Is there a difference between a gift of the spirit and a manifestation of the spirit?

The phrase ‘manifestation of the Spirit’ appears only once in the Bible, in 1Cor. 12:7:

To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

Here it is used to describe the various gifts of the spirit: the spirit gifts were ‘manifestations of the spirit’.

‘Manifestation’ means something like ‘the act of demonstrating’,¹ or an ‘an open display’ of something,² so the spirit gifts were ‘demonstrations’ of the holy spirit.

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Notes

1. Collins English Dictionary (HarperCollins Publishers, 2003)

2. Cf. the same Greek word as used in 2Cor. 4:2 (HCSB).