Style

Style

Style may refer to:

* Genre, a loose set of criteria for a category or composition
* Design, the process of creating something
* Format, various terms that refer to the style of different things
* Human physical appearance
* Fashion, a prevailing mode of expression, i.e. clothing
* Typeface, style is one of the three traditional design features along with size and weight: either regular, italic or condensed

Style may also refer to:
* Painting style, in art and painting style can refer either to the aesthetic values followed in choosing what to paint (and how) or to the physical techniques employed
* Style (manner of address), titles or honorifics, including Chinese courtesy names
* Style (botany), a stalk structure in female flower parts. "See Gynoecium"

Music

* Music genre, music that shares a certain style or "basic musical language"
* "Style" (Cameo album), released in 1983
* "Style" (Namie Amuro album), an album by Namie Amuro, released in 2003
* "Style" (2007 song), from the Tamil film "Sivaji: The Boss"
* Styles P, one third of the group LOX or one fourth of the supergroup, D-Block
* "Style" (Swedish band), Swedish 80s band, famous for songs like Telefon and Dover-Calais
*"Style", a song from the movie "Robin and the 7 Hoods"

Film and television

* Style Network, a Comcast-owned cable and satellite television network
* "Style" (2006 film), a Telugu film starring Raghavendra Lawerence and Prabhu Deva Sundaram
* "Style" (2004 film), a Burmese romantic comedy
* "Style with Elsa Klensch", a CNN fashion series hosted by Elsa Klensch from 1980 to 2000

Literature and linguistics

* Cascading Style Sheets, in web design
* Style guide in writing
* Stylistics (linguistics), in linguistics, variation in the language use of an individual, such as formal/informal style
*"Style", a pseudonym of author Neil Strauss
*"Style", a book by Sir Walter Raleigh
*"Style", a 1998 fashion book by Elsa Klensch

Other uses

*"Style", on a sundial, the part of the gnomon that casts a shadow
*Style = Stan + Kyle, a popular slash pairing from the TV cartoon South Park

ee also

* Stile, a step used for crossing a fence
* Stylus, a writing instrument


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  • stylé — stylé …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • STYLE — Sous l’égide de la linguistique, le style devient aujourd’hui l’objet d’une science: la stylistique veut être la science des registres de la langue, et elle s’efforce de définir le style comme concept opératoire. Mais le mot style a, dans l’usage …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • style — [staɪl] noun [countable] 1. a way of doing something, designing something, or producing something, especially one that is typical of a particular time, place, or group of people: style of • the Japanese style of stock investment • 1980s style… …   Financial and business terms

  • Style — Style, n. [OE. stile, F. style, Of. also stile, L. stilus a style or writing instrument, manner or writing, mode of expression; probably for stiglus, meaning, a pricking instrument, and akin to E. stick. See {Stick}, v. t., and cf. {Stiletto}.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • style — Style, et maniere d escrire, Stylus, Vena. Style legier et doux, Oratio tenuis. Style de haut appareil, Magniloquentia. Qui n a pas style vulgaire, Cui non est publica vena. Le style, La practique, Iurisdictionis forma et vsus fori, Bud. Chose… …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • style — [stīl] n. [ME < L stilus (sp. infl. by unrelated Gr stylos, pillar) < IE base * (s)tei , pointed > L stimulus] 1. a sharp, slender, pointed instrument used by the ancients in writing on wax tablets 2. any of several devices, etc. similar …   English World dictionary

  • stylé — stylé, ée 1. (sti lé, lée) adj. Terme d histoire naturelle. Qui est muni d un style, d un long style. stylé, ée 2. (sti lé, lée) part. passé de styler. •   Tant ces nouveaux réformateurs avaient de peine à se contenter, et tant ils étaient peu… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • Style — 〈[ staıl] m. 6; engl. Bez. für〉 Stil * * * Style [sta̮il ], der; s, s [engl. style, über das Afrz. zu lat. stilus, ↑ Stil] (Jargon): Stil. * * * Style   [»Stil«] Formatvorlage …   Universal-Lexikon

  • style — [n1] fashion, manner appearance, approach, bearing, behavior, carriage, characteristic, cup of tea*, custom, cut*, description, design, druthers*, flash*, form, genre, groove*, habit, hand, idiosyncrasy, kind, method, mode, number, pattern,… …   New thesaurus

  • -style — [ staıl ] suffix used with some adjectives and nouns to make adjectives describing someone s qualities or the way something is done or designed: a gangland style shooting an old style (=traditional) politician …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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