(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Your ~ is the way you are feeling at a particular time. If you are in a good ~, you feel cheerful. If you are in a bad ~, you feel angry and impatient.
He is clearly in a good ~ today...
When he came back, he was in a foul ~...
His ~s swing alarmingly.
N-COUNT: with supp, oft adj N, oft in N
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If you say that you are in the ~ for something, you mean that you want to do it or have it. If you say that you are in no ~ 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 ~ for a good meal...
He was in no ~ to celebrate.
PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR after v, oft PHR for n/-ing, PHR to-inf
2.
If someone is in a ~, the way they are behaving shows that they are feeling angry and impatient.
She was obviously in a ~.
= temper
N-COUNT: oft in a N
3.
The ~ 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 ~ of the electorate.
N-SING: usu with supp, oft with poss
4.
The ~ of a place is the general impression that you get of it.
First set the ~ with music...
= atmosphere
N-COUNT
5.
In grammar, the ~ 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