transcription, транскрипция: [ mu:d ]
( moods)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Your mood is the way you are feeling at a particular time. If you are in a good mood , you feel cheerful. If you are in a bad mood , you feel angry and impatient.
He is clearly in a good mood today...
When he came back, he was in a foul mood...
His moods swing alarmingly.
N-COUNT : with supp , oft adj N , oft in N
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If you say that you are in the mood for something, you mean that you want to do it or have it. If you say that you are in no mood to do something, you mean that you do not want to do it or have it.
After a day of air and activity, you should be in the mood for a good meal...
He was in no mood to celebrate.
PHRASE : v-link PHR , PHR after v , oft PHR for n / -ing , PHR to-inf
2.
If someone is in a mood , the way they are behaving shows that they are feeling angry and impatient.
She was obviously in a mood.
= temper
N-COUNT : oft in a N
3.
The mood of a group of people is the way that they think and feel about an idea, event, or question at a particular time.
They largely misread the mood of the electorate.
N-SING : usu with supp , oft with poss
4.
The mood of a place is the general impression that you get of it.
First set the mood with music...
= atmosphere
N-COUNT
5.
In grammar, the mood of a clause is the way in which the verb forms are used to show whether the clause is, for example, a statement, a question, or an instruction.
N-VAR