mod adj : relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic designs"; [syn: modern, modernistic] n : a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers

English

Etymology

from modern

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒd

mod

1. moderate, as in: low, moderate, high
2. A moderator
3. modulus

Noun

1. An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.
2. A person who dresses in such a style.
3. A modification to an object, typically for the purpose of individualizing and/or enhancing the performance of the object.

Verb

1. To modify an object from its original condition, typically for the purposes of individualizing and/or enhancing the performance of the object.

   His friends were particularly impressed with the way he modded his Ruckus.

2. To moderate; to punish a rule-breaking user on a forum, esp. when done by a moderator.

   Don't break the rules or you'll be modded.

Synonyms

• trick, trick out
• sense to moderate

Derived terms

• modder

Danish

Noun

mod

1. courage

Preposition

mod

1. against

Old English

Etymology

*|mōþa-, from *|mē-, *|mō-. Cognate with Old High German muot (German Mut), Old Saxon mōd (Dutch moed), Old Norse móðr ‘anger, grief’ (Swedish mod), Gothic 𐌼𐍉𐌸𐍃 ‘anger, emotion’. The IE root was also the source of Greek and Latin mos.

Pronunciation

/moːd/

Noun

1. heart, mind, feeling
2. courage, pride, grief, anger
3. state of mind

Derived terms

• mōdġehygd

Declension

Descendants

• English: mood

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

mod

1. courage

Mod or mods may refer to:

In culture and music:

• Mod (lifestyle), 1960s British youth subculture
• Mod revival, a rebirth of the mod subculture in the late 1970s
• Mod Club Theatre, a nightclub in Toronto, Ontario
• Mods (band), a Norwegian rock band
• Body-modification
• Mod (Scotland), a festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture
• M.O.D., "Method of Destruction", Billy Milano's next band after S.O.D.
• MuchOnDemand, a music-television show that airs on MuchMusic in Canada
• Pre-designed and packaged kits designed to alter an existing (audio) circuit (i.e. a guitar pedal)

In computing:

• Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) an XML file format used for a bibliographic element-set such as a bibliographic reference
• MOD, a file extension either for a computer music file-format or for a video file-format from hard-disk video-recorders.
• Magneto-optical drive
• Forum moderator, a person who watches over an Internet message board
• Masters of Deception, a New York-based hacker group
• Case modding, the modification of a computer chassis
• Modchip, a device designed to modify the behavior of an electronic system. It is often used for circumventing the digital-rights management of many popular game consoles
• Mod (computer gaming), a software modification to alter a computer-game's appearance or play
• Module, a self-contained component of a system
• Master Of Dimensions, a 1996 point-and-click adventure game developed by the israeli Makh-Shevet
• mod_perl, mod_php, mod_parrot, mod_python, mod_ruby, mod_jk for the Apache web server

In mathematics:

• Modular arithmetic
  • Modulo
  • Modulo operation
  • Modular exponentiation
  • Mod n cryptanalysis
• Remainder

Other

• Honour Moderations, a first set of examinations at Oxford University
• Manager on Duty
• Maximum operating depth (in scuba-diving)
• Ministry of Defence
• Money of the Day, in the petroleum industry
• Modesto City-County Airport
• Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
• Minimum Object Distance, in camera-lenses
• Moving Object Database
• Moderator
• A school period
• Misperceptions Of Dynamics (Erling Moxnes)

See also

• Mode
• Modern
• Modification, with particular reference to modifications in technology
• Module

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