style

style
n
1. mode, manner, Archaic. guise, method, taste; system, approach, way; type, kind, sort; fashion, cut, line, design, pattern; form, shape, texture, quality.
2. fashion, Brit. twig, mode, vogue, look; trend, rage, fad, craze, latest thing; practice, custom, general tendency.
3. stylishness, smartness, nattiness, spruceness, dap-perness, trimness, neatness; fashionableness, modishness, chic, elegance; dressiness, flashiness, Sl. snazziness, Sl. sharpness; flair, panache, pizzazz, dash; fan-ciness, Sl. ritziness, Inf. swankiness, luxuriousness, Sl. class; polish, grace, refinement, culture; sophistication, cosmopolitanism, urbanity, urbaneness, suavity, suaveness.
4. tone, spirit, strain, vein; character, Obs. tenor, characteristic, condition; spirit, feeling, mood, temper; mark, stamp, brand, seal, touch.
5. phraseology, wording, phrasing, expression; language, words, vocabulary, dialect, speech.
v
6. name, call, address, denominate, designate; term, tag, label, dub.
7. design, fashion, make, do; sketch, outline, draft, plan, delineate, trace out, block out.

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