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Style

noun

1.

How something is done or how it happens. Synonyms: fashion, manner, mode, way. "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"

2.

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. Synonym: expressive style.

3.

A particular kind (as to appearance).

4.

The popular taste at a given time. Synonyms: trend, vogue. "He followed current trends" , "The 1920s had a style of their own"

5.

(botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma.

6.

Editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display.

7.

Distinctive and stylish elegance. Synonyms: dash, elan, flair, panache.

8.

A pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving. Synonym: stylus.

9.

A slender bristlelike or tubular process.

verb

(past & past part. styled; pres. part. styling)

1.

Designate by an identifying term. Synonym: title.

2.

Make consistent with a certain fashion or style. "Style the dress"

3.

Make consistent with certain rules of style.

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"Style" Quotes from Famous Books

... the 1st of April I know not. By the way I had a thing to say, but a certain false modesty has hitherto prevented me: perhaps I can best communicate my wish by a hint,—my birthday is on the 10th of February, New Style; but if it interferes with any remarkable event, why rather than my country should lose her fame, I care not if I put my nativity back eleven days. Fine family patronage for your "Calendar," if that old lady of prolific memory were living, who lies (or lyes) in some church in London (saints ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas

... Indians—towns which stood on their present sites when Coronado entered the country in 1541. They form an excellent part of the population, being temperate, frugal, and industrious. They dress in Indian style, and when at war paint and disfigure themselves like any other of the red peoples, so that a green soldier would see no difference between them and ...

— Captured by the Navajos • Charles A. Curtis

... on each mast, except the shortest mizen. She had a high forecastle and poop, from which the crew could shoot down upon the deck or waist of another vessel. The object was to have a sort of castle at each end of the ship. This style of shipbuilding was doubtless borrowed from the Venetians, then the greatest naval power in Europe. The length of the masts, the height of the ship above the water's edge, and the ornaments and decorations, were better adapted for the stillness of the ...

— Men of Invention and Industry • Samuel Smiles

... If this strange writer had any meaning, it must be:—Headly's criticism is just throughout, but conveyed in a style too figurative for prose composition. Chalmers's own remarks are wholly mistaken;—too silly for any criticism, drunk or sober, and in language too flat for any thing. In Daniel's Sonnets there is scarcely one good line; while his Hymen's ...

— Literary Remains, Vol. 2 • Coleridge

... Lucas saw Lady Cicely Treherne's carriage standing at the door. The style of the whole turnout impressed her. She ...

— A Simpleton • Charles Reade

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