Modal screen elements are subtrees which, when activated, disable all elements external to them. Examples of modals are yes-no message boxes and the application itself.

When the sub got stuck, the brass kept the fact under wraps for 32 hours before Russia came clean and asked for foreign help.

Matsui, the Mitsubishi and other great families which had built up an octopuslike control of industry, banking and trade — would be put out of action.

What all this means is that the synonymies we standardly see across languages, and the homodoxies we standardly see across idiolects, are very seldom the perfect synonymies or homodoxies we might suppose them to be.