Manner vs Extent - What's the difference?
manner | extent |
Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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, title= Characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's self; bearing; habitual style.
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Customary method of acting; habit.
Carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well-bred carriage and address.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=6, title= The style of writing or thought of an author; characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
Certain degree or measure.
Sort; kind; style.
Standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.
A range of values or locations.
The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.
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(computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
As nouns the difference between manner and extent
is that manner is mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion while extent is a range of values or locations.As an adjective extent is
extended.manner
English
Noun
(en noun)- The treacherous manner of his mournful death.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
Derived terms
(terms derived from manner) * bad manners * bedside manner * good manners * manner of articulation * mannered * mannerism * mannerist * mannerless * mannerly * overmanner * table manners * to the manner bornStatistics
* ----extent
English
Noun
(en noun)- The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.