different between classification vs modes

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French classification

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?klæs?f??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

classification (countable and uncountable, plural classifications)

1. The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
   • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN

     I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
     And there is also taxinomia a principle of 'classification' and ordered tabulation.
     Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
     Western reason had entered the age of judgement.

Derived terms

• classification scheme
• classification yard

Related terms

• class
• classic
• classify
• category
• categorize
• segment

Translations

Further reading

• classification in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• classification in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• classification at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

classe +? -ification

Pronunciation

Noun

classification f (plural classifications)

1. classification

Further reading

• “classification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Noun

modes

1. plural of mode

Anagrams

• demos, desmo, desmo-, domes

Catalan

Noun

modes

1. plural of mode

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

modes

1. Plural form of mode

French

Etymology 1

see mode (“fashion”)

Noun

modes f

1. plural of mode

Etymology 2

see mode (“method, mode”)

Noun

modes m

1. plural of mode

Anagrams

• démos, dômes

Ladin

Noun

modes

1. plural of moda

Middle English

Noun

modes

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

Swedish

Noun

modes

1. indefinite genitive singular of mode