Style

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Style may refer to:

  • a pair of extra appendages located on the last segment of a male cockroach.
  • Genre, design, format, or looks
  • Fashion, applies to a prevailing mode of expression, i.e. clothing.
  • Carpel, in botany: part of the pistil of a flower
  • The artistic characteristics which signify, unify or distinguishes an artist's work
  • Painting style, in art and painting style can refer either to the aesthetic values followed in choosing what to paint (and how) or to the physical techniques employed
  • Music genre, category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or "basic musical language"
  • Style (manner of address), titles or honorifics, including Chinese courtesy names
  • Cascading Style Sheets, in web design
  • Style guide and literary genre, in writing
  • Stylistics (linguistics), in Linguistics: Variation in the language use of an individual, such as formal/informal style
  • Typeface, style is one of the three traditional design features along with size and weight: either regular, italic or condensed
  • Style Productions, a movieteam and web page nicknamed Style.
  • Not to be confused with stile, a step used for crossing a fence

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Etymology

The word "style" came from Latin stilus = a writing instrument (compare stylus), and originally meant a style of writing. The spelling was influenced by Greek στυλος = "column".