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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.] styler n. |
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