Manner vs. Tone — What's the Difference?

A way in which a thing is done or happens

A musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength

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

The general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.

Polite or well-bred social behaviour

A basic interval in classical Western music, equal to two semitones and separating, for example, the first and second notes of an ordinary scale (such as C and D, or E and F sharp); a major second

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

The particular quality of brightness, deepness, or hue of a shade of a colour

A way of acting; bearing or behavior

(in some languages, such as Chinese) a particular pitch pattern on a syllable used to make semantic distinctions.

The socially correct way of acting; etiquette

The normal level of firmness or slight contraction in a resting muscle

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

Give greater strength or firmness to (the body or a muscle)

Practice, style, execution, or method in the arts

Harmonize with (something) in terms of colour

Kind; sort

Give (a monochrome picture) an altered colour in finishing by means of a chemical solution

Kinds; sorts

A sound of distinct pitch, quality, and duration; a note.

Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything

The interval of a major second in the diatonic scale; a whole step.

Characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing

A recitational melody in a Gregorian chant.

One's customary method of acting; habit.

The quality or character of sound.

Good, polite behaviour.

The characteristic quality or timbre of a particular instrument or voice.

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

The pitch of a word used to determine its meaning or to distinguish differences in meaning.

A certain degree or measure.

The particular or relative pitch of a word, phrase, or sentence.

Sort; kind; style.

Manner of expression in speech or writing

Standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.

A general quality, effect, or atmosphere

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

A color or shade of color

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

Quality of color

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

The general effect in painting of light, color, and shade.

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

The normal state of elastic tension or partial contraction in resting muscles.

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

Normal firmness of a tissue or an organ.

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.

To give a particular tone or inflection to.

How something is done or how it happens;

To soften or change the color of (a painting or photographic negative, for example).

A way of acting or behaving

To sound monotonously; intone.

A kind;

To make firmer or stronger. Often used with up

To assume a particular color quality.

To harmonize in color.

(music) A specific pitch.

(music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.

(music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.

The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.

(linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.

(dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.

(literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.

(obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.

The shade or quality of a colour.

The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.

The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.

(biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.

(biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.

A gun

(figuratively)

The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.).

(Chiefly in the form lower/raise the tone of something) The quality of being respectable or admirable.

(transitive) to give a particular tone to

(transitive) to change the colour of

(transitive) to make (something) firmer

(transitive) to utter with an affected tone.

The one (of two)

Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.

A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.

A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.

That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.

Tonicity; as, arterial tone.

State of mind; temper; mood.

Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.

General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.

The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; - commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone.

Quality, with respect to attendant feeling; the more or less variable complex of emotion accompanying and characterizing a sensation or a conceptual state; as, feeling tone; color tone.

Color quality proper; - called also hue. Also, a gradation of color, either a hue, or a tint or shade.

The condition of normal balance of a healthy plant in its relations to light, heat, and moisture.

To utter with an affected tone.

To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.

The quality of a person's voice;

(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages;

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound);

The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people;

A quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color;

A notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound;

A steady sound without overtones;

The elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli;

A musical interval of two semitones

The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author;

Utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically;

Of one's speech, varying the pitch

Change the color or tone of;

Change to a color image;

Give a healthy elasticity to;