Mood vs. Mod — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Mood and Mod
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Mood
(Logic) The arrangement of statement types in a syllogism.
Mod
An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s.
Mood
A particular state of mind or emotion
News that put us in a good mood.
Mod
In or characteristic of this unconventionally modern style.
Mood
A pervading impression of an observer
The somber mood of the painting.
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Mod
Fashionably up-to-date, especially in style, design, or dress.
Mood
An instance or spell of sulking or angry behavior
A friend's visit lifted him out of his mood.
Mod
(uncountable) An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.
Mood
Inclination; disposition
I'm in the mood for ice cream.
Mod
(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.
Mood
A property of verbs in which the speaker's attitude toward the factuality or likelihood of the action or condition expressed.
Mod
(informal) modification
Mood
A category or set of verb forms or inflections used to indicate such an attitude. In English, the indicative mood is used to make factual statements, the subjunctive mood to indicate doubt or unlikelihood, and the imperative mood to express a command.
Mod
(video games) An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.
Mood
A mental or emotional state, composure.
I've been in a bad mood since I was dumped by my ex-boyfriend.
Mod
(Internet, sometimes derogatory) A moderator, for example on a discussion forum.
Mood
Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).
Mod
A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).
Mood
A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.
He's in a mood with me today.
Mod
(rock climbing) A moderately difficult route.
Mood
A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.
I'm not in the mood for running today.
Mod
Moderations: university examinations generally taken in the first year.
Mood
A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.
A good politician senses the mood of the crowd.
Mod
Abbreviation of modulus
Mood
(slang) A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.
Mod
(statistics) mode
Mood
(grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
The mood most frequently encountered in English is the indicative, of which the mood in this sentence is an example.
Mod
A festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture, akin to the Welsh eisteddfod.
Mood
(slang) Used to express that the speaker finds something very relatable.
—I am feeling very exhausted today. —Mood.
Mod
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.
Mood
Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).
Mod
(video games) To install or create a mod.
Learning Java is what got me into modding Minecraft.
Mood
Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, conditional, hypothetical, obligatory, imperitive, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the imperitive mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode.
Mod
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.
Mood
Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.
Till at the last aslaked was his mood.
Fortune is merry,And in this mood will give us anything.
The desperate recklessness of her mood.
Mod
Abbreviation of moderate
Mood
A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;
Whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time
He was in a bad humor
Mod
A British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers
Mood
The prevailing psychological state;
The climate of opinion
The national mood had changed radically since the last election
Mod
Relating to a recently developed fashion or style;
Their offices are in a modern skyscraper
Tables in modernistic designs
Mood
Verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
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