style

noun

• 1a manner of doing something:different styles of management
• a way of painting, writing, composing, building, etc., characteristic of a particular period, place, person, or movement.
• a way of using language:he never wrote in a journalistic style students should pay attention to style and idiom
• [usually with negative] a way of behaving or approaching a situation that is characteristic of or favored by a particular person:backing out isn’t my style
• an official or legal title:the partnership traded under the style of Storr and Mortimer

• 2a distinctive appearance, typically determined by the principles according to which something is designed:the pillars are no exception to the general style
• a particular design of clothing.
• a way of arranging the hair.

• 3elegance and sophistication:a sophisticated nightspot with style and taste

• 4a rodlike object or part, in particular.
• archaic term for stylus (sense 2).
• Botany (in a flower) a narrow, typically elongated extension of the ovary, bearing the stigma.
• Zoology (in an invertebrate) a small slender pointed appendage; a stylet.
• the gnomon of a sundial.

verb

• 1design or make in a particular form:the yacht is well proportioned and conservatively styled
• arrange (hair) in a particular way:he styled her hair by twisting it up to give it body

• 2 [with object and complement] designate with a particular name, description, or title:the official is styled principal and vice chancellor of the university