What does style mean

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style

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

style

I.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a relaxed attitude/manner/style etc

▪ She has a fairly relaxed approach to housework.

baroque style

▪ furnished in a baroque style

flamboyant style/character/personality

▪ his flamboyant style of play

hands-off style

▪ a hands-off style of management

lapidary style

▪ the lapidary style of the poem

sports/style/business/travel etc section (=particular part of a newspaper)

style sheet

suit sb's style

▪ Choose a racket that suits your style of play.

writing style

▪ Different newspapers tend to use different writing styles.

your own inimitable way/style etc

▪ He entertained us in his own inimitable style.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

different

▪ Within quite a short time great rivalries grew up between students of different styles.

▪ Flocks of executives entered the company from competing firms, bringing different styles, values, and corporate cultures with them.

▪ It wanted to give the club a different style of management.

▪ You get to see all those different styles, their advantages and disadvantages.

▪ The same data are plotted in b but the species are categorised into three different life styles denoted by different symbols.

▪ You look at how your bosses ran things and see a lot of different management styles.

▪ Different situations may require different styles of leadership and a good leader may be one who uses a combination of different styles.

▪ Experiment with a different hair style or food.

fine

▪ Rich and imposing, here the features are grand, and the fine, traditional style impressive.

▪ But although she slammed the phone down in fine style, she was shaken horribly.

▪ I won the 200 metres in fine style, clocking my best indoor time of 21.05 seconds.

▪ The façade is late Renaissance, with friezes and status in fine style.

▪ United began to step up their pressure and took the lead after 30 minutes when Sharpe celebrated his recall in fine style.

▪ Both are notable for their fine sense of style and for playing of passionate commitment.

▪ Ian led the pack in fine style, well supported by second rower Warren Aspinall until he retired with a damaged shoulder.

▪ The orchestral accompaniment her was again alert, matching the pianist's skill in fine style.

gothic

▪ The organ is a rare example of the Gothic Revival style from the beginning of the 18C.

▪ Most remarkable, however, are his two houses in the Gothic style.

▪ Dedicated to St Paul, it is stone built in an early Gothic style.

▪ From the fourteenth century onwards considerable building was carried out in the Gothic style.

▪ Carter had worked under James Wyatt, one of the first professional architects to recognize the Gothic style in the eighteenth century.

▪ The Gothic style of the mansion has made it an ideal film set in the past.

▪ The lower floor is early Gothic in style, with deep set windows and a groined vaulted roof.

▪ The vicarage house is a handsome brick building in the Gothic style.

grand

▪ We had started off in grand style, rattling right round the station plaza with a great tooting of horns.

▪ Opening the evening in grand style is Norm Marini, doing his reality-twisting routines tableside.

▪ The grand style is echoed in the hotel's 108 bedrooms which are traditional but have large modern bathrooms.

▪ He opened in the grandest possible style, with Janacek s mighty Sinfonietta.

modern

▪ Daniel Hersheson then set to work on Pamela's hair, cutting it into a more tailored and modern style.

▪ But he quickly changed my direction toward modern tango style.

▪ Magnet's wide choice of kitchen units includes traditional and modern styles, and prices to fit any budget.

▪ A.R. What do you feel about working in the more modern style of play after your classical work with Stratford?

▪ Classic and modern styles, glowing with lights, colour, and gilding.

▪ Modern style After studying the above ballets it may well be asked what is modern style?

▪ Each is furnished in a modern style with private facilities and at least one balcony.

▪ He led Coffin to a bright back kitchen, furnished in the most modern style, with new canary-yellow paint.

new

▪ Classroom management for the use of computers A new style of classroom management may be required when using computers in history teaching.

▪ He had, perhaps unconsciously, formulated a new style of disengagement.

▪ Mr Sampson's report is the second of a new style of intermediate force inspections and falls between the biennial major inspections.

▪ The changes are expected to cut the time it takes to develop new styles of sunglasses and lower costs, Echols said.

▪ So successful was he that he named the new style after the insect.

▪ The thematic range and the technique of the earlier poems have not been replaced by a new poetic style.

▪ Modern civilization was not now so decayed that the new style proposed by the Mediaevalists was justified.

▪ So, in our example, it would be the experimental group which was exposed to the new teaching style.

old

▪ There's a case for bringing back those old style Tory values.

▪ The old styles are all coming back.

▪ They want a return to the old style system of independent assessors for every match.

▪ The result was predictable: the briefers stopped attacking ministers and others in the old style.

▪ The bedrooms are furnished in older style and have a private bathroom, though they do vary in size.

▪ The blank face will serve the same purpose as old style screens.

▪ The old style, however, persisted.

▪ Restoring old chairs and weaving new old style traditional chairs is an art in itself.

particular

▪ The differing quality aspects of these zones make it impossible to specify a particular style of wine for Hautvillers.

▪ Bureaucracy is a particular structure and style through which the administration can operate.

▪ Here the break is more explicitly towards a particular style or more general cultural position.

▪ Regular perusal will make clear which journalists might be most sympathetic to your particular style.

▪ Colour masters Rather than any particular style, you may want to base your bedroom scheme on certain colours.

▪ Also used to refer to a complete set of characters forming a family in a particular design or style.

▪ In all cases, we reserve the right to use our discretion in offering students any particular style or type of accommodation.

▪ We also recommend four good quality, value-for-money wines from Sainsbury's, which typify a particular style or region.

personal

▪ Sununu's abrasive and often arrogant personal style won him few friends during his three-year tenure at the White House.

▪ With his dark good looks and meticulous personal style, he made a lasting, if rather forbidding impression on lay people.

▪ Shabba's dominance of reggae is due to his unique voice, strong personal style and quick wit.

▪ She did, and selected a woman about her own age with a personal style that seemed very similar to hers.

▪ Matters are not improved by his personal style.

▪ In school, Crowell stood out as the girl who eschewed the blandness of fashion in favor of personal style.

▪ This scene may give a rare glimpse of Charles's personal style as king.

▪ Fellini lacked any formal training in cinematography and developed his personal style only after a long apprenticeship as a scriptwriter.

traditional

▪ The bedrooms are furnished in a traditional style and have double glazing.

▪ Separate from these groups was the large mass of youth whose clothes were chain store versions of traditional styles.

▪ Magnet's wide choice of kitchen units includes traditional and modern styles, and prices to fit any budget.

▪ The pension is recently built, but is finished off in the traditional style.

▪ Julius Caesar favoured a traditional style of portrait, but used his image in a regal manner that traditionalists found offensive.

▪ Cast-metal cresting follows faithfully the traditional style.

▪ In just six months a new Hardys &038; Hansons traditional style pub will have been built on the spot.

■ NOUN

leadership

▪ His leadership style was to maintain power through a combination of force and cunning strategy.

▪ A leadership style that has made her a remarkably effective prime minister would be a crippling liability in the White House.

▪ Anne was not prepared for the more authoritative leadership style that Laura had developed since the old days.

▪ Changes are limited to internal sub-units, focusing on improving leadership styles, building teamwork, and resolving intergroup conflict.

▪ As his early moves and leadership style indicate, Barak personally will determine the agenda and reputation of his government.

▪ Perhaps Jobs should simply be forgiven for what can most kindly be described as an immature leadership style.

life

▪ In each case the life style and violent death is similar.

▪ In a no account is taken of the animals' life styles.

▪ The same data are plotted in b but the species are categorised into three different life styles denoted by different symbols.

▪ These benefits seem even more relevant in our present climate of hurried and stressful life styles.

▪ The three dotted lines have different elevations and denote differences in relative organ size associated with changes in life style.

▪ They will share a similar life style which to some degree will distinguish them from members of other social strata.

▪ In the case of birds, we know that meaningful clusters will be associated with birds' life styles.

▪ The young teacher who enjoys his work but also sees it as an attractive life style.

management

▪ Comments expressed in the survey revealed that a return to traditional manufacturing techniques and management styles would not be welcomed.

▪ These are, of course, three of the most commonly considered issues in the literature on management style.

▪ Norms are influenced by organizational factors such as policies, management style of superiors, and rules and procedures.

▪ You look at how your bosses ran things and see a lot of different management styles.

▪ More importantly, it helped lots of managers to recognize, and to question, the centralized management style.

▪ While an authority's management style is usually affected by environmental factors there always remains an element of choice.

▪ Perhaps surprisingly, Conran's management style and operating methods have changed little in the light of his vast experience.

■ VERB

adopt

▪ If adopting the tiger style, for instance, the hands would be shaped like claws.

▪ It is often the physician, as the person responsible for the activities required for patient care, who adopts this style.

▪ Now the tags automatically adopt the defined styles.

▪ Guest, adopting the faux documentary style, was only partially successful.

▪ From the 1500s, instruments started to adopt a more familiar style.

▪ I adopted this style of flying.

▪ The rationalization of modern life, suggest those who adopt the functionalist style, must be directly confronted.

▪ There may on occasions be sound educational reasons for adopting a style of interaction in which unfocused questions predominate.

build

▪ In Bombay the new stations were built in international concrete style.

▪ For others, the Nutrition Facts are a lifeline for building a healthier eating style.

▪ And giant superstores, fastened to the bypass, and built in the style of the farmer's bothy.

▪ A section on the skyscraper with amazing scale models shows the growth and diversity in this monumental building style.

▪ Moon Beach Central had been built in the style of a temple.

▪ A kitchen, washing facilities and lavatories were to be built, camp style, in the open.

▪ Creating a structure on which to build your style.

change

▪ And clubs can't help cashing in - by constantly changing the colour and style of their football strips.

▪ Westy was given far more opportunity to change his style than any of his predecessors.

▪ The impact of this episode upon the efforts to change the style of services for mentally ill patients is hard to conjecture.

▪ You had to change your whole style.

▪ They are what they are and I don't see how they can change their style.

▪ Development involves people; and people must be at the focus of policies and other measures taken to change their living style.

▪ When I got back from training I told myself I would change my style.

create

▪ Do it well. Create a style.

▪ Instead, create this style by using Shift-Tab to release the left margin.

▪ The Pro-Style collection has been carefully designed to help create and control all styles on all hair types.

▪ To create great styles from one cut, you need versatile styling products.

▪ A mismatched, haphazard gang of pots looks terrible and it is worth investing some decent money in creating a cohesive style.

▪ To create this light style, the company address and other essential information can be relegated to the bottom of the page.

▪ As Ashton and MacMillan in many of their ballets, he has created a style appropriate to one particular ballet.

develop

▪ Boyd has developed a distinct style.

▪ The goal is to cut the time it takes to develop new styles of sunglasses and lower costs, said Bausch&038;.

▪ You can be as elaborate as you like and you will doubtless develop your own style.

▪ He encourages you to develop your own style.

▪ Over the decades the Legion had developed its own style of soldiering.

▪ He developed a political style to match.

▪ Fellini lacked any formal training in cinematography and developed his personal style only after a long apprenticeship as a scriptwriter.

write

▪ History books can sometimes be written in a style that is difficult to penetrate.

▪ She resists the polysyllabic playfulness that marks the writing of her brother, Bill, but she writes with clarity and style.

▪ Otherwise the chapter is clear and written in an accessible style, as is the whole volume.

▪ Jance has a very easy, smooth writing style.

▪ It is written in classical textbook style and is full of formulae, equations and flow sheets.

▪ Prolonged sitting also makes you restless, tired, and distracted, which weakens your writing style.

▪ It seems appropriate here to switch our writing style to first person and let Bill Illingworth share his experiences and his insights.

▪ The writer is also encouraged to revise and re-word any subheading to fit his own sense of appropriateness and writing style.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

cramp sb's style

▪ John said he broke up with her because she cramps his style.

doggy style/fashion

fashion/style victim

▪ Aristos, being of course a complete media and fashion victim, had heard of it and ordered champagne.

▪ Blast is still going strong though, perhaps because its sound is too loud for wet fashion victims to handle.

▪ I don't want to be a fashion victim.

▪ It wasn't about creating quirky objects for kitsch fashion victim consumers, it was about improving the real world.

▪ Our intention was to dress a model for illustrative purposes, not to create fashion victims.

▪ Pleats create a weird-looking smock effect, appealing to the adventurous with a touch of fashion victim in them.

▪ There are a few male fashion victims; all women are victims of fashion.

form/mode/style of address

▪ Besides that, he used the intimate form of address, tum.

▪ Both were perceived as amoral sources of power which responded more or less predictably to specific modes of address.

▪ Even in a formal business letter you should use a personal and human form of address.

▪ He stuttered nervously before managing to answer herand when he did, he used the masculine form of address.

▪ Seating arrangements at conferences, forms of address and other issues of this kind remained a continual source of potential difficulty.

▪ The effect of this intense focus on modes of address is that personal pronouns become unusually prominent.

▪ The patient should be told of the mode of address used in that particular hospital for professional staff.

▪ Without the royal family, titles would be just that - forms of address for the self-important to dignify themselves.

high style/register

▪ All three, when they achieve greatness, have also an undeniable high style which separates them from the pedestrian mobs.

▪ Its high register gives brilliance and point when doubling at the octave phrases allotted to other wind instruments or to the violins.

▪ Like a high, high register.

▪ Solarium in the back, pillars and driveway fountain and the high style in the front.

▪ The high registers contain parameters passed from above the current procedure.

▪ This high style comes from Panache Fresh and simply stunning.

▪ This method of obscuring chords only in higher registers is quite usual, as it gives a good equilibrium to the harmony.

▪ We have divided the cellos in order to obtain intensity of tone from their high register.

style-setter/trend-setter/standard-setter etc

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ a completely new style of painting

▪ an authoritarian style of leadership

▪ At this publisher, it isn't style to spell "worshipping" with one "p."

▪ Cameron found my style aggressive, although I thought I was just being direct and honest.

▪ Her friendly style of management works well with small groups of people.

▪ Hundreds of novelists have tried to copy Hemingway's direct style.

▪ If you want a cellphone with style, this is the one for you.

▪ It does not really have the style and elegance of other luxury hotels.

▪ It was built in Colonial style to match the old part of the city.

▪ Pollock's style is instantly recognizable.

▪ Several of her early paintings were done in an expressionistic style.

▪ The new library is a blend of various architectural styles.

▪ The Thompsons always entertain in style.

▪ The women were wearing '50s style housedresses.

▪ What she lacked in looks she made up for with her sensational style.

▪ Whitaker went out in style, beating Pernell comfortably.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ He met this challenge by manufacturing a sense of drama through his theatrical style of rule and through his ambitious policies.

▪ I tried to write them in an easygoing style, which was my hallmark.

▪ It has evolved over the years from a nouveau style to a more weighty red wine with distinctive black raspberry fruit.

▪ The bureaucratic style can be very efficient in a stable environment and when the organisation is of a large size.

▪ The cool narrative economy and unforced style recall early Fassbinder.

▪ The fashionable and becoming gown and girdle were her only concessions to style and conformity.

▪ There Angela sat smoking but not in her usual sensual and elegant style.

▪ You will come up with your own favoured tactics based on your own preferred style of play.

II.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

hair

▪ You can do this by using different after shaves and mouthwashes, and putting different styling products in your hair.

▪ Before you style your hair, lift sections of hair and spray with hairspray, concentrating on the root area.

▪ She was well built, with strong features, and she styled her dark brown hair in what they called earphones.

▪ After I had styled my hair it felt very soft and silky and it also seemed much thicker and more glossy.