Modal vs Manner - What's the difference?
modal | manner |
of, or relating to a mode or modus
(grammar) of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause
(grammar) modal verb
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(music) of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical music
(logic) of, or relating to the modality between propositions
(statistics) relating to the statistical mode.
(computing) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
(computer science) requiring immediate user interaction (often used as modal dialog'' or ''modal window )
(metaphysics) Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes
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.
As nouns the difference between modal and manner
is that modal is a modal proposition while manner is mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.As an adjective modal
is of, or relating to a mode or modus.modal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Using the same type of distributional criterion, we could argue that only a Verb (in its base form) can occur in the position marked — in (23) below to complete the sentence:
(23) They/it can —
[...]
Conversely, the only type of word which could be used to begin a three-word sentence such as (25) below:
(25) — I be frank?
is a Modal : cf. [...]
Synonyms
* forming * conditioningDerived terms
* modality * modally * modal auxiliary * modal logic * modal particle * quasimodalExternal links
* *Anagrams
* * * ----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.}}