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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
manner
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a haphazard way/manner/fashion
▪ I continued my studies in a rather haphazard way.
a relaxed attitude/manner/style etc
▪ She has a fairly relaxed approach to housework.
bedside manner
cheerful voice/smile/manner etc
▪ ‘I’m Robyn,’ she said with a cheerful smile.
▪ It does me good to see a cheerful face.
comedy of manners
confident smile/voice/manner etc
▪ He began to read in a calm confident voice.
detached way/manner
▪ She described what had happened in a cold and detached manner.
diffident manner/smile/voice etc
forthright manner
▪ She answered in her usual forthright manner.
impeccable manners
▪ She has taught her children impeccable manners.
in a timely manner/fashion (=as quickly as is reasonable in a particular situation)
▪ We aim to settle all valid claims in a timely manner.
in such a way/manner that/as to do sth
▪ He lectured in such a way that many in the audience found him impossible to understand.
laid-back attitude/manner/approach etc
▪ He is famed for his laid-back attitude.
sarcastic manner/smile/laugh etc
▪ ‘I thought so,’ she said with a sarcastic smile.
table manners
▪ Their children have very good table manners.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
▪ A tongue in cheek reminder to some one whose cheeks were bulging with bad manners.
▪ They were tolerating that redhead well enough in spite of his sullen bad manners.
▪ Loving does not cancel out such bad manners or excuse them, and she would not think so either ....
▪ Despite bad moods and worse manners, the car could always be tamed by appreciation, patience and just enough rein.
▪ It would be the height of bad manners, and I know you aren't that sort of person.
▪ They knew better than to insult their hosts by open mention of this superiority; such bad manners would disgrace the clan.
▪ This is my son and I apologise for his bad manners.
▪ It's thought bad manners not to offer a visitor a night of passion after tramping round the icy far north.
friendly
▪ His light-hearted and friendly manner enabled him to put over a very strong sales pitch without a hint of strain.
▪ They divorced in an amiable and friendly manner.
▪ The calm, friendly manner of Mr Major and his ministers has impressed their colleagues.
▪ He had the same bland good looks, the same friendly if formal manner and the same knack for courteous evasion.
▪ For example, if I perceive you to be friendly, then I am likely to act in a friendly manner towards you.
▪ The expert system can do all the mundane operations and still interface with the user in a most friendly manner.
▪ We could go about it in a friendly manner then - like people who have just met.
▪ Cyril saw Ellen coming and began to scratch his forearm in a friendly manner.
good
▪ Be on time and timely - it's good manners.
▪ So they argue about protocol and diplomatic good manners instead.
▪ Etiquette and good manners are not a middle-class pastime or an optional extra for nice people.
▪ Well, Uncle Sammler, you have good manners.
▪ And it was hard to reconcile his soft-spoken good manners with the ruthless determination of his business career.
▪ The L-4, even with automatic, provides more than adequate acceleration and is possessed of good road manners.
▪ But Max's kindness and good manners defeated my purpose totally.
▪ At a basic level it is necessary to foster an approach which emphasises responsibility, good manners and good working habits.
impeccable
▪ He had impeccable manners that somehow always reminded you of an older, bygone age.
▪ Valda and Varvara adore officers, their impeccable manners, their formal bearing, their white uniforms.
▪ Richard was tall for his age and personable, with impeccable manners and a strong sense of occasion.
▪ His parents were keen on the work ethic and equipped him with impeccable manners.
normal
▪ Candidates are advised to make application to the University in the normal manner for places on approved courses.
▪ This is then processed in the normal manner.
▪ Any model struck by a cannon ball takes a strength 10 hit resolved in the normal manner.
▪ Specific redundancies will be discussed with the unions in the normal manner.
▪ The target may make the usual response just as if it had been charged in the normal manner.
▪ He may cast spells in the normal manner as described in Warhammer Battle Magic.
▪ Other items may be chosen from the magic items in Warhammer Battle Magic in the normal manner.
▪ This moderates in time, after which the fish swims in a normal manner.
professional
▪ Insular Is it because they seem to package their major sporting events in a more professional manner?
▪ Naturally no professionals and professional bodies have full freedom to act in what they believe is a professional manner on all occasions.
▪ In all cases, advice must be given in an objective, balanced and professional manner.
▪ It is important that every aspect of the exhibition is covered in a thoroughly professional manner.
similar
▪ In a similar manner to many real-life problems, there is no absolute statement of quality.
▪ Sensitization scenes using realistic fears of the results of excessive drinking are constructed in a similar manner.
▪ We would all act on the assumption that others were acting in a similar manner.
▪ The covariance between the returns of two different securities may be estimated in a similar manner:.
▪ It is possible that Oct- 11 is activated in a similar manner in this cell line.
▪ Payment of Consulting Engineers fees should be dealt with in a similar manner to Adjusters fees.
▪ It is necessary to organise the compounds in such a way that they are treated in a similar manner to individual words.
▪ The mortar joint is attacked in a similar manner, remembering to always point the chisel inward, never out.
timely
▪ Actual repayment in a regular, timely manner.
▪ Miller resigned abruptly after Hallinan publicly criticized her for failing to report the incident to him in a timely manner.
usual
▪ His discomfort was extreme and obvious, but he did his best to ignore the pain in his usual stoic manner.
▪ This can be done quickly in the following manner: Test the corneal reflexes and facial sensation in the usual manner.
▪ These were fed into the system in the usual manner to create the required data base.
▪ The first two landed in the usual manner.
▪ Ben had stood up, facing it, and was staring at it in his usual intent manner.
▪ Each field may then be edited in the usual manner.
▪ But Jefferson just nodded, not in his usual jovial manner, and walked off with Brian Harley.
▪ At one point, however, her usual calm manner deserted her.
■ NOUN
table
▪ Are they conventional rules that we learn as we learn, say, table manners?
▪ Good table manners, I submit, are largely overrated.
▪ Their table manners perfectly reflect the slovenly appearance.
▪ We had breakfast and the girls immaculately executed the table manner lessons.
▪ Perdita thought, to take an example at random, that things like table manners were a stupid and repressive idea.
▪ The Independent On Sunday, for example, found Coleridge's fine table manners hugely amusing.
▪ Since dress, gait and table manners instantly distinguish social rank, all over the world, why not speech as well?
■ VERB
behave
▪ In reality variable costs do not behave strictly in this manner.
▪ I should not have lost my cool and behaved in that manner.
▪ Now why exactly are you behaving in this extraordinary manner?
▪ It was unthinkable that two vibrancers could behave in such a manner.
▪ Rationality According to classical criminology we mostly behave in a rational manner.
▪ A Newtonian dashpot also behaves in a predictable manner.
▪ Approved modules do not behave in this manner with respect to inheritance.
▪ If they behave in a manner that deserves punishment, they are punished.
speak
▪ For all men are eggs, in a manner of speaking.
▪ In a manner of speaking, of course.
▪ Well, in a manner of speaking.
▪ McGurk: In a manner of speaking, sir, no.
▪ And he is faithful to her in a manner of speaking.
▪ The stolen flowers had been, in a manner of speaking, restored.
▪ There was something spontaneous and lively in his manner of speaking that made whatever he was saying sound even better.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
assume a manner/air/expression etc
▪ No wonder the technique assumed an air of planet-wide importance.
▪ Oliver assumed an expression of extreme penitence.
▪ The only thing she could do was to assume an air of indifference.
mind your manners/language/p's and q's
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a young man with a slightly shy, awkward manner
▪ She has a very pleasant manner.
▪ She impressed everyone with her businesslike manner.
▪ The doctor had a relaxed and friendly manner.
▪ The driver's manner was very unfriendly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Being a dedicated tough cookie, he has delivered the goods in impressive manner.
▪ If the state acts in a manner not designed to promote social solidarity then, Duguit argued, this must be resisted.
▪ In what manner the ensuing sacrifice and suffering benefits the protagonists is never satisfactorily explained.
▪ Sarah frowned at the ardent manner of her sister but slowly followed her into the society.
▪ The manner is laconic yet earnest.
▪ There was something spontaneous and lively in his manner of speaking that made whatever he was saying sound even better.
▪ What they are now doing is compromising, in this half-baked manner, by raising the ante to 70.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manner

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.

    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.

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

  2. Characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's self, or the like; bearing; habitual style. [1913 Webster] Specifically:

    1. Customary method of acting; habit.

      Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them.
      --Acts xvii. 2.

      Air and manner are more expressive than words.
      --Richardson.

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

      Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
      --Emerson.

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

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

    The bread is in a manner common.
    --1 Sam. xxi.5.

  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.

    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: 2

  5. Ye tithe mint, and rue, and all manner of herbs.
    --Luke xi. 42.

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

    Note: In old usage, of was often omitted after manner, when employed in this sense. ``A manner Latin corrupt was her speech.''
    --Chaucer.

    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. 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.

    Syn: Method; mode; custom; habit; fashion; air; look; mien; aspect; appearance. See Method.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
manner

c.1200, "kind, sort, variety," from Anglo-French manere, Old French maniere "fashion, method, manner, way; appearance, bearing; custom" (12c., Modern French manière), from Vulgar Latin *manaria (source of Spanish manera, Portuguese maneira, Italian maniera), from fem. of Latin manuarius "belonging to the hand," from manus "hand" (see manual (adj.)). The French word also was borrowed by Dutch (manier), German (manier), Swedish (maner).\n

\nMeaning "customary practice" is from c.1300. Senses of "way of doing something; a personal habit or way of doing; way of conducting oneself toward others" are from c.1300. Meaning "specific nature, form, way something happens" is mid-14c. Of literature from 1660s. Most figurative meanings derive from the original sense "method of handling" which was extended when the word was used to translate Latin modus "method." Phrase manner of speaking is recorded from 1530s. To the manner born ("Hamlet" I iv.15) generally is used incorrectly and means "destined by birth to be subject to the custom."

Wiktionary
manner

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

WordNet
manner
  1. n. 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?"

Wikipedia
Männer (song)

Männer is a 1984 song by German singer Herbert Grönemeyer, released as the first single from the album 4630 Bochum.

The 'Männer' single release is still one of the most successful titles of Grönemeyer. The youth magazine Bravo described the song as "catchy male harassment". German magazine Der Spiegel described the song as "half satire, half eulogy, partly Men's Lib, partly Chauvi Restoration".

Männer (magazine)

Männer is a German lifestyle magazine for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, published by the German company Bruno Gmünder Verlag. Between 1989 and 2007, the magazine was published as Männer aktuell.

Manner (surname)

Manner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Eeva-Liisa Manner (1921–1995), Finnish poet, playwright and translator
  • Jan Männer (born 1982), German footballer
  • Kullervo Manner (1880–1939), Finnish Communist leader
  • Riikka Manner (born 1981), Finnish politician
Männer

Männer may refer to:

  • Männer (song), song by German singer Herbert Grönemeyer
  • Men..., film by German film director Doris Dörrie
Manner (confectionery)

Manner is a line of confectionery from the Austrian conglomerate, Josef Manner & Comp AG. The corporation, founded in 1890, produces a wide assortment of confectionery products. These include wafers, long-life confectionery, chocolate-based confectionery, sweets, cocoa and a variety of seasonal products.

The company's best-known product are the " Neapolitan wafers", introduced in 1898. They are sold in blocks of ten 47 x 17 x 17 mm hazelnut-cream filled wafers. The hazelnuts were originally imported from the Naples region in Italy, hence the name. The basic recipe has remained unchanged to this day.

The company logo is a picture of St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. This dates to the 1890s, when Josef Manner opened his first shop next to the Cathedral. The Archdiocese of Vienna and the Manner Company agreed that the company may use the cathedral in its logo in return for funding the wages of one stonemason performing repair work on the structure.

Usage examples of "manner".

He therefore rejoiced in the hope of seeing his own son accommodated with such a faithful attendant, in the person of young Fathom, on whom he resolved to bestow the same education he had planned for the other, though conveyed in such a manner as should be suitable to the sphere in which he was ordained to move.

In the same manner as the forest is an accomplice through its density, so the legislation was an accomplice by its obscurity.

The other possibility was that the entry of the German troops would take place in a peaceful manner, in which case it would be easy for the Fuehrer to accord Czechoslovakia a generous way of life of her own, autonomy, and a certain measure of national freedom.

Here Masonry pauses, and leaves its Initiates to carry out and develop these great Truths in such manner as to each may seem most accordant with reason, philosophy, truth, and his religious faith.

Instead of accounting for this, we shall proceed in our usual manner to exemplify it in the conduct of the lad above mentioned, who submitted to the persuasions of Mr.

These individual differences are highly important for us, as they afford materials for natural selection to accumulate, in the same manner as man can accumulate in any given direction individual differences in his domesticated productions.

But man can and does select the variations given to him by nature, and thus accumulate them in any desired manner.

The result is that we can only say that at some depth, probably less than a mile, the slowly accumulating ice would acquire such a temperature that, subjected to the weight above it, the material next the bottom would become molten, or at least converted into a sludgelike state, in which it could not rub against the bottom, or move stones in the manner of ordinary glaciers.

In reality, however, the accuser is attacking the witch, and in an extremely dangerous manner, too.

A filament with a bead at the end was affixed to the basal leg, the movements of which were observed during two days in the usual manner.

Circumnutation was observed in the above specified cases, either by means of extremely fine filaments of glass affixed to the radicles in the manner previously described, or by their being allowed to grow downwards over inclined smoked glassplates, on which they left their tracks.

Even this manner of building, though affording a certain security against slight tremblings, is not safe in the greater shocks.

His feet dangled over the debris trench which circled the perimeter of the table, and which the suit assured him was reeking in the manner approved by Affronter gourmets.

What Aley lacks in table manners, he makes up for in his knowledge of international banking.

As the historians looked the monks they were, so Allegro, in a manner of speaking, looked what he was.