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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

... he pursued his studies, his mind was in a perfect state of chaos. Of the chapter which he had striven to compass the previous night, in which the rights of persons are discussed with the usual clearness of style, but the usual one-sidedness of judgment of that smooth old monarchist, William Hinkley scarcely remembered a solitary syllable. He had read only with his eyes. His mind had kept no pace with his proceedings, ...

— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms

... hope to disguise their social defects by buying old places, and hiding among aristocratic furniture; just so a great artist who has to deal with characters artistically imperfect will use an ornate style, will fit them into a scene where there is much else ...

— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various

... You're set ag'in Martha, and your pride's touched, which I can't say as I wonder at, all folks havin' pride, me among the rest, not that I've much to be proud of, Goodness knows; but never mind, don't you talk about Gilbert Potter in that style, leastways before me!" ...

— The Story Of Kennett • Bayard Taylor

... of France, of whose bread I have eaten so much that I feel under an obligation to prevent whatever can give the least umbrage to our masters. M. de la Barre is a very worthy gentleman, but he has not written to me in a civil and befitting style." [Footnote: Dongan to Denonville, 13 Oct., 1685, in N. Y. ...

— Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV • Francis Parkman

... it please you Mr. Smooth—Citizen of the United States—excuse these things for the present,' rejoined Dablerdeen, who looked as if he did not know which way to turn, or how to please his people. Seeing this I sat down and watched the very odd style in which they played the game. Dablerdeen did all the talking, and Littlejohn, whom the reader will see had returned home helped him make his muff; and then there was a good deal of assisting one another to forget ...

— The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth • Timothy Templeton

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