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style

 (stīl)
n.
1. The way in which something is said, done, expressed, or performed: a style of teaching.
2. The combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression, execution, or performance characterizing a particular person, group, school, or era.
3. Sort; type: a style of furniture.
4. A quality of imagination and individuality expressed in one's actions and tastes: does things with style.
5.
a. A comfortable and elegant mode of existence: living in style.
b. A mode of living: the style of the very rich.
6.
a. The fashion of the moment, especially of dress; vogue: clothes that are in style.
b. A particular fashion: the style of the 1920s.
7. A customary manner of presenting printed material, including usage, punctuation, spelling, typography, and arrangement: a manual of style.
8. A name or title: businesses under the style of Wilson and Webber.
9.
a. An implement used for etching or engraving.
b. A slender pointed writing instrument used by the ancients on wax tablets.
10. The needle of a phonograph.
11. The gnomon of a sundial.
12. Botany The usually slender part of a pistil, connecting the ovary and the stigma.
13. Zoology A slender, tubular, or bristlelike process: a cartilaginous style.
14. Medicine A surgical probing instrument; a stylet.
15. Obsolete A pen.
tr.v. styled, styl·ing, styles
1. To design or fashion in a certain way: styled the new model after the classic sports cars.
2. To arrange (hair) in a certain way, as by cutting, coloring, or curling.
3. To call or name; designate: George VI styled his brother Duke of Windsor.
4. To make consistent with rules of style: style a manuscript.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin stylus, stilus, spike, pointed instrument used for writing, style; see stylus.]

styl′er n.
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styling

(ˈstaɪlɪŋ)
n
the design or style of somethingthe act of creating or maintaining a hairstyle(as modifier)
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styling

[ˈstaɪlɪŋ] Nestilización f
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styling

[ˈstaɪlɪŋ]
n
(= design) [car, product] → style m
(= arrangement of hair) → coiffure f
modif [products, gel, mousse] → coiffant(e)styling brush nbrosse f ronde
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styling

n (of car etc)Design nt; (of dress)Machart f, → Schnitt m; (of hair)Schnitt m; styling mousseSchaumfestiger m
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styling

[ˈstaɪlɪŋ] n (Hairdressing) → taglio
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References in classic literature ?
They even offered extravagant bets to one another that I would surely catch Demetrios, and two of them, styling themselves the committee of judges, gravely asked permission to come along with me to see how I did it.
The sobriquet of La Carconte had been bestowed on Madeleine Radelle from the fact that she had been born in a village, so called, situated between Salon and Lambesc; and as a custom existed among the inhabitants of that part of France where Caderousse lived of styling every person by some particular and distinctive appellation, her husband had bestowed on her the name of La Carconte in place of her sweet and euphonious name of Madeleine, which, in all probability, his rude gutteral language would not have enabled him to pronounce.
And he suffered enough from brazenly meddlesome and self-seeking folk, from impudent and inquisitive intruders, to justify some suspicion of old acquaintances suddenly styling themselves old friends, and of distant connections newly and unduly eager to claim relationship.
``According to the laws of chivalry,'' said the foremost of these men, ``I, Baldwin de Oyley, squire to the redoubted Knight Brian de Bois-Guilbert, make offer to you, styling yourself, for the present, the Disinherited Knight, of the horse and armour used by the said Brian de Bois-Guilbert in this day's Passage of Arms, leaving it with your nobleness to retain or to ransom the same, according to your pleasure; for such is the law of arms.''
de Treville, as he has ended by styling himself in Paris, had really commenced life as D'Artagnan now did; that is to say, without a sou in his pocket, but with a fund of audacity, shrewdness, and intelligence which makes the poorest Gascon gentleman often derive more in his hope from the paternal inheritance than the richest Perigordian or Berrichan gentleman derives in reality from his.
Muss Stylings customises car exteriors for TV and sports stars from its Team Valley workshop, but is now planning to establish a design, sales and marketing base in County Durham after receiving cash from the Finance Durham Fund.
Muss Stylings customises car exteriors for TV and sports stars from itsTeam Valley workshop, but is now planning to establish a design, sales and marketing base in County Durham after receiving cash from the Finance Durham Fund.
The new stylings are not only versatile in terms of colors, but also in their compatibility with both waterborne and solvent-borne applications.
Tracy Powers draws upon his considerable expertise (he is managing editor for 'Automobile Quarterly' and winner of awards for writing and editing) to provide the reader with an informed and informative history of automobile stylings of this legendary company in "General Motors Styling 1927-1958: Genesis Of The World's Largest Design Studios".
Ciba has added a series of 10 new color stylings for plastics to its Xymara[TM] line of color effects.
In addition, the incorporation of more asymmetrical stylings, such as having a stripe down one side of the jersey and not the other, could be in vogue on soccer pitches in the near future.
The complimentary stylings will be one of many services offered by the Self Center, which will occupy more than 14,000 square feet.