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STYLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A slender bristlelike or tubular process
Example:
a cartilaginous style
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("style" is a kind of...):
appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "style"):
stylet (small needlelike appendage; especially the feeding organ of a tardigrade)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving
Example:
he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("style" is a kind of...):
tool (an implement used in the practice of a vocation)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Distinctive and stylish elegance
Example:
he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer
Synonyms:
dash; elan; flair; panache; style
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("style" is a kind of...):
elegance (a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste)
Derivation:
stylistic (of or relating to style (especially in the use of language))
Sense 4
Meaning:
How something is done or how it happens
Example:
in an abrasive fashion
Synonyms:
fashion; manner; mode; style; way
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("style" is a kind of...):
property (a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "style"):
artistic style; idiom (the style of a particular artist or school or movement)
drape (the manner in which fabric hangs or falls)
fit (the manner in which something fits)
form (a particular mode in which something is manifested)
life-style; life style; lifestyle; modus vivendi (a manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes)
setup (the way something is organized or arranged)
signature; touch (a distinguishing style)
wise (a way of doing or being)
response (the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals)
Derivation:
stylist (someone who cuts or beautifies hair)
stylize (represent according to a conventional style)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The popular taste at a given time
Example:
the 1920s had a style of their own
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("style" is a kind of...):
appreciation; discernment; perceptiveness; taste (delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "style"):
bandwagon (a popular trend that attracts growing support)
fashion (the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior)
New Look (a style of women's clothing created by Christian Dior in 1947; involved a tight bodice and narrow waist and a flowing pleated skirt)
Derivation:
stylist (someone who cuts or beautifies hair)
stylize (represent according to a conventional style)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A particular kind (as to appearance)
Example:
this style of shoe is in demand
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("style" is a kind of...):
form; kind; sort; variety (a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality)
Derivation:
style (make consistent with a certain fashion or style)
stylist (someone who cuts or beautifies hair)
stylize (represent according to a conventional style)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("style" is a kind of...):
direction; instruction (a message describing how something is to be done)
Derivation:
stylistic (of or relating to style (especially in the use of language))
style (make consistent with certain rules of style)
Sense 8
Meaning:
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
Example:
all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper
Synonyms:
expressive style; style
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("style" is a kind of...):
communication (something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups)
Domain category:
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)
art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "style"):
genre; music genre; musical genre; musical style (an expressive style of music)
officialese (the style of writing characteristic of some government officials: formal and obscure)
pathos (a style that has the power to evoke feelings)
prose (matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression)
rhetoric (using language effectively to please or persuade)
coarseness; saltiness (language or humor that is down-to-earth)
self-expression (the expression of one's individuality (usually through creative activities))
sesquipedality (using long words)
terseness (a neatly short and concise expressive style)
turn of expression; turn of phrase (a distinctive spoken or written expression)
vein (a distinctive style or manner)
verboseness; verbosity (an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words)
genre; literary genre; writing style (a style of expressing yourself in writing)
poetry (any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling)
allegory (an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor)
analysis (the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., 'the father of the bride' instead of 'the bride's father')
bathos (triteness or triviality of style)
black humor; black humour (the juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect)
device (something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect)
eloquence; fluency; smoothness (powerful and effective language)
euphuism (any artificially elegant style of language)
flatness (a want of animation or brilliance)
expression; formulation (the style of expressing yourself)
grandiloquence; grandiosity; magniloquence; ornateness; rhetoric (high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation)
headlinese (using the abbreviated style of headline writers)
jargon (specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject)
journalese (the style in which newspapers are written)
legalese (a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law)
delivery; manner of speaking; speech (your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally)
Derivation:
stylist (someone who cuts or beautifies hair)
stylist (an artist who is a master of a particular style)
stylistic (of or relating to style (especially in the use of language))
stylize (represent according to a conventional style)
Sense 9
Meaning:
(botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("style" is a kind of...):
reproductive structure (the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction)
Meronyms (parts of "style"):
stigma (the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "style"):
stylopodium (an enlargement at the base of the style in some Umbelliferae)
corn silk; cornsilk (each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn)
Holonyms ("style" is a part of...):
pistil (the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they style ... he / she / it styles
Past simple: styled
Past participle: styled
-ing form: styling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make consistent with certain rules of style
Example:
style a manuscript
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "style" is one way to...):
write (communicate or express by writing)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
style (editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Designate by an identifying term
Example:
They styled their nation 'The Confederate States'
Synonyms:
style; title
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "style" is one way to...):
be known as; call; know as; name (assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Make consistent with a certain fashion or style
Example:
style the dress
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "style" is one way to...):
create; make (make or cause to be or to become)
Domain category:
fashion (the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "style"):
pompadour (style women's hair in a pompadour)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They style their hair
Derivation:
style (a particular kind (as to appearance))
styler; stylist (someone who cuts or beautifies hair)
Context examples:
Their other engagements were few, as the style of living in the neighbourhood in general was beyond Mr. Collins's reach.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“Curse me if I did not think that it was the style of speech of old Samkin Aylward,” said the voice, amid a buzz from the ranks.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That was the name, style, and abode of my morning visitor.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I became very glowing again, and, expressing myself in a rhapsodical style, I am afraid, urged my request strongly; reminding the Doctor that I had already a profession.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Your eyebrows have become as thick as my finger, and your forehead resembles what, in some very astonishing poetry, I once saw styled, 'a blue-piled thunderloft.'
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I dare say people would admire him in general; but he is not at all in my style of beauty.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
One morning, about a fortnight after I had obtained my liberty, Reldresal, principal secretary (as they style him) for private affairs, came to my house attended only by one servant.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It includes language, styles of communication, practices, customs, and views on roles and relationships.
(Culture, NCI Thesaurus)
The Kerry Blue Terrier is a well-built, muscular, medium-sized dog with true terrier style and character.
(Kerry Blue Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)
The researchers also studied traces of “manufacturing techniques” – changing styles of butchery and skull preparation – to help place the walrus remains in history.
(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)
