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style
[stahyl] 
,noun, verb styled, styl⋅ing.–noun
| 1. | a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character: the baroque style; The style of the house was too austere for their liking. |
| 2. | a particular, distinctive, or characteristic mode of action or manner of acting: They do these things in a grand style. |
| 3. | a mode of living, as with respect to expense or display. |
| 4. | an elegant, fashionable, or luxurious mode of living: to live in style. |
| 5. | a mode of fashion, as in dress, esp. good or approved fashion; elegance; smartness. |
| 6. | the mode of expressing thought in writing or speaking by selecting and arranging words, considered with respect to clearness, effectiveness, euphony, or the like, that is characteristic of a group, period, person, personality, etc.: to write in the style of Faulkner; a familiar style; a pompous, pedantic style. |
| 7. | those components or features of a literary composition that have to do with the form of expression rather than the content of the thought expressed: His writing is all style and no substance. |
| 8. | manner or tone adopted in discourse or conversation: a patronizing style of addressing others. |
| 9. | a particular, distinctive, or characteristic mode or form of construction or execution in any art or work: Her painting is beginning to show a personal style. |
| 10. | a descriptive or distinguishing appellation, esp. a legal, official, or recognized title: a firm trading under the style of Smith, Jones, & Co. |
| 11. | stylus (defs. 1, 2). |
| 12. | the gnomon of a sundial. |
| 13. | a method of reckoning time. Compare New Style, old style (def. 2). |
| 14. | Zoology. a small, pointed process or part. |
| 15. | Botany. a narrow, usually cylindrical and more or less filiform extension of the pistil, which, when present, bears the stigma at its apex. |
| 16. | the rules or customs of typography, punctuation, spelling, and related matters used by a newspaper, magazine, publishing house, etc., or in a specific publication. |
–verb (used with object)
| 17. | to call by a given title or appellation; denominate; name; call: The pope is styled His or Your Holiness. |
| 18. | to design or arrange in accordance with a given or new style: to style an evening dress; to style one's hair. |
| 19. | to bring into conformity with a specific style or give a specific style to: Please style this manuscript. |
–verb (used without object)
—Idioms| 20. | to do decorative work with a style or stylus. |
| 21. | go out of style, to become unfashionable: The jacket he's wearing went out of style ten years ago. |
| 22. | in style, fashionable. |
Origin:
1250–1300; ME (n.) < L stylus, sp. var. of stilus tool for writing, hence, written composition, style; see stylus
1250–1300; ME (n.) < L stylus, sp. var. of stilus tool for writing, hence, written composition, style; see stylus
Related forms:
styleless, adjective
style⋅less⋅ness, noun
stylelike, adjective
Synonyms:
2. method, approach. 5. chic. See fashion. 9. touch, characteristic, mark. 22. designate, address.
2. method, approach. 5. chic. See fashion. 9. touch, characteristic, mark. 22. designate, address.
-style
2| a combining form with the meanings “column,” “columned,” “having columns (of the kind specified)” used in the formation of compound words: orthostyle; urostyle. |
sty⋅lus
[stahy-luhs] –noun, plural -li [-lahy] , -lus⋅es.
[-lahy] , -lus⋅es. | 1. | an instrument of metal, bone, or the like, used by the ancients for writing on waxed tablets, having one end pointed for incising the letters and the other end blunt for rubbing out writing and smoothing the tablet. |
| 2. | any of various pointed, pen-shaped instruments used in drawing, artwork, etc. |
| 3. | Computers. a pen-shaped device used on a display screen to input commands or handwritten text or drawings. |
| 4. | Audio.
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| 5. | any of various pointed wedges used to punch holes in paper or other material, as in writing Braille. |
| 6. | any of various kinds of pens for tracing a line automatically, as on a recording seismograph or electrocardiograph. |
Also, style (for defs. 1, 2).
Origin:
1720–30; < L: sp. var. of stilus stake, pointed writing instrument; sp. with -y- from fancied derivation < Gk stŷlos column
1720–30; < L: sp. var. of stilus stake, pointed writing instrument; sp. with -y- from fancied derivation < Gk stŷlos column
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| style (stīl) n.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin stylus, stilus, spike, pointed instrument used for writing, style; see stylus.] styl'er n., styl'ing n. |
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Style
Style\, n. [OE. stile, F. style, Of. also stile, L. stilus a style or writing instrument, manner or writing, mode of expression; probably for stiglus, meaning, a pricking instrument, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, v. t., and cf. Stiletto. The spelling with y is due to a supposed connection with Gr. ? a pillar.]1. An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax. 2. Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use. Specifically: (a) A pen; an author's pen. --Dryden. (b) A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver. (c) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument. (d) (Zo["o]l.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects. (e) [Perhaps fr. Gr. ? a pillar.] The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon. (f) [Probably fr. Gr. ? a pillar.] (Bot.) The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil. 3. Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression. High style, as when that men to kinges write. --Chaucer. Style is the dress of thoughts. --Chesterfield. Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style. --Swift. It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work. --I. Disraeli. 4. Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing in idea or accomplishing a result. The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar merit. --Sir J. Reynolds. 5. Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion. According to the usual style of dedications. --C. Middleton. 6. Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated; the title; the official designation of any important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty. One style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe. --Burke. 7. (Chron.) A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Note: Style is Old or New. The Old Style follows the Julian manner of computing the months and days, or the calendar as established by Julius C[ae]sar, in which every fourth year consists of 366 days, and the other years of 365 days. This is about 11 minutes in a year too much. Pope Georgy XIII. reformed the calendar by retrenching 10 days in October, 1582, in order to bring back the vernal equinox to the same day as at the time of the Council of Nice, a. d. 325. This reformation was adopted by act of the British Parliament in 1751, by which act 11 days in September, 1752, were retrenched, and the third day was reckoned the fourteenth. This mode of reckoning is called New Style, according to which every year divisible by 4, unless it is divisible by 100 without being divisible by 400, has 366 days, and any other year 365 days. Style of court, the practice or manner observed by a court in its proceedings. --Ayliffe. Syn: Diction; phraseology; manner; course; title. See Diction.
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Language Translation for : Style
Spanish:
estilo,
German:
der Stil,
Japanese:
様式
style (n.)
c.1300, stile, "designation, title, manner or mode of expression," from O.Fr. estile "a stake, pale," from L. stilus "stake, instrument for writing, manner of writing, mode of expression," from PIE *sti-lo-, from base *sti- "point, prick, pierce" (see stick (v.)). Spelling modified by influence of Gk. stylos "pillar." Meaning "mode or fashion of life" is from 1770; that of "mode of dress" is from 1814. Stylish is first recorded 1797 in "Sense and Sensibility" (the adj. good is understood); and stylize is 1898, from Ger. stilisieren.
style (v.)
1563, "to give a name to," from style (n.). Meaning "to arrange in fashionable style" (esp. of hair) is attested from 1934. Slang sense of "act or play in a showy way" is 1970s, originally black slang.
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Style
The investment approach an investment manager takes to reach his/her objectives.
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| style (stīl) Pronunciation Key
The slender part of a flower pistil, extending from the ovary to the stigma. The pollen tube grows through the style delivering the pollen nuclei to the ovary. See more at flower, pollination. |
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style World-Wide Web
The visual presentation or formatting of web content, chiefly either HTML content with style controlled by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) or XML content controlled by XSL. Style is distinguished from meaning, which is encoded with semantic markup. The latter deals with logical divisions of content such as headings, lists and paragraphs.
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style
see cramp someone's style; go out (of style); in fashion (style).
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