style

1. How something is done or how it happens (synset 104936080)
   "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"
   is a type of: property - a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class
   subtypes:

   • 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
   same as: fashion, manner, mode, way
2. 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 (synset 107080699)
   "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"
   referred to in:

   • art, artistic creation, artistic production - the creation of beautiful or significant things
   • language, linguistic communication - a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
   • music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
   is a type of: communication - something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups
   subtypes:

   • 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
   • 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
   same as: expressive style
3. A particular kind (as to appearance) (synset 105852632)
   "this style of shoe is in demand"
   is a type of: form, kind, sort, variety - a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
4. The popular taste at a given time (synset 105758160)
   "leather is the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style of their own"
   is a type of: appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness, taste - delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
   subtypes:

   • 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
   same as: trend, vogue
5. (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma (synset 111697710)
   referred to in: botany, phytology - the branch of biology that studies plants
   is a type of: reproductive structure - the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction
   subtypes:

   • 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
   has: stigma - the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil
   is a part of: pistil - the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma
6. Editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display (synset 106802072)
   is a type of: direction, instruction - a message describing how something is to be done
7. Distinctive and stylish elegance (synset 104820120)
   "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer"
   is a type of: elegance - a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste
   same as: dash, elan, flair, panache
8. A pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving (synset 104353589)
   "he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus"
   is a type of: tool - an implement used in the practice of a vocation
   same as: stylus
9. A slender bristlelike or tubular process (synset 101903854)
   "a cartilaginous style"
   is a type of: appendage, outgrowth, process - a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
   subtypes: stylet - small needlelike appendage; especially the feeding organ of a tardigrade

1. Designate by an identifying term (synset 201030475)
   "They styled their nation `The Confederate States'"
   is a type of: be known as, call, know as, name - assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
   same as: title
2. Make consistent with a certain fashion or style (synset 201670789)
   "Style my hair"; "style the dress"
   referred to in: fashion - the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior
   is a type of: create, make - make or cause to be or to become
   subtypes: pompadour - style women's hair in a pompadour
3. Make consistent with certain rules of style (synset 200995653)
   "style a manuscript"
   is a type of: write - communicate or express by writing

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