Manner vs. Style — What's the Difference?

A way in which a thing is done or happens

A particular procedure by which something is done; a manner or way

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

A distinctive appearance, typically determined by the principles according to which something is designed

Polite or well-bred social behaviour

Fashionable elegance and sophistication

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

(in a flower) a narrow, typically elongated extension of the ovary, bearing the stigma.

A way of acting; bearing or behavior

(in an invertebrate) a small, slender pointed appendage; a stylet.

The socially correct way of acting; etiquette

Archaic term for stylus (sense 2)

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

Design or make in a particular form

Practice, style, execution, or method in the arts

Designate with a particular name, description, or title

Kind; sort

The way in which something is said, done, expressed, or performed

Kinds; sorts

The combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression, execution, or performance characterizing a particular person, group, school, or era.

Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything

Sort; type

Characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing

A quality of imagination and individuality expressed in one's actions and tastes

One's customary method of acting; habit.

A comfortable and elegant mode of existence

Good, polite behaviour.

A mode of living

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

The fashion of the moment, especially of dress; vogue

A certain degree or measure.

A particular fashion

Sort; kind; style.

A customary manner of presenting printed material, including usage, punctuation, spelling, typography, and arrangement

Standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.

A name or title

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

An implement used for etching or engraving.

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

A slender pointed writing instrument used by the ancients on wax tablets.

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

The needle of a phonograph.

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

The gnomon of a sundial.

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

(Botany) The usually slender part of a pistil, connecting the ovary and the stigma.

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.

(Zoology) A slender, tubular, or bristlelike process

How something is done or how it happens;

(Medicine) A surgical probing instrument; a stylet.

A way of acting or behaving

(Obsolete) A pen.

A kind;

To design or fashion in a certain way

To arrange (hair) in a certain way, as by cutting, coloring, or curling.

To call or name; designate

To make consistent with rules of style

Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.

(historical) A sharp stick used for writing on clay tablets or other surfaces; a stylus; an instrument used to write with ink; a pen.

A tool with a sharp point used in engraving; a burin, a graver, a stylet, a stylus.

The gnomon or pin of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.

(botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.

(surgery) A kind of surgical instrument with a blunt point, used for exploration.

(zoology) A small, thin, pointed body part.

(by extension from sense 1.1) A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good.

A legal or traditional term or formula of words used to address or refer to a person, especially a monarch or a person holding a post or having a title.

A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art.

A particular manner of acting or behaving; (specifically) one regarded as fashionable or skilful; flair, grace.

A particular way in which one grooms, adorns, dresses, or carries oneself; (specifically) a way thought to be attractive or fashionable.

(computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as boldface or italics.

A set of rules regarding the presentation of text (spelling, typography, the citation of references, etc.) and illustrations that is applied by a publisher to the works it produces.

(transitive) To design, fashion, make, or arrange in a certain way or form (style)

To call or give a name or title to.

To create for, or give to, someone a style, fashion, or image, particularly one which is regarded as attractive, tasteful, or trendy.

To act in a way which seeks to show that one possesses style.

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.

Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use.

A pen; an author's pen.

Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression.

A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.

Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing in idea or accomplishing a result.

A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.

Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion.

A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects.

Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated; the title; the official designation of any important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty.

The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon.

A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.

To entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate.

A particular kind (as to appearance);

How something is done or how it happens;

A way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period;

Distinctive and stylish elegance;

The popular taste at a given time;

(botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma

Editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display

A pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving;

A slender bristlelike or tubular process;

Designate by an identifying term;

Make consistent with a certain fashion or style;

Make consistent with certain rules of style;