style

Definitions

General English

  • noun a way of doing

    something

    ,

    especially

    a way of designing,

    drawing

    or writing
  • noun a

    fashionable

    way of doing things

Agriculture

  • noun the elongated structure that carries the

    stigma

    at its tip in many flowers

Banking

  • noun a way of doing or making something

Computing

  • noun the

    typeface

    , font,

    point size

    , colour,

    spacing

    , and margins of text in a formatted

    document

Information & Library Science

  • noun the way in which a particular

    writer

    or

    editor

    uses words, sentences and

    layout

    to

    produce

    a recognisable

    publication

Media Studies

  • noun a set of guidelines for a particular

    publication

    regarding ‘house rules’ on punctuation, grammar and spelling

Wine

  • the particular quality of a wine that derives from the grape variety, place of origin or ‘terroir’, or the manner of production

Origin & History of “style”

Style comes via Old French stile

from

Latin stilus,

which

denoted a ‘pointed writing instrument’. It came to be used metaphorically for ‘something written’, and hence for ‘manner of writing’. The spelling

with

y

instead

of i arose from the misapprehension

that

the word was of Greek origin. It

also

invaded stylus (18th c.), which was acquired directly from Latin.
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