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style > 12 senses
NOUN	1	style	A particular kind (as to appearance)
	2	style, manner, mode, way, fashion	How something is done or how it happens
	3	style, expressive 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
	4	style, dash, elan, flair, panache	Distinctive and stylish elegance
	5	style, vogue, trend	The popular taste at a given time
	6	style	(botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma
	7	style	Editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display
	8	style, stylus	A pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving
	9	style	A slender bristlelike or tubular process
VERB	1	style, title	Designate by an identifying term
	2	style	Make consistent with a certain fashion or style
	3	style	Make consistent with certain rules of style

style > pronunciation
Sounds	stay'l
Rhymes	aisle, argyle, argyll, and 58 more rhymes in ayl...

style > noun 1, cognition
Meaning	A particular kind (as to appearance).
Examples	"this style of shoe is in demand"
Broader	kind, sort, form, variety
Nouns	stylist
Verbs	style; stylize

style > noun 2, attribute
Meaning	How something is done or how it happens.
Examples	"in the characteristic New York style"
Synonyms	manner, mode, way, fashion
Broader	property
Narrower	artistic style, idiom; drape; fit; form; life style, life-style, lifestyle, modus vivendi; setup; touch, signature; wise
Nouns	stylist
Verbs	stylize

style > noun 3, communication
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.
Examples	"all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"
Synonyms	expressive style
Category	art, artistic creation, artistic production; language, linguistic communication; music
Broader	communication
Narrower	allegory; analysis; bathos; black humor, black humour; device; eloquence, fluency, smoothness; euphuism; flatness; formulation, expression; grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric; headlinese; jargon; journalese; legalese; manner of speaking, speech, delivery; music genre, musical genre, genre, musical style; officialese; pathos; prose; rhetoric; saltiness, coarseness; self-expression; sesquipedality; terseness; turn of phrase, turn of expression; vein; verboseness, verbosity; writing style, literary genre, genre; poetry
Adjectives	stylistic; stylistic
Nouns	stylist; stylist
Verbs	stylize

style > noun 4, attribute
Meaning	Distinctive and stylish elegance.
Synonyms	dash, elan, flair, panache
Broader	elegance
Adjectives	stylistic; stylistic

style > noun 5, cognition
Meaning	The popular taste at a given time.
Examples	"the 1920s had a style of their own"
Synonyms	vogue, trend
Broader	taste, appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness
Narrower	New Look; fashion; bandwagon
Nouns	stylist
Verbs	stylize

style > noun 6, plant
Meaning	(botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma.
Part of	pistil
Parts	stigma
Category	botany, phytology
Broader	reproductive structure
Narrower	stylopodium
Adjectives	homostylous, homostylic, honostyled

style > noun 7, communication
Meaning	Editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display.
Broader	direction, instruction
Adjectives	stylistic; stylistic
Verbs	style

style > noun 8, artifact
Meaning	A pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving.
Synonyms	stylus
Broader	tool

style > noun 9, animal
Meaning	A slender bristlelike or tubular process.
Examples	"a cartilaginous style"
Broader	process, outgrowth, appendage
Narrower	stylet

style > verb 1, communication
Meaning	Designate by an identifying term.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something
Examples	"They styled their nation `The Confederate States'"
Synonyms	title
Broader	name, call

style > verb 2, creation
Meaning	Make consistent with a certain fashion or style.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something
Model	They style their hair
Examples	"Style my hair"; "style the dress"
Category	fashion
Broader	make, create
Narrower	pompadour
Nouns	stylist, styler; style

style > verb 3, communication
Meaning	Make consistent with certain rules of style.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something
Examples	"style a manuscript"
Broader	write
Nouns	style

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