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Noun

  1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.
  2. Characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's self, or the like; bearing; habitual style.
  3. Customary method of acting; habit.
  4. Carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well-bred carriage and address.
  5. The style of writing or thought of an author; characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
  6. Certain degree or measure; as, it is in a manner done already.
  7. Sort; kind; style; -- in this application sometimes having the sense of a plural, sorts or kinds.
  8. standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.


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Noun

  1. continent (in geological sense)
  2. :Euraasia on manner, mutta Eurooppa ei ole.
  3. ::Eurasia is a continent, but Europe is not (in this sense).
  4. the main island of Åland archipelago (Ahvenanmaan manner)
  5. As a modifier in compound terms, of or pertaining to the continent.


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Manner \Man"ner\, n. [OE. manere, F. mani[`e]re, from OF.
manier, adj., manual, skillful, handy, fr. (assumed) LL.
manarius, for L. manuarius belonging to the hand, fr. manus
the hand. See Manual.]
1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything;
method; style; form; fashion.
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The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in
the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the
God of the land. --2 Kings
xvii. 26.
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The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves
after a gentle, but very powerful, manner.
--Atterbury.
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2. Characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's
self, or the like; bearing; habitual style.
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(a) Customary method of acting; habit.
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Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them.
--Acts xvii.
2.
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Air and manner are more expressive than words.
--Richardson.
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(b) pl. Carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming
behavior; well-bred carriage and address; as, mind
your manners!.
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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
--Emerson.
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(c) The style of writing or thought of an author;
characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
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3. Certain degree or measure; as, it is in a manner done
already.
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The bread is in a manner common. --1 Sam.
xxi.5.
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4. Sort; kind; style; -- in this application sometimes having
the sense of a plural, sorts or kinds; as, all manners of
people came to the rally.
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And they being afraid wondered, saying to one
another, What manner of man is this! for he
commandeth even the winds and the water, and they
obey him. --Luke 8: 25.

Ye tithe mint, and rue, and all manner of herbs.
--Luke xi. 42.
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I bid thee say,
What manner of man art thou? --Coleridge.
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Note: In old usage, of was often omitted after manner, when
employed in this sense. "A manner Latin corrupt was her
speech." --Chaucer.
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By any manner of means, in any way possible; by any sort of
means.

To be taken in the manner or To be taken with the manner.
[A corruption of to be taken in the mainor. See Mainor.]
To be taken in the very act. [Obs.] See Mainor.

To make one's manners, to make a bow or courtesy; to offer
salutation.

Manners bit, a portion left in a dish for the sake of good
manners. --Hallwell.
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Syn: Method; mode; custom; habit; fashion; air; look; mien;
aspect; appearance. See Method.
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WordNet manner
n 1: how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified
manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic
mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York
style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion"
[syn: mode, style, way, fashion]
2: a way of acting or behaving [syn: personal manner]
3: a kind; "what manner of man are you?"
Moby Dictionary
MO , action , actions , activity , acts , address , affectation ,
affectedness , air , algorithm , amenities , angle , appearance ,
approach , area , aspect , attack , attitude , bag , bearing , behavior ,
behavior pattern , behavioral norm , behavioral science , blood ,
bon ton , brand , breed , carriage , cast , ceremony , character ,
civility , clan , color , command of language , complexion ,
comportment , conduct , configuration , conformity , consuetude ,
convention , course , culture pattern , cup of tea , custom , decorum ,
demeanor , denomination , deportment , description , designation ,
doing , doings , effect , eidolon , established way , etiquette ,
exaggeration , expression of ideas , exteriority , externality ,
externalness , extrinsicality , facet , fashion , feather , feature ,
feeling for words , field , figure , folkway , foreignness , form ,
form of speech , formalities , forte , genre , genus , gestalt ,
gestures , goings-on , good form , grace of expression , grain ,
grandiloquence , guise , habit , habitude , idiosyncrasy , ilk , image ,
imago , impression , inflation , kidney , kin , kind , label , light ,
likeness , line , line of action , lineaments , lines , literary style ,
long suit , look , lot , main interest , maintien , make ,
manner of speaking , manner of working , mannerism , manners , mark ,
means , method , methodology , methods , metier , mien , mode ,
mode of expression , mode of operation , mode of procedure , modus ,
modus operandi , modus vivendi , mold , mores , motions , movements ,
moves , nature , niceties , number , observable behavior , observance ,
openness , order , outerness , outward appearance , outwardness ,
pattern , peculiarity , personal style , persuasion , pet subject ,
phase , phasis , phylum , poise , politeness , politesse , port , pose ,
posture , practice , praxis , prescription , presence , procedure ,
proceeding , process , proper thing , proprieties , protocol , pursuit ,
race , reference , regard , respect , rhetoric , ritual , routine ,
seeming , semblance , sense of language , shallowness , shape , side ,
simulacrum , slant , social code , social convention , social graces ,
social science , sort , specialism , speciality , specialization ,
specialty , species , stamp , standard behavior , standard usage ,
standing custom , strain , stripe , strong point , style ,
stylistic analysis , stylistics , superficiality , system , tack ,
tactics , technicality , technique , tenor , the drill ,
the grand style , the how , the like of , the likes of ,
the plain style , the sublime , the way of , thing ,
time-honored practice , tone , total effect , tradition , tribe , trick ,
turn , twist , type , usage , use , variety , vein , view , viewpoint ,
vocation , way , way of life , ways , weakness , what is done , wise ,
wont , wonting


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