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style
(stīl)n.
1. The way in which something is said, done, expressed, or performed: a style of teaching.
2. The combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression, execution, or performance characterizing a particular person, group, school, or era.
3. Sort; type: a style of furniture.
4. A quality of imagination and individuality expressed in one's actions and tastes: does things with style.
5.
a. A comfortable and elegant mode of existence: living in style.
b. A mode of living: the style of the very rich.
6.
a. The fashion of the moment, especially of dress; vogue: clothes that are in style.
b. A particular fashion: the style of the 1920s.
7. A customary manner of presenting printed material, including usage, punctuation, spelling, typography, and arrangement: a manual of style.
8. A name or title: businesses under the style of Wilson and Webber.
9.
a. An implement used for etching or engraving.
b. A slender pointed writing instrument used by the ancients on wax tablets.
10. The needle of a phonograph.
11. The gnomon of a sundial.
12. Botany The usually slender part of a pistil, connecting the ovary and the stigma.
13. Zoology A slender, tubular, or bristlelike process: a cartilaginous style.
14. Medicine A surgical probing instrument; a stylet.
15. Obsolete A pen.
tr.v. styled, styl·ing, styles
1. To design or fashion in a certain way: styled the new model after the classic sports cars.
2. To arrange (hair) in a certain way, as by cutting, coloring, or curling.
3. To call or name; designate: George VI styled his brother Duke of Windsor.
4. To make consistent with rules of style: style a manuscript.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin stylus, stilus, spike, pointed instrument used for writing, style; see stylus.]
styl′er n.
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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. (Art Terms) a distinctive, formal, or characteristic manner of expression in words, music, painting, etc
5. elegance or refinement of manners, dress, etc
6. (Clothing & Fashion) prevailing fashion in dress, looks, etc
7. a fashionable or ostentatious mode of existence: to live in style.
8. (Journalism & Publishing) 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) botany the stalk of a carpel, bearing the stigma
11. (Zoology) zoology a slender pointed structure, such as the piercing mouthparts of certain insects
13. (Art Terms) another word for stylus1
14. (Horology) the arm of a sundial
vb (mainly tr)
15. to design, shape, or tailor: to style hair.
16. to adapt or make suitable (for)
17. (Journalism & Publishing) 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. (Art Terms) (intr) to decorate objects using a style or stylus
[C13: from Latin stylus, stilus writing implement, hence characteristics of the writing, style]
ˈstylar adj
ˈstyler n
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style
(staɪl)n., v. styled, styl•ing. n.
1. a particular type or sort, with reference to form, appearance, or character.
2. a particular, distinctive, or characteristic mode or manner of acting: to do things in a grand style.
3. prevailing fashion, as in dress, esp. approved fashion; smartness: out of style.
4. an elegant, fashionable, or luxurious mode of living: to live in style.
5. a mode of expressing thought in writing or speaking, esp. as characteristic of a group, person, etc.
6. a mode or form of design, construction, or execution in any art or work, esp. as characteristic of a person, group, period, etc.: the baroque style; the Georgian style of architecture.
7. a distinctive quality of originality, elegance, or flair: a person with style.
8. a person's characteristic tastes, attitudes, and mode of behavior: It's not his style to flatter people.
9. a descriptive or distinguishing appellation, esp. a legal, official, or recognized title.
11. the gnomon of a sundial.
12. a method of reckoning time. Compare New Style, old style (def. 2).
13. a narrow, cylindrical extension of the pistil that, when present, bears the stigma at its apex.
14. Zool. a small, pointed process or part.
15. the rules or customs of spelling, punctuation, and the like, observed by a publisher.
v.t. 16. to call by a given title or appellation; designate; name.
17. to design or arrange in accordance with a given or new style: to style one's hair.
18. to bring into conformity with a specific style: to style a manuscript.
[1250–1300; Middle English (n.) < Latin stylus, sp. variant of stilus tool for writing, hence, written composition, style; see stylus]
styl′er, n.
-style1
, a combining form of style (defs. 13, 14). Compare stylo- 1.
-style2
, a combining form with the meanings “column,” “having columns (of the kind specified)”: urostyle. Compare stylo- 2.
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style
(stīl) The slender part of a flower pistil, extending from the ovary to the stigma. See more at flower.
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Style
See Also: CLOTHING
- Dress as if having been born in a clothing store —David Ignatow
- Elegance stamped on her as by a die —Henry James
- Elegant as a Cole Porter lyric —Eric Pace, New York Times, December 1, 1986
Pace made this comparison about actor Cary Grant at the time of his death.
- Elegant as a fifty-dollar whore —Raymond Chandler
- Fashion is like a shadow: fly from it and it follows you; follow it and it flies from you —Anon
- Had that elusive style some older women carry like blossom —Jonathan Gash
- A man’s style is intrinsic and private with him like his voice or his gesture, partly a matter of inheritance, partly of cultivation —Maurice Valency
- Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted —Tacitus
- You can’t get high aesthetic tastes, like trousers, ready-made —W. S. Gilbert
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style
Past participle: styled
Gerund: styling
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| Noun | 1. |  style - how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "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"property - a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class; "a study of the physical properties of atomic particles" artistic style, idiom - the style of a particular artist or school or movement; "an imaginative orchestral idiom" drape - the manner in which fabric hangs or falls; "she adjusted the drape of her skirt" fit - the manner in which something fits; "I admired the fit of her coat" form - a particular mode in which something is manifested; "his resentment took the form of extreme hostility" life style, lifestyle, life-style, modus vivendi - a manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes setup - the way something is organized or arranged; "it takes time to learn the setup around here" wise - a way of doing or being; "in no wise"; "in this wise" response - the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals |
| 2. |  style - 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; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"communication - something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups artistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" language, linguistic communication - a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written" allegory - an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner 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; "his eloquence attracted a large congregation"; "fluency in spoken and written English is essential"; "his oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police" euphuism - any artificially elegant style of language flatness - a want of animation or brilliance; "the almost self-conscious flatness of Hemingway's style" formulation, expression - the style of expressing yourself; "he suggested a better formulation"; "his manner of expression showed how much he cared" grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric - high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language" 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 manner of speaking, delivery, speech - your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech" 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; "the saltiness of their language was inappropriate"; "self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre" 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; "John's succinct turn of phrase persuaded her that it would not be a good idea" vein - a distinctive style or manner; "he continued in this vein for several minutes" verboseness, verbosity - an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words poetry - any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling | |
| 3. |  style - a particular kind (as to appearance); "this style of shoe is in demand" | |
| 4. |  style - the popular taste at a given time; "leather is the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style of their own"appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness, taste - delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste" 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 fashion - the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior bandwagon - a popular trend that attracts growing support; "when they saw how things were going everybody jumped on the bandwagon" | |
| 5. | style - (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma reproductive structure - the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction pistil - the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma stylopodium - an enlargement at the base of the style in some Umbelliferae stigma - the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil | |
| 6. | style - editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display instruction, direction - a message describing how something is to be done; "he gave directions faster than she could follow them" | |
| 7. |  style - distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer"elegance - a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste; "she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility" | |
| 8. | style - a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving; "he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus" tool - an implement used in the practice of a vocation | |
| 9. | style - a slender bristlelike or tubular process; "a cartilaginous style" stylet - small needlelike appendage; especially the feeding organ of a tardigrade | |
| Verb | 1. | style - designate by an identifying term; "They styled their nation `The Confederate States'" |
| 2. | style - make consistent with a certain fashion or style; "Style my hair"; "style the dress" fashion - the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior pompadour - style women's hair in a pompadour | |
| 3. | style - make consistent with certain rules of style; "style a manuscript" write - communicate or express by writing; "Please write to me every week" |
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style
noun
1. manner, way, method, approach, technique, custom, mode Our children's different learning styles created many problems.
2. elegance, taste, chic, flair, polish, grace, dash, sophistication, refinement, panache, élan, cosmopolitanism, savoir-faire, smartness, urbanity, stylishness, bon ton (French), fashionableness, dressiness (informal) She has not lost her grace and style.
4. type, sort, kind, spirit, pattern, variety, appearance, tone, strain, category, characteristic, genre, tenor six scenes in the style of a classical Greek tragedy
6. luxury, ease, comfort, elegance, grandeur, affluence, gracious living The £17 million settlement allowed her to live in style to the end.
7. mode of expression, phrasing, turn of phrase, wording, treatment, expression, vein, diction, phraseology The author's style is wonderfully anecdotal.
verb
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style
noun2. The approach used to do something:
3. Behavior through which one reveals one's personality:
Archaic: port.
4. The current custom:
Informal: thing.
Idioms: the in thing, the last word, the latest thing.
5. The word or words by which one is called and identified:
1. To give a name or title to:
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Translations
أُسْلُوبأسْلوبأناقَهزي، موضَهيُرَتِّب بطريقَةٍ ما
styltvarovatúčesudělat účesuzpůsobit
stildesigneformgivefrisureklasse
tyylivartalo
izravannačinstil
formatervezmegcsináltatjastílus
greiîa/leggja hárhannastíllstíll, stælltíska, stæll
スタイル
스타일
modeliuotojaspadaryti šukuosenąstilingaistilingasstilingumas
elegancefasonsieveidot matusizveidotskonstruēts
stil
urobiť účes
modaslogstil
stil
รูปแบบ
kiểu
style
[staɪl]A. N
1. (Mus, Art, Literat) → estilo m
in the style of Mozart → al estilo de Mozart
a building in the neoclassical style → un edificio de estilo neoclásico
in the style of Mozart → al estilo de Mozart
a building in the neoclassical style → un edificio de estilo neoclásico
3. (= mode) → estilo m
we must change our style of play → debemos cambiar nuestro estilo de juego
the present style of leadership → el estilo actual de liderazgo
management style → estilo m administrativo
style of living → estilo m de vida
in the Italian style → al estilo italiano, a la italiana
that's the style! → ¡así se hace!, ¡muy bien!
this is a lesson in economics, nineties style → ésta es una lección de economía al estilo de los noventa
March 6th, old/new style → 6 de marzo, según el calendario juliano/gregoriano
see also house C
we must change our style of play → debemos cambiar nuestro estilo de juego
the present style of leadership → el estilo actual de liderazgo
management style → estilo m administrativo
style of living → estilo m de vida
in the Italian style → al estilo italiano, a la italiana
that's the style! → ¡así se hace!, ¡muy bien!
this is a lesson in economics, nineties style → ésta es una lección de economía al estilo de los noventa
March 6th, old/new style → 6 de marzo, según el calendario juliano/gregoriano
see also house C
4. (= elegance) → estilo m
there's no style about him → no tiene nada de estilo
to have style → tener estilo
to do sth in style → hacer algo por todo lo alto or a lo grande
they celebrated in style → lo celebraron por todo lo alto or a lo grande
to live in style → vivir por todo lo alto or rodeado de lujo
to travel in style → viajar por todo lo alto
he won in fine style → ganó de manera impecable
there's no style about him → no tiene nada de estilo
to have style → tener estilo
to do sth in style → hacer algo por todo lo alto or a lo grande
they celebrated in style → lo celebraron por todo lo alto or a lo grande
to live in style → vivir por todo lo alto or rodeado de lujo
to travel in style → viajar por todo lo alto
he won in fine style → ganó de manera impecable
5. (= fashion) → moda f
to go out of style [mode of dress] → pasar de moda
they spent money like it was going out of style → gastaban dinero a troche y moche or como si fuera agua
she was drinking vodka like it was going out of style → bebía vodka como si se estuviera acabando el mundo
to go out of style [mode of dress] → pasar de moda
they spent money like it was going out of style → gastaban dinero a troche y moche or como si fuera agua
she was drinking vodka like it was going out of style → bebía vodka como si se estuviera acabando el mundo
6. (= way of behaving) → estilo m
I like your style → me gusta tu estilo
that's not her style → eso no es su estilo
see also cramp 1
I like your style → me gusta tu estilo
that's not her style → eso no es su estilo
see also cramp 1
7. (also hairstyle) → peinado m
8. (= form of address) → título m
B. VT
1. (frm) (= call, designate) the headmaster is styled "rector" → al director se le llama "rector"
he styles himself "Doctor" → se hace llamar "Doctor"
see also self-styled
he styles himself "Doctor" → se hace llamar "Doctor"
see also self-styled
2. (= design) [+ clothes, car, model] → diseñar
to style sb's hair → peinar a algn
Jackie's hair was styled by → Jackie ha sido peinada por ...
her hair is styled in a bob → lleva una melena corta
to style sb's hair → peinar a algn
Jackie's hair was styled by → Jackie ha sido peinada por ...
her hair is styled in a bob → lleva una melena corta
3. (Typ) [+ manuscript] → editar (siguiendo el estilo de la editorial)
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style
[ˈstaɪl] n (= manner) → style m
That's not his style → Ça n'est pas son style.
western styles of education → les modes d'éducation occidentaux
That's not his style → Ça n'est pas son style.
western styles of education → les modes d'éducation occidentaux
(= design) [clothes, product] → style m
to come in several styles → être disponible en différents modèles
see also hairstyle
to come in several styles → être disponible en différents modèles
see also hairstyle
(literary, artistic, architectural, musical) → style m
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style
n
(Art, Mus, Liter, personal etc) → Stil m; style of painting → Malstil m; the style of his writing → sein Stil m; style of life → Lebensstil m; style of management → Führungsstil m; a poem in the Romantic style → ein Gedicht nt → im Stil der Romantik; he won in fine style → er gewann souverän or überlegen; in his own inimitable style (iro) → in seiner unnachahmlichen Art or Manier, auf die ihm typische Art; that house is not my style → so ein Haus ist nicht mein Stil; hillwalking is not his style → Bergwanderungen liegen ihm nicht; that’s the style (inf) → so ists richtig
(= elegance) → Stil m; the man has (real) style → der Mann hat Klasse or Format; in style → stilvoll; to do things in style → alles im großen Stil tun; to celebrate in style → groß feiern; to get married in style → eine Hochzeit großen Stils or im großen Stil feiern
(= sort, type) → Art f; a new style of house/car etc → ein neuer Haus-/Autotyp etc; just the style of car I like → ein Auto, wie es mir gefällt
(Fashion) → Stil m no pl, → Mode f; (= cut) → Schnitt m; (= hairstyle) → Frisur f; these coats are available in two styles → diese Mäntel gibt es in zwei verschiedenen Schnittarten or Macharten; I want something in that style → ich hätte gern etwas in der Art or in dem Stil; all the latest styles → die neue(ste) Mode, Mode im neue(ste)n Stil; the latest styles in shoes → die neue(ste)n Schuhmoden
(Bot) → Griffel m
vt
(= designate) → nennen
(= design) → entwerfen; interior etc → gestalten; hair → stylen; a smartly styled dress → ein elegant geschnittenes Kleid; it is styled for comfort, not elegance → es ist auf Bequemlichkeit und nicht Eleganz zugeschnitten
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style
[staɪl] na. (gen) → stile m
in the Renaissance style → in stile rinascimentale
that's the style! → così va bene!
in the Renaissance style → in stile rinascimentale
that's the style! → così va bene!
b. (of dress) → modello, linea (also hair style) → pettinatura; (more elaborate) → acconciatura
in the latest style → all'ultima moda
something in this style → qualcosa di questo tipo
in the latest style → all'ultima moda
something in this style → qualcosa di questo tipo
c. (elegance, of person, car, film) → classe f, stile m
to dress with style → vestire con un certo stile
she has style → ha classe or stile
to live in style → avere un elevato tenore di vita
to do things in style → fare le cose in grande stile
to dress with style → vestire con un certo stile
she has style → ha classe or stile
to live in style → avere un elevato tenore di vita
to do things in style → fare le cose in grande stile
d. (Bot) → stilo
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
style
(stail) noun1. a manner or way of doing something, eg writing, speaking, painting, building etc. different styles of architecture; What kind of style are you going to have your hair cut in?; a new hairstyle.
2. a fashion in clothes etc. the latest Paris styles; I don't like the new style of shoe.
3. elegance in dress, behaviour etc. She certainly has style.
verb1. to arrange (hair) in a certain way. I'm going to have my hair cut and styled.
2. to design in a certain style. These chairs/clothes are styled for comfort.
ˈstylish adjective elegant or fashionable. stylish clothes/furniture.
ˈstylishly adverbˈstylishness noun
ˈstylist noun
a person who arranges or designs a style especially in hairdressing. a hair-stylist.
in style in a luxurious, elegant way without worrying about the expense. The bride arrived at the church in style, in a horse-drawn carriage.
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style
→ أُسْلُوب styl stil Stil στυλ estilo tyyli style izravan stile スタイル 스타일 stijl stil styl estilo стиль stil รูปแบบ stil kiểu 风格Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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