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MODO

Date "MODO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

"MODO" is a common misspelling or typo for: mode, mood, moody.


Specialty Definition: MODO

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Literature

Modo The fiend that urges to murder, and one of the five that possessed "Poor Tom." (See Mahu .) (Shakespeare: King Lear, iv. 1.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Modo

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Modo the dwarf is a fictional character in the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. He is the gardener at Unseen University. He is a conscientious gardener, but its location on the campus of a major magical faculty means that his handiwork has a tendency to be disrupted by supernatural events.

Modo is a hockey team in Elitserien in Sweden.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Modo."

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Synonyms within Context: MODO

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Courtesy

Adverb: courteously; Adjective: with a good grace; with open arms, with outstretched arms; a bras ouverts; suaviter in modo, in good humor.

Excitability

Meek, tolerant; patient, patient as Job; submissive; tame; content, resigned, chastened, subdued, lamblike; gentle as a lamb; suaviter in modo; mild as mothers milk; soft as peppermint; armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: MODO

Specialty definitions using "MODO": Suaviter in Modo. (references)
Etymologies containing "MODO": Modern. (references)
Non-English Usage: "MODO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Esperanto (fashion, mode), Italian (expression, manner, manners, means, measure, mode, mood, opportunity, outlook, rate, way, wise), Latin (beat, bound, but, but only, exclusively, if only, in a (certain) manner, just, just now, lately, limit, manner, measure, merely, method, mode, modern, now, only, presently, recently, rhythm, rule, size, way), Papiamen (manner, mode, way), Portuguese (manner, means, mode, mood, way), Portuguese Brazilian (manner, way), Spanish (digit, kind, line, manner, mode, mood, way, wise), Sranan (fashion, mode).

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Modern Usage: MODO

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Un Modo di essere donna (1973)

Ni modo... así somos (1981)

Todo modo (1976)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: MODO

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Books

  • Giovanthomaso Cimello: The Collected Secular Works: Canzone Villanesche Al Modo Napolitano (1545) and Libro Primo De Canti a Quatro Voci (1548) (Recent Researches in the Musis of the Renaissance, 126) (reference)

  • Reglas generales de acompañar : en organo, clavicordio y harpa, con solo saber cantar la parte o un baxo en canto figurado : distribuidas en tres partes ... añadido aora un nuevo tratado, done se explica el modo de acompañar las obras de musica, segun el (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: MODO

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Detalles del modo de conexión, por contacto, del nervio vestibular,.. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Modo di fare il pane. Credit: Library of Congress.

Il Modo di pescare & navigare nel mare di mezzo giorno. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Historic Usage: MODO

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

Tunc enim se ipse principatu exuit atque in privatis constituit liber: hoc modo populus & superior efficitur, reverso ad eum sc. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: MODO

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The chemical firm Akzo Nobel foresees continued moderate and fairly stable growth in its most important markets, and the forestry firm Modo will continue to strengthen the competitive position within its three main product areas, which are fine paper, wood-containing printing paper and paperboard. (references)

Major end-users are Assi Doman AB (sawn timber), Holmen Paper AB (paper mill), Korsnas Stromsnas AB (paperboard containers, plastic packing goods), Klippan AB (paper mill), MoDo Paper AB (pulp and paper), Munksjo AB (paper mill), Sodra (forest owners), Stora Enso,(paper, packaging boards, pulp and timber products), and SCA Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (paper mill/packaging products). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: MODO

"MODO" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "MODO" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)88.89%8124,375
Noun (proper)11.11%1339,140
                    Total100.00%9N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: MODO

Expression using "MODO": suaviter in modo. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "MODO": modo-english.

Ending with "MODO": English-modo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MODO

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

modo

43

de modo produção

3

hockey modo

12

de modo primitiva produccion

3

modo eyewear

12

de feudal modo produção

3

modo eye glasses

10

asiático de modo produção

3

indicativo modo

10

modo paper

3

modo de produccion

9

el modo subjuntivo

3

modo subjuntivo

8

de modo produccion socialista

3

modo glasses

8

de feudal modo produccion

3

modo promiscuo

7

cultura de estados modo unidos vida

2

imperativo modo

7

de fallos modo prueba

2

capitalista de modo produccion

6

asincrona de modo transferencia

2

de esclavista modo produccion

6

modo sweden

2

asiatico de modo produccion

6

de modo primitivo produccion

2

modo frame

6

grafico modo

2

de modo produção socialista

6

grosso modo

2

al modo nuestro pimpinela

5

modo protegido tutorial

2

modo protegido

5

185 modo

2

del derechos el modo reales teoria título y

5

2001 de de del inquietos modo norte o otro un

2

modo quasi

4

de fallas modo reporte

2

capitalista de modo produção

4

eyeglass frame modo

2

mio modo

3

modo static.com

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Bible Trace: MODO

LanguageDateSourceJohn Chapter 16, Verse 31
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintApekriqh autoiV o ihsouV arti pisteuete
Latin405VulgateRespondit eis Iesus modo creditis
Old English990West SaxonSe hælend heom andswerede. & cwæð. Nu ge ge-lyfeð.
Middle English1395WyclifJhesus answeride to hem, Now ye bileuen.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleIesus answered them: Now ye do beleve.
Jacobean English1611King JamesJesus answered them, Do ye now believe?
Victorian English1833WebsterJesus answered them, Do ye now believe?
Basic English1964OgdenJesus made answer, Have you faith now?

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: MODO

LanguageJohn Chapter 16, Verse 31
CebuanoSi Jesus mitubag kanila, "Nagatoo na ba diay kamo karon?
Chinese耶 穌 說 、 現 在 們 信 麼 。
CroatianOdgovori im Isus: "Sada vjerujete?
DanishJesus svarede dem: "Nu tro I!
DutchJezus antwoordde hun: Gelooft gij nu?
FinnishJeesus vastasi heille: "Nyt te uskotte.
FrenchJésus leur répondit: Vous croyez maintenant.
GermanJesus antwortete ihnen: Jetzt glaubet ihr?
Haitian CreoleJezi reponn yo: Nou sèten nou kwè koulye a?
HungarianFelele nékik Jézus: Most hiszitek?
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariYesus menjawab mereka, "Jadi percayakah kalian sekarang?
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaLalu jawab Yesus kepada mereka itu, "Percayakah kamu sekarang?
Korean예 수 께 서 대 답 하 시 되 ` 이 " 너 희 가 믿 느 냐 ?
MaoriKa whakahokia e Ihu ki a ratou, Katahi koutou ka whakapono?
NorwegianJesus svarte dem: Nu tror I;
PortugueseRespondeu-lhes Jesus: Credes agora?   
Rumanian,,Acum credeyi?`` le -a rqspuns Isus.
ShuarTura Jesus Tímiayi "¿Nekasash Enentáimtarum?
SwahiliYesu akawajibu, "Je, mnaamini sasa?
SwedishJesus svarade dem: "Nu tron I?
UmaNa'uli' Yesus: "Ha mepangala' mpu'u-mokoi wae lau?

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: MODO

Derivations

Words ending with "MODO": quomodo. (additional references)

Words containing "MODO": commodore, commodores, quomodos. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: MODO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: doom, mood.

Words within the letters "d-m-o-o"

-1 letter: dom, mod, moo.

-2 letters: do, mo, od, om.

 Words containing the letters "d-m-o-o"
 

+1 letter: dooms, doomy, duomo, mondo, moods, moody, mooed, sodom.

 

+2 letters: boomed, comedo, condom, dogdom, domino, doomed, dromon, duomos, loomed, modulo, mondos, monody, mooned, moored, mooted, roomed, sodoms, sodomy, tomcod, zoomed.

 

+3 letters: bedroom, bloomed, boredom, bosomed, bossdom, broomed, comedos, commode, condoms, cormoid, dayroom, dodoism, dogdoms, dogedom, dominos, doomful, doomily, dooming, doorman, doormat, doormen, dromond, dromons, gloomed, goodman, goodmen, groomed, gumwood, hoodlum, lordoma, madrono, madzoon, malodor, manhood, midnoon, modioli, moidore, monodic, mooched, moodier, moodily, motored, mudroom, osmosed, outmode, popedom, quomodo, tomcods, towmond, vroomed, woodman, woodmen.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MODO


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 4F 44 4F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01001111 01000100 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#79 &#68 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 004F 0044 004F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47493849

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Historic
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Bible Trace
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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