STYLE

I. noun see: stick Date: 14th century designation , title , 2. a distinctive manner of expression (as in writing or speech) , a distinctive manner or custom of behaving or conducting oneself , a particular manner or technique by which something is done, created, or performed , 3. stylus , gnomon 1b, the filiform usually elongated part of the pistil bearing a stigma at its apex, a slender elongated process (as a bristle) on an animal, a distinctive quality, form, or type of something , 5. the state of being popular ; fashion , fashionable elegance, beauty, grace, or ease of manner or technique , a convention with respect to spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and typographic arrangement and display followed in writing or printing, see: fashion ~less adjective ~lessness noun II. transitive verb (~d; styling) Date: circa 1580 to call or designate by an identifying term ; name , 2. to give a particular ~ to, to design, make, or arrange in accord with the prevailing mode, ~r noun