mod

Abbreviations.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɑd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɒd/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒd
• Homophone: Maud (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

mod (countable and uncountable, plural mods)

1. (uncountable) An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.
2. (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.
3. (informal) Clipping of modification.
4. (video games) An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.
5. (Internet) A moderator, for example on a discussion forum.
6. (computing, informal) A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).
   • 1992, "Jordan K. Hubbard", How to convert Amiga mods to Arch? (on Internet newsgroup comp.sys.acorn)

     I'd like to convert some of the arch^[sic] mods back into Amiga mods since I don't have the original Amiga versions.

   • 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.

7. (rock climbing) A moderately difficult route.
8. (in the plural, Oxford University, informal) Moderations: university examinations generally taken in the first year.
9. (mathematics, programming) Abbreviation of modulus.

   Synonyms: %, modulus

10. (statistics) Abbreviation of mode.

In video gaming, mods are created by end users, whereas such content by the game creators would be called an expansion pack.

mod (third-person singular simple present mods, present participle modding, simple past and past participle modded)

1. (transitive, informal) 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.

   Synonyms: trick, trick out

2. (video games) To install or create a mod.

   Learning Java is what got me into modding Minecraft.

3. (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.

mod (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of moderate.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

mod (plural mods)

1. A festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture, akin to the Welsh eisteddfod.

• -dom, DOM, Dom, Dom., ODM, dom, dom.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoˀð], [ˈmoðˀ]
• Rhymes: -oð

From Old Norse móðr, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz, cognate with English mood, German Mut.

mod n (singular definite modet, not used in plural form)

1. courage
2. mood

• (formal) courage, kurage c
• tapperhed c

From 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.

mod or imod

1. against
2. versus
3. towards
4. into
5. from

• The two forms, mod and imod, are interchangeable. In the contemporary language, the shorter form is used ca. 10 times as much as the longer one. As an adverb, only the longer form is used.

Borrowed from Sicilian modu and/or Italian modo, from Latin modus.

• IPA^(key): /mɔːt/

mod m (plural modi or modijiet)

1. way, manner

   Synonyms: għamla, manjiera

• bil-mod

mod

1. Alternative form of mode (“intellect, mood, will, courage, nature”)

mod n (definite singular modet, uncountable)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of mot

From 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.

• IPA^(key): /moːd/

mōd n

1. 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.

2. heart, spirit
3. state of mind, mood
4. (in poetry and compounds) courage, pride, zeal, or anger

• -mōd (“-minded”)
• mōdlēas (“mindless”)
• mōdsēoc (“mentally ill”)
• on mōd berinnan (of a thought or idea, “to occur”)

• Middle English: mod, mode, mood
  • English: mood
  • Scots: mude, muid

Borrowed from French mode.

mod n (plural moduri)

1. mode, fashion, style, way
2. (grammar) mode, mood

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

mȏd m (Cyrillic spelling мо̑д)

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mod

1. genitive dual/plural of modo

• IPA^(key): /ˈmod/ [ˈmoð̞]
• Rhymes: -od
• Syllabification: mod

Borrowed from English mod, from modern.

mod (invariable)

1. mod (of the 1960s modern style)

mod m (uncountable)

1. mod (1960s modern style)

Borrowed from English mod, from modification.

mod m (plural mods)

1. mod (an end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game)

• “mod”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Old Norse móðr, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mō-, *mē-.

• IPA^(key): /muːd/

• audio

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mod n

1. courage
2. (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)

• modig

• 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)

• -dom, Dom., dom, dom-

mod (definite accusative modu, plural modlar)

1. mode
2. (colloquial) mood

From Proto-Finnic *mooto.

mod

1. face

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “лицо”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

• IPA^(key): /moːd/

mod

1. Nasal mutation of bod.