(Britain, somewhat dated) a type of school, for pupils who had failed the 11-plus examination, that concentrated on practical and vocational rather than academic subjects

(transitive) To change part of. / (intransitive) To be or become modified. / (transitive) To set bounds to; to moderate. / (grammar, transitive) To qualify the meaning of.

(colloquial) A person or thing's normal mode of operation.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see genetic, modification. / The deliberate modification of the genetic structure of an organism.

Alternative form of a la mode

(grammar) A word or clause that qualifies another word or clause ambiguously, possibly causing confusion with regard to the intended meaning.

(philosophy, logic) A valid form of argument in which the antecedent of a conditional proposition is affirmed, thereby entailing the affirmation of the consequent. Modus ponens has the form

Consisting of separate modules; especially where each module performs or fulfills some specified function and could be replaced by a similar module for the same function, independently of the other modules.

A person who serves as an example, whose behavior is emulated by others.

(computing) the state of a computer system in which the drives and interfaces are switched off, and the only task running is monitoring external activity, particularly a key press which restores the system to its active state from the random access memory.