Definition of Style

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Definition of Style

Style

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.

Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use.

A pen; an author's pen.

A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.

A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.

A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects.

The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon.

The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.

Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression.

Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing in idea or accomplishing a result.

Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion.

Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated; the title; the official designation of any important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty.

A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

To entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate.

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Style Quotations

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
Coco Chanel

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Ernest Hemingway

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Jim Rohn

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Walt Whitman

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Jonathan Swift

Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style.
Jonathan Swift

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
Leo Tolstoy

Style Translations

style in Afrikaans is styl
style in Dutch is trant, stijl
style in Finnish is tyyli
style in French is style
style in German is stil, entwerfen, Ausdrucksweise
style in Italian is taglio, eloquio
style in Portuguese is estilo
style in Spanish is estilo, inciso
style in Swedish is titulera, stil, mode

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