"sequential" mode for CombinedLoader

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What does this PR do?

"sequential" will be the mode used by the Evaluation and Prediction loop dataloaders so that the dataloader loop can be flattened.

Includes minor attribute renames.

cc @Borda @justusschock @awaelchli

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