Style meaning

Noun: style

Pronunciation:(stI(-u)l)

Style meaning:

• How something is done or how it happens

Synonyms: manner, mode, way, fashion 

• (music) a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period

Synonyms: expressive style 

• A particular kind (as to appearance)

• The popular taste at a given time

Synonyms: vogue, trend 

• (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma

• Editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display

• Distinctive and stylish elegance

Synonyms: dash, elan, flair, panache, élan 

• A pointed tool for writing, drawing or engraving

Synonyms: stylus 

• A slender bristlelike or tubular process

Verb: style

Pronunciation:(stI(-u)l)

Style meaning:

• Designate by an identifying term

Synonyms: title 

• (fashion) make consistent with a certain fashion or style

• Make consistent with certain rules of style

Quotations:

1. J.K. Rowling – You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts, but you cannot deny he’s got style.
2. Vladimir Nabokov – About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
3. Jon Krakauer – make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.
4. Philip Larkin – They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats,Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another’s throats. Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself.
5. R.L. Stine – Read- Read- Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.
6. Vladimir Nabokov – You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
7. Oscar Wilde – In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
8. Susan Cain – Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man’s world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we’ve turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

Sample sentences:

1. My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style
2. I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there’s a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies.
3. I’d like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. And so, Ron, in short, get out of Salton City and hit the Road. I guarantee you will be very glad you did. But I fear that you will ignore my advice. You think that I am stubborn, but you are even more stubborn than me. You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his life. But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as possible, right back to the same situation which you see day after day after day. I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover. Don’t settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.
4. Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.
5. On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
6. There is no comfort and assurance. I want to be able to say, that there are four things admirable for a woman to be, at any age! Whether you are four or forty-four or nineteen! It’s always wonderful to be elegant, it’s always fashionable to have grace, it’s always glamorous to be brave, and it’s always important to own a delectable perfume! Yes, wearing a beautiful fragrance is in style at any age!
7. Think about a good memory, she whispers in my mind. Remember a moment when you loved him. And just like that, I do. What did the fish say when it hit a concrete wall? he asked me. We’re sitting on the bank of a stream and he’s tying a fly onto my fishing rod, wearing a cowboy hat and red lumberjack style flannel shirt over a gray tee. So adorable. What? I say, he grins. Unbelievable of how gorgeous he is. And that he’s mine. He loves me and I love him.
8. Fashions fade, style is eternal.
9. God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
10. So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern. Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.
11. Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one’s own, it is always twenty times better.
12. When you study great teachers,  you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
13. California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of lifestyle. This alone warrants their doom.