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English

Etymology 1

Abbreviations.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /m?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m?d/
• Rhymes: -?d
• Homophone: Maud (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

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. (Britain) 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.

Usage notes

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

Translations

Verb

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.

   Synonyms: trick, trick out

2. (transitive, Internet, informal) To moderate; to silence or punish (a rule-breaking user) on a forum, especially when done by a moderator.

Derived terms

Adjective

mod (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of moderate.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mod (plural mods)

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

Anagrams

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

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mo?ð], [?moð?]
• Rhymes: -oð

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

1. courage
2. mood

Synonyms

• (formal) courage, kurage c
• tapperhed c

Etymology 2

From Old Norse í mót, i.e. the preposition í (“in”) + the noun mót (“meeting”) (compare i møde), from Proto-Germanic *m?t?, cognate with English moot.

Preposition

mod or imod

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

Usage notes

• 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.

Middle English

Noun

mod

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

mod n (definite singular modet, uncountable)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by mot

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *m?daz, from Proto-Indo-European *m?-, *m?-. Cognate with Old High German muot (German Mut), Old Saxon m?d, Old Dutch muot (Dutch (gee)moed), Old Norse móðr (“anger, grief”) (Swedish mod), Gothic ???????????????? (m?þs, “anger, emotion”). The Proto-Indo-European root was also the source of Ancient Greek ????? (môthai) and Latin m?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo?d/

Noun

m?d n

1. mind
   • Adrian and Ritheus

2. courage, pride, grief, anger
3. state of mind

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Romanian

Etymology

From French mode.

Noun

mod n (plural moduri)

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Noun

m?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Declension

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Slovene

Noun

mod

1. genitive dual/plural of modo

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mod/, [?moð?]

Noun

mod m (plural modes)

1. mod (clarification of this definition is needed)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse móðr, from Proto-Germanic *m?daz, from Proto-Indo-European *m?-, *m?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu?d/

Noun

mod n

1. courage
2. feeling

Declension

Anagrams

• -dom, Dom., dom, dom-

Turkish

Noun

mod (definite accusative modu, plural modlar)

1. mode
2. mood

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mooto.

Noun

mod

1. face

Inflection

Derived terms

References

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

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo?d/

Verb

mod

1. Nasal mutation of bod.

Mutation

English

Etymology

Coined by American columnist Herb Caen in 1958. From beat (generation) + cutesy or ironic use of the Russian suffix -??? (-nik). This suffix experienced a surge in English coinages for nicknames and diminutives after the 1957 Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite. Compare jazznik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?tn?k/

Noun

beatnik (plural beatniks)

1. A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and therewith is supposed to reject conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior
2. A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style.

Translations

See also

• Baghdad by the Bay (also coined by Herb Caen)
• hepcat
• hippie, hippy
• jazznik
• peacenik

References

Finnish

Etymology

From English beatnik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?tnik/, [?bi?t?nik]
• IPA^(key): /?bi?tnik?i/, [?bi?t?nik?i]

Noun

beatnik

1. beatnik

Usage notes

Partitive plural is commonly spelled with double-k as beatnikkejä, which may be considered erroneous.

Declension

French

Etymology

From English beatnik.

Noun

beatnik m or f (plural beatniks)

1. beatnik

Portuguese

Etymology

From English beatnik.

Noun

beatnik m, f (plural beatniks)

1. beatnik (person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s)