Form vs. Manner — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Form and Manner

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Form

The shape and structure of an object

The form of a snowflake.

Manner

A way in which a thing is done or happens

Taking notes in an unobtrusive manner

Form

The body or outward appearance of a person or an animal; figure

In the fog we could see two forms standing on the bridge.

Manner

A person's outward bearing or way of behaving towards others

His arrogance and pompous manner

Form

A model of the human figure or part of it used for displaying clothes.

Manner

Polite or well-bred social behaviour

Didn't your mother teach you any manners?

Form

A mold for the setting of concrete.

Manner

A way of doing something or the way in which a thing is done or happens

Prepared for the trip in a very organized manner.

Form

The way in which a thing exists, acts, or manifests itself

An element usually found in the form of a gas.

Manner

A way of acting; bearing or behavior

He is known for his reserved manner.

Form

(Philosophy) The essential or ideal nature of something, especially as distinguished from its matter or material being.

Manner

The socially correct way of acting; etiquette

Had trouble mastering manners in his new country.

Form

A kind, type, or variety

A cat is a form of mammal.

Manner

The prevailing customs, social conduct, and norms of a specific society, period, or group, especially as the subject of a literary work

A novel of 18th-century manners.

Form

(Botany) A subdivision of a variety usually differing in one trivial characteristic, such as flower color.

Manner

Practice, style, execution, or method in the arts

This fresco is typical of the painter's early manner.

Form

Method of arrangement or manner of coordinating elements in verbal or musical composition

Presented my ideas in outline form.

A treatise in the form of a dialogue.

Manner

Kind; sort

What manner of person is she?.

Form

A particular type or example of such arrangement

The essay is a literary form.

Manner

Kinds; sorts

Saw all manner of people at the mall.

Form

Procedure as determined or governed by regulation or custom

Gave his consent solely as a matter of form.

Manner

Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything

Form

Manners or conduct as governed by etiquette, decorum, or custom

Arriving late to a wedding is considered bad form.

Manner

Characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing

His natural manner makes him seem like the boss.

Form

A fixed order of words or procedures, as for use in a ceremony

"As they had never had a funeral aboard a ship, they began rehearsing the forms so as to be ready" (Arthur Conan Doyle).

Manner

One's customary method of acting; habit.

These people have strange manners.

Form

A document with blanks for the insertion of details or information

Insurance forms.

Manner

Good, polite behaviour.

Form

Performance considered with regard to acknowledged criteria

A musician at the top of her form.

Manner

The style of writing or thought of an author; the characteristic peculiarity of an artist.

Form

A pattern of behavior or performance

Remained true to form and showed up late.

Manner

A certain degree or measure.

It is in a manner done already.

Form

Fitness, as of an athlete or animal, with regard to health or training

A dog in excellent form.

Manner

Sort; kind; style.

All manner of persons participate.

Form

A racing form.

Manner

Standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.

Form

A grade in a British secondary school or in some American private schools

The sixth form.

Manner

Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.

The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful, manner.

Form

A linguistic form.

Manner

Characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's self, or the like; bearing; habitual style.

Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them.

Air and manner are more expressive than words.

Form

The external aspect of words with regard to their inflections, pronunciation, or spelling.

Manner

Carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well-bred carriage and address; as, mind your manners!.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Form

Chiefly British A long seat; a bench.

Manner

Certain degree or measure; as, it is in a manner done already.

The bread is in a manner common.

Form

The lair or resting place of a hare.

Manner

The style of writing or thought of an author; characteristic peculiarity of an artist.

Form

To give form to; shape

Form clay into figures.

Manner

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.

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.

Ye tithe mint, and rue, and all manner of herbs.

I bid thee say,What manner of man art thou?

Form

To make or fashion by shaping

Form figures out of clay.

Manner

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

Form

To develop in the mind; conceive

Her reading led her to form a different opinion.

Manner

A way of acting or behaving

Form

To arrange oneself in

Holding out his arms, the cheerleader formed a T. The acrobats formed a pyramid.

Manner

A kind;

What manner of man are you?

Form

To organize or arrange

The environmentalists formed their own party.

Form

To fashion, train, or develop by instruction, discipline, or precept

Formed the recruits into excellent soldiers.

Form

To come to have; develop or acquire

He formed the habit of walking to work.

Form

To enter into (a relationship)

They formed a friendship.

Form

To constitute or compose, especially out of separate elements

The bones that form the skeleton.

Form

To produce (a tense, for example) by inflection

Form the pluperfect.

Form

To make (a word) by derivation or composition.

Form

To become formed or shaped

Add enough milk so the dough forms easily into balls.

Form

To come into being by taking form; arise

Clouds will form in the afternoon.

Form

To assume a specified form, shape, or pattern

The soldiers formed into a column.

Form

To do with shape.

Form

The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.

Form

A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.

Form

Regularity, beauty, or elegance.

Form

(philosophy) The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.

Form

Characteristics not involving atomic components. en

Form

(dated) A long bench with no back.

Form

(fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.

Form

(crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.

Form

(social) To do with structure or procedure.

Form

An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.

Form

Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.

Form

Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.

A republican form of government

Form

Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.

A matter of mere form

Form

(archaic) A class or rank in society.

Form

(UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).

Form

Level of performance.

The team's form has been poor this year.

The orchestra was on top form this evening.

Form

A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).

Form

A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.

To apply for the position, complete the application form.

Form

A specimen document to be copied or imitated.

Form

(grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.

Participial forms;

Verb forms

Form

The den or home of a hare.

Form

A window or dialogue box.

Form

Essentials

Form

(taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.

Form

The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.

Form

(geometry) A quantic.

Form

A specific way of performing a movement.

Form

(transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).

When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.

Form

(transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.

Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet.

Form

(intransitive) To take shape.

When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.

Form

To put together or bring into being; assemble.

The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government.

Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960.

Form

To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.

By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.

Form

(transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.

Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.

Form

To mould or model by instruction or discipline.

Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.

Form

To provide (a hare) with a form.

Form

To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.

Form

The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance.

The form of his visage was changed.

And woven close close, both matter, form, and style.

Form

Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.

Form

Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer.

Those whom form of lawsCondemned to die.

Form

Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form.

Though well we may not pass upon his lifeWithout the form of justice.

Form

Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty.

The earth was without form and void.

He hath no form nor comeliness.

Form

A shape; an image; a phantom.

Form

That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.

Form

A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.

Form

The seat or bed of a hare.

As in a form sitteth a weary hare.

Form

The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.

Form

The boundary line of a material object. In (painting), more generally, the human body.

Form

The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.

Form

The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.

Form

That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; - called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law.

Form

Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of.

Form

The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.

Form

To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.

God formed man of the dust of the ground.

The thought that labors in my forming brain.

Form

To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train.

'T is education forms the common mind.

Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind.

Form

To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; - said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part.

The diplomatic politicians . . . who formed by far the majority.

Form

To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.

Form

To treat (plates) so as to bring them to fit condition for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but now the plates or grids are coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.

Form

To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.

Form

To run to a form, as a hare.

Form

The phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something;

The inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached

Form

A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality;

Sculpture is a form of art

What kinds of desserts are there?

Form

A perceptual structure;

The composition presents problems for students of musical form

A visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them

Form

Any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline);

He could barely make out their shapes through the smoke

Form

Alternative names for the body of a human being;

Leonardo studied the human body

He has a strong physique

The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

Form

The spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance;

Geometry is the mathematical science of shape

Form

The visual appearance of something or someone;

The delicate cast of his features

Form

(physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary;

The reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system

Form

A printed document with spaces in which to write;

He filled out his tax form

Form

(biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups;

A new strain of microorganisms

Form

An arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse;

The essay was in the form of a dialogue

He first sketches the plot in outline form

Form

A particular mode in which something is manifested;

His resentment took the form of extreme hostility

Form

A body of students who are taught together;

Early morning classes are always sleepy

Form

An ability to perform well;

He was at the top of his form

The team was off form last night

Form

A life-size dummy used to display clothes

Form

A mold for setting concrete;

They built elaborate forms for pouring the foundation

Form

To compose or represent:

This wall forms the background of the stage setting

The branches made a roof

This makes a fine introduction

Form

Create (as an entity);

Social groups form everywhere

They formed a company

Form

Develop into a distinctive entity;

Our plans began to take shape

Form

Give a shape or form to;

Shape the dough

Form

Make something, usually for a specific function;

She molded the riceballs carefully

Form cylinders from the dough

Shape a figure

Work the metal into a sword

Form

Establish or impress firmly in the mind;

We imprint our ideas onto our children

Form

Give shape to;

Form the clay into a head

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