style
 style (stīl)n.
1. The way in which something is said, done, expressed, or performed:
a style of speech and writing.
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.
b. A particular fashion:
the style of the 1920s.
See Synonyms at fashion.
7. A customary manner of presenting printed material, including usage, punctuation, spelling, typography, and arrangement.
8. A form of address; a title.
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, situated between 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 call or name; designate:
George VI styled his brother Duke of Windsor.
2. To make consistent with rules of style:
style a manuscript.
3. To give style to:
style hair. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin stylus, stilus, spike, pointed instrument used for writing, style. See stylus.] stylʹer n.stylʹing n.
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