (in constrast to; inconsistent with; contradicting)
- mod reglerne ― against the rules
- mod sin vilje ― against one's will
- at; toward, towards; against (a recipient or target)
- Hans vrede var rettet mod præsidenten.
- His anger was directed at [or against or toward(s)] the president.
- Bogserien sigter mod unge voksne.
- The book series is aimed at [or toward(s)] young adults.
- to; toward, towards; with (as an attitude or behavior)
- against (refuting or implicating)
- beviser mod sagsøgte ― evidence against the defendant
- to (a victim)
- Hvordan kunne du gøre sådan en forfærdelig ting mod mig?
- How could you do such a horrible thing to me?
- from; against (protection, precaution)
- at skærme sig mod vinden ― to shield oneself from [or against] the wind
- et værn for at beskytte mod onde ånder ― a ward to protect from [or against] evil spirits
- for (e.g., as a treatment, cure, or prophylaxis)
- Han tog piller mod smerterne.
- He took pills for the pain.
- to; against (comparison)
- Slutresultatet blev 33 mod 17.
- The final score was 33 to 17.
- Fordele og ulemper skal vejes op mod hinanden.
- Advantages and disadvantages must be weighed against each other.
- in return for; in exchange for; as compensation for
- Hvad ville du gerne have mod din hjælp?
- What would you like in return for your help?
- against (as foreground re: a background)
- i silhuet mod himlen ― silhouetted against the sky
Usage notes
edit- The two forms, mod and imod, are interchangeable when used as a preposition. In the contemporary language, the shorter form is used about 10 times as much as the longer one. As an adverb, only the longer form is used.
Maltese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Sicilian modu and/or Italian modo, from Latin modus.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmod m (plural modi or modijiet)
Derived terms
editMiddle English
editNoun
editmod
- Alternative form of mode (“intellect, mood, will, courage, nature”)
Norwegian Nynorsk
editNoun
editmod n (definite singular modet, uncountable)
Old English
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *mōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mē-, *mō-. Cognate with Old High German muot (German Mut), Old Saxon mōd, Old Dutch muot (Dutch (ge)moed), Old Norse móðr (“anger, grief”) (Swedish mod), Gothic 𐌼𐍉𐌸𐍃 (mōþs, “anger, emotion”). The Proto-Indo-European root was also the source of Ancient Greek μῶθαι (môthai) and Latin mōs.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmōd n
- mind
- Adrian and Ritheus
- Mannes mōd biþ on þām hēafde and gǣþ ūt þurh þone mūþ.
- A person's mind is in the head and goes out through the mouth.
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Memory of the Saints"
- Se feorða leahtor is ira þæt is on englisc weamodnyss. Seo deð þæt se man nah his modes ġeweald and macað manslihtas and mycele yfelu.
- The fourth sin is Ira, that is in English, Anger; it causeth that a man have no power over his mind, and bringeth about manslaughters and many evils.
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
- Gyf þonne ǣfre gebyreð þæt þū þē ful hālne and ful trumne ongytst, and hæafst æalle þīne frēond myd þē, ǣġðer ge on mōde ge on līchaman, and on ðām ilcan worce and on ðām ylcan willum ðe ðē best lyst dōn, hweðer þū ðonne wille bēon āwiht blīðe?
- If then it ever happen that thou shalt find thyself full whole and full strong, and hast all thy friends with thee, both in mind and in body, and in that same work and in that same will which pleaseth thee best to do, wilt thou then be happy at all?
- Adrian and Ritheus
- heart, spirit
- state of mind, mood
- (in poetry and compounds) courage, pride, zeal, or anger
- affection
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"
- Uton lufian ure gebroðra on Godes gelaðunge mid swilcum mōde swa swa ðes cyðere þa lufode his fynd.
- Let us love our brothers in God's church with such affection as that with which this martyr loved his foes.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"
Declension
editDerived terms
edit- -mōd (“-minded”)
- mōdlēas (“mindless”)
- mōdsēoc (“mentally ill”)
- on mōd berinnan (of a thought or idea, “to occur”)
Descendants
editRomanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editmod n (plural moduri)
Serbo-Croatian
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
editmȏd m (Cyrillic spelling мо̑д)
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Declension
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Slovene
editNoun
editmod
Spanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from English mod, from modern.
Adjective
editmod (invariable)
- mod (of the 1960s modern style)
Noun
editmod m (uncountable)
- mod (1960s modern style)
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from English mod, from modification.
Noun
editmod m (plural mods)
- mod (an end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game)
Further reading
edit- “mod”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Swedish
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Norse móðr, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mō-, *mē-.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmod n
- courage
- (in some expressions and as a component of many words) (often positive) state of mind
- Han kände sig illa till mods
- He felt uncomfortable (uneasy, ill at ease)
Declension
editnominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | mod | mods |
definite | modet | modets | |
plural | indefinite | — | — |
definite | — | — |
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editEtymology 2
editBorrowed from English mod, from modification.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmod n
- (video games) mod (end user-created modifications)
- (Internet) a mod (moderator)
- Synonym: moderator
Declension
editReferences
edit- mod in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- mod in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- mod in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- mod in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
Anagrams
editTagalog
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English mod, from modification.
Pronunciation
edit- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈmod/ [ˈmod̪̚]
- Rhymes: -od
- Syllabification: mod
Noun
editmod (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜇ᜔)
- mod (an end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behavior of a video game)
Turkish
editNoun
editmod (definite accusative modu, plural modlar)
- mode
- (colloquial) mood
- Synonym: hâletiruhiye
Veps
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Finnic *mooto.
Noun
editmod
Inflection
editInflection of mod (inflection type 1/ilo) | |||
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nominative sing. | mod | ||
genitive sing. | modon | ||
partitive sing. | modod | ||
partitive plur. | modoid | ||
singular | plural | ||
nominative | mod | modod | |
accusative | modon | modod | |
genitive | modon | modoiden | |
partitive | modod | modoid | |
essive-instructive | modon | modoin | |
translative | modoks | modoikš | |
inessive | modos | modoiš | |
elative | modospäi | modoišpäi | |
illative | modoho | modoihe | |
adessive | modol | modoil | |
ablative | modolpäi | modoilpäi | |
allative | modole | modoile | |
abessive | modota | modoita | |
comitative | modonke | modoidenke | |
prolative | mododme | modoidme | |
approximative I | modonno | modoidenno | |
approximative II | modonnoks | modoidennoks | |
egressive | modonnopäi | modoidennopäi | |
terminative I | modohosai | modoihesai | |
terminative II | modolesai | modoilesai | |
terminative III | modossai | — | |
additive I | modohopäi | modoihepäi | |
additive II | modolepäi | modoilepäi |
Derived terms
editReferences
editWelsh
editPronunciation
editVerb
editmod
- Nasal mutation of bod.
Mutation
edit- English abbreviations
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual symbols
- mul:Mathematics
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɒd
- Rhymes:English/ɒd/1 syllable
- English terms with homophones
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- British English
- English terms with quotations
- English informal terms
- English clippings
- en:Video games
- en:Internet
- en:Computing
- en:Climbing
- Oxford University English
- en:Mathematics
- en:Programming
- en:Statistics
- en:Politics
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- English terms with usage examples
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- English terms borrowed from Scottish Gaelic
- English terms derived from Scottish Gaelic
- Multicultural Toronto English
- English slang
- English 4chan slang
- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Danish/oð
- Rhymes:Danish/oð/1 syllable
- Danish terms inherited from Old Norse
- Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Danish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Danish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish neuter nouns
- Danish prepositions
- Danish terms with usage examples
- Maltese terms borrowed from Sicilian
- Maltese terms derived from Sicilian
- Maltese terms borrowed from Italian
- Maltese terms derived from Italian
- Maltese terms derived from Latin
- Maltese 1-syllable words
- Maltese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Maltese terms with audio pronunciation
- Maltese lemmas
- Maltese nouns
- Maltese masculine nouns
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk uncountable nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk neuter nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk pre-2012 forms
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English nouns
- Old English neuter nouns
- Old English terms with quotations
- Old English neuter a-stem nouns
- ang:Mind
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian neuter nouns
- ro:Grammar
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- Slovene non-lemma forms
- Slovene noun forms
- Spanish 1-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/od
- Rhymes:Spanish/od/1 syllable
- Spanish terms borrowed from English
- Spanish terms derived from English
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish adjectives
- Spanish indeclinable adjectives
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish uncountable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Swedish terms with audio pronunciation
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns
- Swedish terms with usage examples
- Swedish terms borrowed from English
- Swedish terms derived from English
- sv:Video games
- sv:Internet
- Tagalog terms borrowed from English
- Tagalog terms derived from English
- Tagalog 1-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/od
- Rhymes:Tagalog/od/1 syllable
- Tagalog terms with mabilis pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish nouns
- Turkish colloquialisms
- Veps terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Veps terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Veps lemmas
- Veps nouns
- Veps ilo-type nominals
- Welsh terms with IPA pronunciation
- Welsh non-lemma forms
- Welsh mutated verbs
- Welsh nasal-mutation forms