style
v.
plan, design; name, call
n.
manner, way; particular way of life (especially one that is luxurious); fashion, chic; vogue; ancient writing instrument; part of a pistil (Botany); stylet; slender pointed process (Zoology)
Style
Style may refer to:a pair of extra appendages located on the last segment of a male cockroach.
Genre,
design,
format, or
looksFashion, applies to a prevailing mode of expression, i.e. clothing.
Carpel, in botany: part of the pistil of a flowerThe artistic characteristics which signify, unify or distinguishes an artist's work
Painting style, in art and painting style can refer either to the aesthetic values followed in choosing what to paint (and how) or to the physical techniques employed
Music genre, category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or "basic musical language"
Style (manner of address), titles or honorifics, including Chinese courtesy names
Cascading Style Sheets, in web design
Style guide and
literary genre, in writing
Stylistics (linguistics), in Linguistics: Variation in the language use of an individual, such as formal/informal style
Typeface, style is one of the three traditional design features along with size and weight: either regular, italic or condensedNot to be confused with
stile, a step used for crossing a fence
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style
Noun
1. a particular kind (as to appearance); "this style of shoe is in demand"
(hypernym) kind, sort, form, variety
2. 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"
(synonym) manner, mode, way, fashion
(hypernym) property
(hyponym) artistic style, idiom
(derivation) stylize, stylise, conventionalize
3. a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"
(synonym) expressive style
(hypernym) communication
(hyponym) allegory
(derivation) stylize, stylise, conventionalize
(classification) language, linguistic communication
4. distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer"
(synonym) dash, elan, flair, panache
(hypernym) elegance
5. the popular taste at a given time; "leather is the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style of their own"
(synonym) vogue, trend
(hypernym) taste, appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness
(hyponym) New Look
(derivation) stylize, stylise, conventionalize
6. (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma
(hypernym) reproductive structure
(hyponym) stylopodium
(part-holonym) pistil
(part-meronym) stigma
(classification) botany, phytology
7. editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display
(hypernym) direction, instruction
8. a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving; "he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus"
(synonym) stylus
(hypernym) tool
9. a slender bristlelike or tubular process; "a cartilaginous style"
(hypernym) process, outgrowth, appendage
(hyponym) stylet
Verb
1. designate by an identifying term; "They styled their nation `The Confederate States'"
(synonym) title
(hypernym) name, call
2. make consistent with a certain fashion or style; "Style my hair"; "style the dress"
(hypernym) make, create
(hyponym) pompadour
(classification) fashion
3. make consistent with certain rules of style; "style a manuscript"
(hypernym) write
style (m)
n.
style, design; pattern, character; diction, stylus
Style
(v. t.)
To entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate.
(v. t.)
The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon.
(v. t.)
The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.
(v. t.)
Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated; the title; the official designation of any important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty.
(v. t.)
Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing in idea or accomplishing a result.
(v. t.)
Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression.
(v. t.)
Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use.
(v. t.)
Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion.
(v. t.)
An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.
(v. t.)
A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
(v. t.)
A pen; an author's pen.
(v. t.)
A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
(v. t.)
A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects.
(v. t.)
A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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