Style
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Style may refer to:
- 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 Pairing, a popular South Park Fan pairing of Stan Marsh and Kyle Brovfolski.
- Not to be confused with stile, a step used for crossing a fence
[edit] Television, movies, and music
- Style (Cameo album), released in 1983.
- "Style", a song from the movie Robin and the Seven Hoods
- STYLE (Namie Amuro album), an album by artist Namie Amuro, released in 2003.
- Style (2006 film), a Telugu film starring Raghava Lawrence and Prabhu Deva
- Style (TV series), a CNN fashion series, hosted by Elsa Klensch, from 1980 to 2000
- Style Network, a Comcast-owned cable and satellite television network
[edit] Other
- "Style", a pseudonym of author Neil Strauss
- "Style", on a sundial, the part of the gnomon that casts a shadow
- Style, a book by Sir Walter Raleigh
- "Style", a movie starring Sharman Joshi and Sahil Khan
[edit] 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".