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Noun style has 9 senses
  1. style - a particular kind (as to appearance); "this style of shoe is in demand"
    --1 is a kind of     kind, sort, form, variety
    Derived forms: verb style2, verb stylize1
  2. manner, mode, style, way, fashion - how something is done or how it happens; "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"
    --2 is a kind of property
    --2 has particulars:
     artistic style, idiom; drape; fit; form; life style, life-style, lifestyle, modus vivendi; setup; touch, signature; wise
    Derived form: verb stylize1
  3. expressive style, 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; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"
    --3 is a kind of communication
    --3 has particulars:
     allegory; analysis; bathos; black humor, black humour; Congorism; device; eloquence, fluency; euphuism; formulation, expression; grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric; headlinese; jargon; journalese; legalese; manner of speaking, speech, delivery; music genre, musical genre, genre, musical style; officialese; pathos; prose; rhetoric; self-expression; sesquipedality; terseness; vein; verboseness, verbosity; writing style, literary genre, genre; poetry
    Derived form: verb stylize1
  4. dash, elan, flair, panache, style - distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer"
    --4 is a kind of elegance
  5. vogue, trend, style - the popular taste at a given time; "leather is the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style of their own"
    --5 is a kind of taste, appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness
    --5 has particulars: New Look; fashion; bandwagon
    Derived form: verb stylize1
  6. style - (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma
    --6 is a kind of     reproductive structure
    --6 is a part of pistil
    --6 has part: stigma
    --6 has particulars: stylopodium
  7. style - editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display
    --7 is a kind of     direction, instruction
    Derived form: verb style3
  8. stylus, style - a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving; "he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus"
    --8 is a kind of tool
  9. style - a slender bristlelike or tubular process; "a cartilaginous style"
    --9 is a kind of     process, outgrowth, appendage
    --9 has particulars: stylet
,Verb style has 3 senses
  1. style, title - designate by an identifying term; "They styled their nation `The Confederate States'"
    --1 is one way to name, call
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. style - make consistent with a certain fashion or style; "Style my hair"; "style the dress"
    --2 is one way to     make, create
    Derived forms: noun style1, noun stylist2, noun styler1
    Sample sentence:
    They style their hair
  3. style - make consistent with certain rules of style; "style a manuscript"
    --3 is one way to     write
    Derived form: noun style7
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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