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stylar

[stahy-ler]

sty·lar

[stahy-ler]
adjective
having the shape of an ancient style; resembling a pen, pin, or peg.

Origin:
1605–15; styl(us) + -ar1
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Stylar is always a great word to know.
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a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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style (staɪl)
 
n
1.  a form of appearance, design, or production; type or make: a new style of house
2.  the way in which something is done: good or bad style
3.  the manner in which something is expressed or performed, considered as separate from its intrinsic content, meaning, etc
4.  a distinctive, formal, or characteristic manner of expression in words, music, painting, etc
5.  elegance or refinement of manners, dress, etc
6.  prevailing fashion in dress, looks, etc
7.  a fashionable or ostentatious mode of existence: to live in style
8.  the particular mode of orthography, punctuation, design, etc, followed in a book, journal, etc, or in a printing or publishing house
9.  chiefly (Brit) the distinguishing title or form of address of a person or firm
10.  botany the stalk of a carpel, bearing the stigma
11.  zoology a slender pointed structure, such as the piercing mouthparts of certain insects
12.  Old Style See New Style a method of expressing or calculating dates
13.  another word for stylus
14.  the arm of a sundial
 
vb
15.  to design, shape, or tailor: to style hair
16.  to adapt or make suitable (for)
17.  to make consistent or correct according to a printing or publishing style
18.  to name or call; designate: to style a man a fool
19.  (intr) to decorate objects using a style or stylus
 
[C13: from Latin stylus, stilus writing implement, hence characteristics of the writing, style]
 
'stylar
 
adj
 
'styler
 
n

stylus (ˈstaɪləs)
 
n , pl -li, -luses
1.  Also called: style a pointed instrument for engraving, drawing, or writing
2.  a tool used in ancient times for writing on wax tablets, which was pointed at one end and blunt at the other for erasing mistakes
3.  a device attached to the cartridge in the pick-up arm of a record player that rests in the groove in the record, transmitting the vibrations to the sensing device in the cartridge. It consists of or is tipped with a hard material, such as diamond or sapphire
 
[C18: from Latin, variant of stilus writing implement; see style]
 
'stylar
 
adj

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