style

(stīl)

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. 1. A comfortable and elegant mode of existence: living in style.
   2. A mode of living: the style of the very rich.
6. 1. The fashion of the moment, especially of dress; vogue.
   2. 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. 1. An implement used for etching or engraving.
   2. 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.

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.]

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noun

1. A distinctive way of expressing oneself: fashion, manner, mode, tone, vein. See style/good style/bad style.
2. The approach used to do something: fashion, manner, method, mode, modus operandi, system, way, wise². See means.
3. Behavior through which one reveals one's personality: address, air, bearing, demeanor, manner, mien, presence. Archaic port. See be, style/good style/bad style.
4. The current custom: craze, fad, fashion, furor, mode, rage, trend, vogue. Informal thing. Idioms: the in thing, the last word, the latest thing. See style/good style/bad style, usual/unusual.
5. The word or words by which one is called and identified: appellation, appellative, cognomen, denomination, designation, epithet, name, nickname, tag, title. Slang handle, moniker. See specific/general, words.

verb

1. To give a name or title to: baptize, call, christen, denominate, designate, dub, entitle, name, term, title. See specific/general, words.
2. To describe with a word or term: call, characterize, designate, label, name, tag, term. See specific/general, words.

Definition: fashionableness
Antonyms: unstylishness

style, any specific way of using language, which is characteristic of an author, school, period, or genre. Particular styles may be defined by their diction, syntax, imagery, rhythm, and use of figures, or by any other linguistic feature. Different categories of style have been named after particular authors (e.g. Ciceronian), periods (e.g. Augustan), and professions (e.g. journalistic), while in the Renaissance a scheme of three stylistic ‘levels’ was adopted, distinguishing the high or ‘grand’ style from the middle or ‘mean’ style and the low or ‘base’ style. The principle of decorum held that certain subjects required particular levels of style, so that an epic should be written in the grand style whereas satires should be composed in the base style. Since the literary revolution of Romanticism, however, this hierarchy has been replaced by the notion of style as an expression of individual personality.

Adjective: stylistic.

An individual adaptation of a technique.

The investment approach or objective that a fund manager uses to make choices in the selection of securities for the fund's portfolio. While there are a variety of styles, there are nine basic investing styles for both equity and fixed-income funds. For stock funds, company size and value/growth characteristics determine the style. For bonds, style is defined by maturities and credit quality.

Investopedia Says:
The specific size parameters for stocks are large, medium and small-sized companies, which are determined by market capitalization. Value, growth and a value/growth blends are the three basic categories for stocks.

Bond maturities are categorized as short term, intermediate term and long term. Credit quality is determined by a bond's status as a government or agency issue (high) and credit ratings for corporates and municipals of 'AAA' to 'AA' (high), 'A' to 'BBB' (medium) and 'BB' to 'C' (low).

Variations and combinations of these basic categories, as well as consideration of special industries, industry sectors and geographic location, create investment styles for both stock and bond funds beyond the basic nine categories for each.

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The poet's individual creative process, as determined by choices involving diction, figurative language, rhetorical devices, sounds, and rhythmic patterns.

Quotes:

"It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history." - Renata Adler

"Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions." - Martin Amis

"The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off." - Raymond Chandler

"A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs." - Coco Chanel

"Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess." - Edna W. Chase

"Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters." - Lord Chesterfield

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A term used in subjective appraisal of wool; combines brightness, density, character, dust penetration and tip shape.

• Hair Styles - styling: cutting, coloring, shaping, and manipulating hair into a specific, distinguishing form

Dansk (Danish)
n. - stil, manér, stilart, mode, type, slags, art, form, titel, tidsregning, griffel, stylus
v. tr. - betegne, tiltale, titulere, benævne, formgive

idioms:

• not be someone's style    ikke være ens stil

Nederlands (Dutch)
stijl, schrijftrant, titulatuur, gedrag, model, haar in model knippen, ontwerp niet bij iemand passen

Français (French)
n. - style, (Littérat) style, classe, chic, modèle, type, mode, genre, coupe (de cheveux), (Pub, Journ) style, (Bot) style
v. tr. - concevoir, créer, couper (les cheveux)

idioms:

• not be someone's style    ne pas être son genre

Deutsch (German)
n. - Stil, Art, Anrede, Firmenbezeichnung, Griffel
v. - nennen, formen

idioms:

• not be someone's style    nicht jmds. Stil sein

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - στυλ, εκφραστικό ύφος, τεχνοτροπία, ρυθμός, μόδα, παρουσιαστικό, (τίτλος που χρησιμοποιείται σε) προσφώνηση, ευπρέπεια, αρχοντιά, καλαισθησία, (τυπογρ.) κασέ, μορφή (παράθεσης), (φυτολ.) στύλος (υπέρου)
v. - αποκαλώ, επονομάζω, σχεδιάζω ή κατασκευάζω με συγκεκριμένη τεχνοτροπία, δίνω στυλ σε

idioms:

• not be someone's style    δεν με εκφράζει

Italiano (Italian)
titolo, stile, pistillo

idioms:

• not be someone's style    non si addice a

Português (Portuguese)
n. - estilo (m)
v. - estilizar

idioms:

• not be someone's style    não ser do estilo de alguém

Русский (Russian)
стиль, направление, вкус, фасон, сорт, стиль летосчисление, титул, именовать, титуловать, конструировать, гравировать, вводить в моду, модернизировать

idioms:

• not be someone's style    быть не в чьем-л. стиле

Español (Spanish)
n. - estilo, título, manera, tipo, modelo, clase, distinción, moda, elegancia
v. tr. - intitular, llamar, nombrar, hacer o cortar a la moda, poner de moda

idioms:

• not be someone's style    no ser el estilo de uno, no ser de su gusto

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - stil, språk, maner, teknik, tideräkning, titel, stift (bot.), språkbehandling
v. - sätta stil på, göra moderiktig, lägga frisyr på ngn, titulera, beteckna som, utforma, forma

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
风格, 作风, 文风, 文体, 语调, 称呼, 设计, 命名, 使符合时势

idioms:

• not be someone's style    不是某人喜欢的风格

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 風格, 作風, 文風, 文體, 語調
v. tr. - 稱呼, 設計, 命名, 使符合時勢

idioms:

• not be someone's style    不是某人喜歡的風格

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 형, 생활양식, 스타일
v. tr. - 특정한 스타일에 맞추어 짓다, ~을~이라 칭하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - やり方, 様式, 型, 文体, 表現法, 口調, 上品さ, 華麗さ, 種類, 尖筆, 流行, 態度
v. - 作る, 呼ぶ, 称する

idioms:

• not be someone's style    好みではない

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) طراز, أسلوب, صفه مميزة, روعه, تصميم (فعل) صمم, لقب, سمى, قص الشعر فنيا لا ينسجم معه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮סגנון, נוסח, אופנה, סוג, מין, תואר, כינוי, חרט, מכתב, עמוד-העלי, סגנון אלגנטי‬
v. tr. - ‮תכנן, עיצב, כינה, קרא‬

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