style

  • 61-style — UK [staɪl] / US suffix used with some adjectives and nouns to make adjectives describing someone s qualities or the way that something is done or designed a gangland style shooting an old style (= traditional) politician …

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  • 62style — stile, style There are three words here, all derived from the Latin word stilus meaning ‘a writing tool’. The two words spelt stile are (1) from Old English, meaning ‘a set of steps for crossing a fence’ and (2) probably from Dutch, meaning ‘a… …

    Modern English usage

  • 63style —   n. ancient writing instrument with one sharp and one blunt end; Botany stalk like outgrowth of ovary bearing stigma.    ♦ stylate,    ♦ styliferous, a. bearing a style.    ♦ styliform, a. like a style.    ♦ styline, a.    ♦ stylite, n. ascetic… …

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  • 64stylé — adj. : dyê /// awé stylé lé bone manîre <dans /// avec stylé les bonnes manières> (Albanais) …

    Dictionnaire Français-Savoyard

  • 65style — /staɪl/ noun a way of doing or making something ● a new style of product ● old style management techniques …

    Marketing dictionary in english

  • 66style — in. to show off; to strut around. (Black. See also strut one’s stuff.) □ Look at that brother style! □ Why don’t you style over here and meet my man? …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 67style — n.; pl. styli [Gr. stylos, pillar] 1. (ARTHROPODA: Chelicerata) The embolus of spiders. 2. (ARTHROPODA: Crustacea) see telson. 3. (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) a. Any slender, tubular or spinelike appendage at the end of the abdomen. b. In some Diptera,… …

    Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • 68-style — style1 a combining form of style (defs. 14, 15): blastostyle. Cf. stylo 1. style2 a combining form with the meanings column, columned, having columns (of the kind specified) used in the formation of compound words: orthostyle; urostyle. Cf. stylo …

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  • 69style — 1. noun /staɪl/ a) A manner of doing things, especially in a fashionable one. b) the stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower. 2. verb /staɪl/ …

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  • 70Style — This interesting name is of Anglo Saxon origin and has two possible sources, both of which are topographical. The first is derived from the Olde English pre 7th Century stigol a steep ascent, from stigan , to climb. The second source is from the… …

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