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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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— Lothair • Benjamin Disraeli

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... friend, thy style I'd change to happier lays, Oh! then the cloister'd glooms should smile, And through the long, the fretted aisle Should swell ...

— The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White - With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas • Henry Kirke White

... singing in the big MONIEP or town-house, stopped their monotonous droning, and the name of Tibakwa, was yelled vociferously through-out the village in true Gilbert Group style. In the Gilberts, if a native in one corner of a house speaks to another in the opposite, he bawls loud enough to be heard a ...

— By Reef and Palm • Louis Becke

... of the chase when he lays it down as a rule never to be departed from, that hounds of every kind should be kept to their own game. They should have one scent, and one style of hunting. Harriers will run a fox in so different a style from the pursuit of a hare, that they will not readily, and often will not at all, return to their proper work. The difference in the scent, and the eagerness of pursuit, and the noise that ...

— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt

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