Styles

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 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 workPainting 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 employedMusic 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 namesCascading Style Sheets, in web designStyle guide and literary genre, in writingStylistics (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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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

n. style, design; pattern, character; diction, stylus

han2 dan1 xue2 bu4
Imitating Handan people in walking.
Describing a person who imitates people so much that he forgets his own originality. The crow loses its own gait when it attempts to walk like a swan. Compare with 东施效颦 (dong1 shi1 xiao4 pin2) and 亦步亦趋 (yi4 bu4 yi4 qu1).