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style /stīl/ noun- The manner of writing, mode of expressing thought in language or of expression, execution, action or bearing generally
- A literary composition (obsolete)
- The distinctive manner peculiar to an author or other
- The particular custom or form observed, as by a printing house in optional matters (house style), or by lawyers in drawing up deeds
- Designation
- Manner, form, fashion, esp when considered superior or desirable
- An air of fashion or consequence
- A kind or type
- A slender structure of various kinds (biology)
- The slender part of the pistil of a flower connecting the stigma and the ovary (botany)
- A hand, pointer, index
- The gnomon of a dial
- A pointed instrument for writing on wax tablets
- A similar instrument or tool of various kinds, such as a graver, a blunt probe, a tracing or cutting point
- A mode of reckoning dates, ie Old Style, according to the Julian calendar, as in Britain until 1752, Russia until 1917, and New Style, according to the Gregorian calendar, adopted in Britain by omitting eleven days, 3 to 13 September 1752
transitive verb- To arrange or dictate the fashion or style of
- To designate
adjective and adv combining form In the style of, resembling ORIGIN: L stilus a writing instrument, literary composition or style, confused with Gr stȳlos a column; in some senses perh from the Gr word styˈlar adjective styˈlate adjective Having a style or a persistent style styleˈless adjective styˈler noun A device for styling the hair styˈlet or stīˈlet noun - A probe
- A wire in a catheter
- A small bristle-like projection (biology)
- An engraving tool
- A writing instrument
- A piercing part of an insect's jaws
- A stiletto
stylifˈerous adjective (botany and zoology) Bearing a slender structure of various kinds styˈliform adjective (botany and zoology) Shaped like a style or a bristle styˈlish adjective - Displaying style
- Fashionable
- Showy
- Imposingly smart
styˈlishly adverb styˈlishness noun styˈlist noun - A person with a distinctive and fine (esp literary, etc) style
- A person who creates or arranges a style, esp in hairdressing
stylistˈic adjective and noun stylistˈically adverb stylisˈtics singular noun The science of the variations in language, including the effective values of different words, forms, and sounds, that constitute style in the literary and also the wider sense stylīzāˈtion or stylīsāˈtion noun styˈlize or styˈlise transitive verb - To give an elaborate, esp non-naturalistic, style to
- To conventionalize
styˈloid adjective (botany and zoology) - Like a style or bristle
- Forming a slender process
noun A spiny process, esp that of the temporal bone in the skull styleˈbook noun A book of forms for deeds, etc, or rules for printers and editors styleˈsheet noun (computing) A set of type specifications, layout instructions, etc used as a template for documents in desktop publishing or in assembling web pages in style In a grand manner |