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 for style
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Style \Style\, n. [OE. stile, F. style, Of. also stile, L.
     stilus a style or writing instrument, manner or writing, mode
     of expression; probably for stiglus, meaning, a pricking
     instrument, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, v. t., and cf.
     Stiletto. The spelling with y is due to a supposed
     connection with Gr. sty^los a pillar.]
     1. An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets
        other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of
        making erasures by smoothing the wax.
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     2. Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or
        use. Specifically: 
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        (c) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
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            anal styles of insects.
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            gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the
            hour. See Gnomon.
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            elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the
            stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.
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     3. Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or
        written; especially, such use of language in the
        expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty
        of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse;
        rhetorical expression.
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              High style, as when that men to kinges write.
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              Style is the dress of thoughts.       --Chesterfield.
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              Proper words in proper places make the true
              definition of style.                  --Swift.
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              It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a
              great work.                           --I. Disraeli.
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     4. Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the
        fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing
        in idea or accomplishing a result.
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              The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar
              merit.                                --Sir J.
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     5. Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is
        deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social
        demeanor; fashion.
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              According to the usual style of dedications. --C.
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     6. Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated;
        the title; the official designation of any important body;
        mode of address; as, the style of Majesty.
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              One style to a gracious benefactor, another to a
              proud, insulting foe.                 --Burke.
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        Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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           manner of computing the months and days, or the
           calendar as established by Julius Caesar, in which
           every fourth year consists of 366 days, and the other
           too much. Pope Georgy XIII. reformed the calendar by
           retrenching 10 days in October, 1582, in order to bring
           back the vernal equinox to the same day as at the time
           of the Council of Nice, a. d. 325. This reformation was
           adopted by act of the British Parliament in 1751, by
           which act 11 days in September, 1752, were retrenched,
           and the third day was reckoned the fourteenth. This
           mode of reckoning is called New Style, according to
           which every year divisible by 4, unless it is divisible
           by 100 without being divisible by 400, has 366 days,
           and any other year 365 days.
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     Style of court, the practice or manner observed by a court
        in its proceedings. --Ayliffe.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Style \Style\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Styled; p. pr. & vb. n.
     great conquerors." --Milton.
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           How well his worth and brave adventures styled.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :

           manner, mode, style, way, fashion]
         etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group
         of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to
         adopt the style of the newspaper" [syn: expressive style,
         in demand"
         of their own" [syn: vogue, trend, style]
         ovary and the stigma
      6: editorial directions to be followed in spelling and
         punctuation and capitalization and typographical display
         confident dash of a cavalry officer" [syn: dash, elan,
         flair, panache, style]
         stylus, style]
      9: a slender bristlelike or tubular process; "a cartilaginous
      v 1: designate by an identifying term; "They styled their nation
           `The Confederate States'" [syn: style, title]
         hair"; "style the dress"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  644 Moby Thesaurus words for "style":
     Bauhaus, Byzantine, Corinthian, Dadaism, Doric, Egyptian, English,
     Fauvism, French, German, Gothic, Gothicism, Greco-Roman, Greek,
     Greek Revival, Ionic, Italian, MO, Moorish, Persian, Platonic form,
     Platonic idea, Renaissance, Roman, Romanesque, Spanish, Tuscan,
     ability, abstract expressionism, abstractionism, academic, action,
     action painting, actions, activity, acts, address, adeptness,
     adroitness, aesthetic form, affectation, affinity, air, airmanship,
     algorithm, androecium, angle, anther, apparel, appellation,
     appellative, approach, archetype, area, arrange, array, art form,
     art nouveau, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, aspect, attack,
     attire, background, background detail, bag, baptize, baroque,
     bearing, bedizenment, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm,
     behavioral science, bent, bias, bilge, binomen, binomial name,
     blain, bleb, blister, blob, blood, bon ton, boss, bow, brand,
     bravura, breed, brilliance, bubble, build, bulb, bulge, bulla,
     bump, bunch, burin, burl, button, byword, cachet, cahot, call,
     calyx, capability, capacity, carpel, carriage, cast, category,
     character, characteristic, characterize, chic, chine, chosen kind,
     christen, clan, classicalism, classicism, cleverness, cloisonnism,
     clothes, clothing, clump, cognomen, color, coloring, comfort,
     command, command of language, competence, complexion, comportment,
     conceive, conceptual art, conduct, condyle, configuration,
     conformation, constructivism, control, convention, conventionalism,
     convex, coordination, corolla, corolla tube, corona,
     cosmopolitanism, costume, couch, couch in terms, course, craft,
     craftsmanship, craze, cryptonym, cubism, culture pattern, cunning,
     cup of tea, custom, cut, dash, decorative composition,
     decorative style, define, deftness, demeanor, denominate,
     denomination, deportment, description, design, designate,
     designation, detail, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness,
     diction, die, diplomacy, do, doing, doings, dowel, drapery, dress,
     dressing, druthers, dub, duds, ear, early renaissance, earth art,
     effect, efficiency, eidolon, elan, elegance, elementarism,
     embody in words, empty title, engraving tool, entitle, epicalyx,
     epithet, eponym, etching ball, etching ground, etching needle,
     etching point, euonym, exaggeration, existentialism, expertise,
     express, expression of ideas, expressionism, facet, facility, fad,
     fancy, fashion, fashionableness, fatigues, favor, feather,
     feathers, feature, feeling for words, field, fig, figuration,
     figure, finesse, flair, flange, flap, foil, folkway,
     foreground detail, form, form of speech, format, formation,
     formularize, formulate, forte, frame, free abstraction, futurism,
     gall, garb, garments, gear, genre, genus, gestalt, gestures,
     give expression to, give words to, gnarl, goings-on, grace,
     grace of expression, grain, grandiloquence, graver, grip, guise,
     gynoecium, habiliment, habit, hallucinatory painting, handiness,
     handle, haute couture, high fashion, hill, honorific, horsemanship,
     hump, hunch, hyponym, idealism, identify, idiosyncrasy, ilk, image,
     imago, impression, impressionism, in style, inclination, inflation,
     ingeniousness, ingenuity, inner form, intaglio, international,
     intimism, intuitionism, investiture, investment, jog, joggle,
     kidney, kin, kind, kinetic art, knob, knot, know-how, knur, knurl,
     label, language, latest thing, layout, leaning, light, likeness,
     line, line of action, lineaments, linear chromatism, linen, lines,
     lip, literary style, long suit, look, loop, lot, lump, luxury,
     main interest, maintien, make, makeup, manner, manner of speaking,
     manner of working, mannerism, manners, mark, marksmanship,
     mastership, mastery, matrix, matter painting, means, medieval,
     megasporophyll, method, methodology, methods, metier,
     microsporophyll, mien, minimal art, modality, mode,
     modern, modernism, modus operandi, modus vivendi, mold, mole,
     moniker, mood, motif, motions, mountain, movement, movements,
     moves, mysticism, name, namesake, national style, naturalism,
     nature, needle, neoclassicism, neoconcrete art, neoconstructivism,
     nevus, nickname, nomen, nomen nudum, nominate, nonobjectivism,
     nuagism, nub, nubbin, nubble, number, observable behavior, op art,
     opulence, order, ornamental motif, panache, papilloma, paragraph,
     partiality, particular choice, pattern, peculiarity, peg, pencil,
     perianth, period, period style, personal choice, personal style,
     persuasion, pet subject, petal, phase, phasis, photomontage,
     phrase, phraseology, phrasing, phylum, pistil, poetic realism,
     poetic tachism, point, pointillism, poise, polish, port, pose,
     postexpressionism, posture, practical ability, practice, praxis,
     predilection, predisposition, preference, preimpressionism,
     prejudice, prepossession, presence, present, prevailing taste,
     primitivism, procedure, proceeding, process, proclivity,
     proficiency, proper name, proper noun, proper thing, prototype,
     prowess, punch, purism, pursuit, put, put in words, quality,
     quickness, quietistic painting, race, rage, rags, raiment,
     readiness, realism, receptacle, reference, refinement, regard,
     repeated figure, representationalism, representationism, resource,
     resourcefulness, respect, rhetoric, rhetorize, rib, ridge, ring,
     ritziness, robes, rocker, romanticism, routine, savoir-faire,
     savvy, school, scientific name, scorper, seal, seamanship,
     secret name, seeming, semblance, sense of language, set, set out,
     setting, shape, shoulder, side, significant form, simulacrum,
     skill, skillfulness, slant, smartness, social science,
     sophistication, sort, specialism, speciality, specialization,
     specialty, species, specify, spine, spirit, splendor, sportswear,
     stamen, stamp, state, stigma, strain, stream of fashion, stripe,
     strong point, structure, stud, stylish, stylishness,
     stylistic analysis, stylistics, suprematism, surrealism, swim,
     symbolism, synchromism, synthesism, system, tab, tachism, tack,
     tact, tactfulness, tactics, tag, tailor, taste, tastefulness,
     tautonym, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill,
     technicality, technique, tendency, tenor, term, the drill,
     the grand style, the how, the like of, the likes of,
     the plain style, the sublime, the way of, theme, thing, threads,
     timing, title, togs, toilette, tone, torus, total effect, touch,
     traditionalism, trait, treatment, trend, tribe, trick, trim,
     trinomen, trinomial name, tubercle, tubercule, turn, twig, twist,
     type, unism, variety, vein, verruca, vesicle, vestment, vesture,
     view, viewpoint, virtuosity, vocabulary, vocation, vogue,
     vorticism, wale, wart, way, way of life, ways, weakness, wear,
     wearing apparel, welt, wise, wit, wizardry, word, wording,


      The visual presentation or formatting of web
     content, chiefly either HTML content with style controlled
     by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) or XML content controlled
     by XSL.  Style is distinguished from meaning, which is
     encoded with semantic markup.  The latter deals with logical
     divisions of content such as headings, lists and paragraphs.

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