style
- noun
- /staɪl/
- Make sure to follow the correct style when formatting your report for publication.
- writing style
- style and content
- style and rhetoric
Or we can do like FAQ style, not FAQ Q&A; style.
- Or we can do like FAQ style, not FAQ Q&A; style.
- Like let's hold on to the style guide to whatever.
- They could deal with multiple type styles, still weren't very flexible.
- We need my editing style and how I edit documented.
- OK, So what we're going to try out a few of those style books, see how it goes.
Examples
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Doing so under an individual with this leadership style is often difficult or even impossible at times.
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Research regarding the relationship between parenting style and learned resourcefulness is scarce in Turkish literature.
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OK, a few words about the style of this class.
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I spoke at a political meeting recently, and The New York Times put it in the style section.
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So choose a consistent style and stick with it.
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What are the engineering students' opinions on the teaching style used in the mathematics courses?
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Your best chance of publication involves reading several issues, studying the style, and following its guidelines.
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Culturally based differences in methods and styles of teaching may affect communication in the classroom.
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The VBA code was written in a terse, straight-ahead style that was fairly easy to follow.
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The novel is also emblematic of the fragmentary narrative style for which many of Khoury's novels are known.
Academic text (2017)
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A file that tells a web page how to look, for example fonts and colors
A type of fashion for clothes or rooms that is very elegant and of the best quality
- Specialized
A traditional-looking font like books from long ago with small difference between thick and thin lines
A way of designing buildings from a certain time or place, for example Gothic
Art from ancient Greece that uses balance and simple beauty, like statues and temples
A decorative way of designing rooms and furniture with many small details and rich colors
- Specialized
A simple, elegant style of furniture and paintings from early 1800s Germany and Austria
A style of animation that uses simple shapes, expressive faces, and a playful look
- Literature
A witty, bold way of writing that uses surprising ideas and strong argument
- Slur
A way of dressing with showy clothes and big jewellery often worn by young working-class people
- Slur
A performance style that uses offensive racial stereotypes about Black people
- Archaic
A way of writing that follows strict rules and lacks creative feeling
A style of dress for young girls with small, pretty details like a doll's clothes
- Specialized
A set of rules for organising how software parts work together, like REST
- Offensive
A planned killing of someone at close range in a controlled way
- Literature
To give people a lot of information very quickly to overwhelm or confuse them
- Slur
A way of dressing seen as quirky or unfashionable and suggesting someone recently moved from East Asia
- Formal
A system where one person has almost all power and makes decisions alone
- Informal
A pretty, soft look with pastel colors, floral patterns, and playful details
- Jargon
A way of dressing with tracksuits and sneakers linked to Eastern European street culture
Thick sideburns that grow down the cheeks and join along the jaw, with no mustache
A type of salmon lightly cured in salt water, usually less salty and sometimes made with sugar
- Specialized
A traditional set of printed letters with small slanted ends and mostly even line thickness
A 12-month calendar made by Julius Caesar in 46 BC with a leap day every four years
A fixed, simple way of doing creative work that leaves little room for new ideas
A type of English Gothic building style from the 1300s with tall vertical lines, Tudor arches, and fan-shaped ceilings
- Formal
A way of writing or speaking that argues strongly and makes people disagree
How Strict
Surface Forms
Etymology
Style meaning a set of rules for writing comes from the idea of a writing tool, the stylus, which made a person's own way of writing. So a 'style' guide is simply the rules for that particular 'way' of writing or presenting text.