(~s, styling, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
The ~ of something is the general way in which it is done or presented, which often shows the attitudes of the people involved.
Our children’s different needs and learning ~s created many problems...
Belmont Park is a broad sweeping track which will suit the European ~ of running...
N-COUNT: with supp, also in adj N
2.
If people or places have ~, they are smart and elegant.
Bournemouth, you have to admit, has ~...
Both love doing things in ~...
She had not lost her grace and ~.
N-UNCOUNT: oft in N
3.
The ~ of a product is its design.
His 50 years of experience have given him strong convictions about ~...
Several ~s of hat were available.
N-VAR
4.
In the arts, a particular ~ is characteristic of a particular period or group of people.
...six scenes in the ~ of a classical Greek tragedy.
...a mixture of musical ~s.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
5.
If something such as a piece of clothing, a vehicle, or someone’s hair is ~d in a particular way, it is designed or shaped in that way.
His thick blond hair had just been ~d before his trip.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed
6.
see also old-~ , self-~d , styling
7.
to cramp someone’s ~: see cramp