Manner vs. Tone

Mannernoun

Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything

Mannernoun

Characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing

Mannernoun

One's customary method of acting; habit.

Mannernoun

good, polite behaviour

Mannernoun

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

Mannernoun

A certain degree or measure.

Mannernoun

Sort; kind; style.

Mannernoun

Standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.

Mannernoun

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

Mannernoun

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

Mannernoun

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

Mannernoun

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

Mannernoun

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

Mannernoun

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.

Mannernoun

how something is done or how it happens;

Mannernoun

a way of acting or behaving

Mannernoun

a kind;

Mannernoun

a way in which a thing is done or happens

Mannernoun

a style in literature or art

Mannernoun

a semantic category of adverbs and adverbials which answer the question ‘how?’

Mannernoun

a kind or sort

Mannernoun

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

Mannernoun

polite or well-bred social behaviour

Mannernoun

social behaviour or habits

Mannernoun

the way a motor vehicle handles or performs

Tonenoun

(music) A specific pitch.

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

General character, mood, or trend.

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

(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.

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

(obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.

Tonenoun

The shade or quality of a colour.

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

(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.

Tonenoun

(biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.

Toneverb

(transitive) to give a particular tone to

Toneverb

(transitive) to change the colour of

Toneverb

(transitive) to make (something) firmer

Toneverb

(intransitive) to harmonize, especially in colour

Toneverb

(transitive) To utter with an affected tone.

Tonepronoun

The one (of two).

Tonenoun

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.

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

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.

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

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.

Tonenoun

Tonicity; as, arterial tone.

Tonenoun

State of mind; temper; mood.

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

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.

Tonenoun

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.

Tonenoun

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.

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

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

Toneverb

To utter with an affected tone.

Toneverb

To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.

Toneverb

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

Tonenoun

the quality of a person's voice;

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

a steady sound without overtones;

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

a musical interval of two semitones

Tonenoun

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

Toneverb

utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically;

Toneverb

of one's speech, varying the pitch

Toneverb

change the color or tone of;

Toneverb

change to a color image;

Toneverb

give a healthy elasticity to;

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

a modulation of the voice expressing a particular feeling or mood

Tonenoun

a musical note or other sound used as a signal on a telephone or answering machine.

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

an atmosphere of respectability or class

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

the general effect of colour or of light and shade in a picture.

Tonenoun

a slight degree of difference in the intensity of a colour.

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

(in some languages, such as English) intonation on a word or phrase used to add functional meaning.

Tonenoun

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

Tonenoun

the normal level of activity in a nerve fibre

Toneverb

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

Toneverb

(of a muscle or other bodily part) became stronger or firmer

Toneverb

harmonize with (something) in terms of colour

Toneverb

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