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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: style - stylostatistics</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="style"> style, noun, verb, styled, styling.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. fashion; manner or custom that prevails. Ex. Paris, London, Rome, and New York set the style of dress for the world. Her dress is out of style. <DD> 2. manner; method; way. Ex. a lecturer with a free and easy style, the Gothic style of architecture, an opera in the Wagnerian style, styles of acting, to entertain in a lavish style. She learned several styles of swimming. <DD> 3. a way of writing or speaking. Ex. Books for children should have a clear, easy style. <DD> 4. good style; fashionable appearance. Ex. She dresses in style. That otherwise impalpable quality which women call style (William Dean Howells). <DD> 5. excellence of form or expression, as in literature, speech, or art. Ex. a model of style, a master of literary style. Get your facts right first: that is the foundation of all style (Time). Style is the dress of thoughts (Lord Chesterfield). Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style (Jonathan Swift). <DD> 6. an official name; title. Ex. Salute him with the style of King. <DD> 7. a kind, sort, or type. Ex. There was something in her style of beauty (Jane Austen). <DD> 8. a pointed instrument for writing on wax; stylus. <DD> 9. something like this in shape or use, such as an etching needle, a graver, a pen, or a phonograph needle. <DD> 10. the pointer on a dial or chart, especially the gnomon of a sundial. <DD> 11. the stemlike part of the pistil of a flower, having the stigma at its top. Pollen is passed along the style to the ovules. <DD> 12. (Zoology.) a small, slender, pointed process or part; stylet. <DD> 13. the rules of spelling, punctuation, typography, and other matters of writing and setting in type, used by printers or followed by a particular editorial department or publication. <DD> 14. a method of reckoning time and dates, such as Old Style (Julian calendar) and New Style (Gregorian calendar). <DD> 15. a surgical probe with a blunt point; stylet. <DD>v.t. 1. to make in or conform to a given or accepted style; stylize. Ex. Her poem is styled with care. <DD> 2. to design according to a style or fashion. Ex. His suits are styled by a famous designer. <DD> 3. to name; call. Ex. Joan of Arc was styled "the Maid of Orleans." expr. cramp one's style, (Informal.) to keep one from showing his skill or ability. Ex. The presence of curious onlookers watching him paint cramped his style. noun styler. </DL> <A NAME="stylebook"> stylebook, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a book containing the rules of punctuation, capitalization, and other matters of style followed by a printing or editorial office, school or college, or other institution that publishes. <DD> 2. a book showing fashions, usually in dress. </DL> <A NAME="styleless"> styleless, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without style; of no particular style. Ex. Her art deserved a better epitaph than this styleless, half-baked concoction (Saturday Review). noun stylelessness. </DL> <A NAME="stylesetter"> stylesetter, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that sets a style for others to follow. </DL> <A NAME="stylet"> stylet, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1a. a slender surgical probe. <DD> b. a wire inserted in a catheter or cannula to stiffen it. <DD> 2. (Zoology.) a style. <DD> 3. a stiletto or dagger. </DL> <A NAME="styli"> styli, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a plural of stylus. </DL> <A NAME="styliform"> styliform, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> shaped like a stylus or style. Ex. a styliform bone, a styliform projection of rock. </DL> <A NAME="styling"> styling, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the way in which something is styled. Ex. simplicity of styling. </DL> <A NAME="stylise"> stylise, verb, -ised, -ising.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) stylize. </DL> <A NAME="stylish"> stylish, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. having style; in the current fashion; fashionable. Ex. a stylish woman. She wears stylish clothes. (SYN) modish, chic. <DD> 2. graceful and polished; skillful and smooth. Ex. a stylish performance. adv. stylishly. noun stylishness. </DL> <A NAME="stylism"> stylism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in art and literature) excessive concern for style, with little consideration of content. </DL> <A NAME="stylist"> stylist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a writer, speaker, artist, musician, or the like, considered to be an expert or a master of style; person who takes much pains with his style. Ex. an excellent stylist. He did turn out to have qualities as a musician and stylist that shone to advantage in this particular concerto (New Yorker). <DD> 2. a person who designs, arranges, or advises concerning things such as interior decorations, clothes, or hairstyles. </DL> <A NAME="stylistic"> stylistic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with style, especially in literature, music, or art. Ex. I should like to hear music ... that is free of self-conscious formulas and tricks of stylistic sleight of hand (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="stylistically"> stylistically, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> with regard to style; in matters of style. Ex. The text itself is loaded with cliches, grossly repetitive and stylistically dull (Scientific American). </DL> <A NAME="stylistician"> stylistician, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an expert in stylistics. Ex. Some stylisticians say that literary style is defined by its deviance from speech (Listener). </DL> <A NAME="stylistics"> stylistics, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the study of literary style. <DD> 2. the stylistic features of a written work. Ex. the stylistics of the New Testament. </DL> <A NAME="stylite"> stylite, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various Christian ascetics of the early Middle Ages who lived on the tops of pillars or columns. </DL> <A NAME="stylitic"> stylitic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or like the stylites. </DL> <A NAME="stylization"> stylization, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act or process of stylizing. Ex. The stage was empty except for fragmentary decors of a roof or a fence as stylizations of a wrecked home and loneliness (New Yorker). <DD> 2. the fact or condition of being stylized. </DL> <A NAME="stylize"> stylize, transitive verb, intransitive verb, -ized, -izing.<DL COMPACT><DD> to make or design according to a particular or conventional style. Ex. We prefer to stylize and indicate--we do our best to avoid ambiguity (New Yorker). (SYN) regularize, conventionalize. noun stylizer. </DL> <A NAME="stylo"> stylo, noun, pl. -los. =stylograph.</DL> <A NAME="stylobate"> stylobate, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Architecture.) a continuous base under a row of columns; the top part or surface of a stereobate. </DL> <A NAME="stylograph"> stylograph, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an old fountain pen similar to a modern ballpoint pen, in which the writing point consists of a fine metal tube instead of a nib. </DL> <A NAME="stylographic"> stylographic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a stylograph or stylography. adv. stylographically. </DL> <A NAME="stylographical"> stylographical, adjective. =stylographic.</DL> <A NAME="stylographicpen"> stylographic pen, =stylograph.</DL> <A NAME="stylography"> stylography, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> writing, drawing, or engraving with a stylus. </DL> <A NAME="stylohyoid"> stylohyoid, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the styloid process of the temporal bone and the hyoid bone. </DL> <A NAME="styloid"> styloid, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. like a style; slender and pointed. <DD> 2. of or having to do with a styloid process. </DL> <A NAME="styloidprocess"> styloid process,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a sharp spine pointing down at the base of the temporal bone in man. <DD> 2. the pointed projection at the lower extremity of the ulna, on the inner and posterior side. </DL> <A NAME="stylolite"> stylolite, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a columnar structure in limestones and certain other rocks, consisting of vertical layers at right angles to the stratification. </DL> <A NAME="stylomandibular"> stylomandibular, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> connecting the styloid process of the temporal bone and the lower jawbone. Ex. a stylomandibular ligament. </DL> <A NAME="stylomastoid"> stylomastoid, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> common to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone. </DL> <A NAME="stylomaxillary"> stylomaxillary, adjective. =stylomandibular.</DL> <A NAME="stylomycin"> Stylomycin, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Trademark.) puromycin. </DL> <A NAME="stylopodium"> stylopodium, noun, pl. -dia.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) one of the double, fleshy disks surmounting the ovary and supporting the styles in plants of the parsley family. </DL> <A NAME="stylops"> stylops, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tiny insect that lives as a parasite in the bodies of bees, wasps, and other insects. The stylops is a typical strepsipteran insect. </DL> <A NAME="stylostatistics"> stylostatistics, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the use of statistical methods to analyze the style of a writer or group of writers. Ex. There are two essays in stylostatistics ... and both show that frequency of items or classes of items can be shown to correlate with time and type of writing (Archibald A. Hill). </DL> <A HREF="stylus.dic">NEXT</A>