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Style is a related term of aspect.


As a verb style

is .

As an adjective style

is elegant, stylish.

As a noun aspect is

the way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.

style

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.
  • * Chesterfield
  • Style is the dress of thoughts.
  • * C. Middleton
  • the usual style of dedications
  • * I. Disraeli
  • It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work.
  • * Sir J. Reynolds
  • The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar merit.
  • flair; grace; fashionable skill
  • As a dancer, he has a lot of style .
  • (botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
  • A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post.
  • A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post.
  • the style of Majesty
  • * Burke
  • one style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe
  • (nonstandard) A stylus.
  • (obsolete) A pen; an author's pen.
  • (Dryden)
  • A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
  • A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
  • A long, slender, bristle-like process.
  • the anal styles of insects
  • The pin, or gnomon, of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
  • (computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as bold or italic.
  • applying styles to text in a wordprocessor
    Cascading Style Sheets

    Derived terms

    * stylish * stylist * hairstyle * style guide * style manual

    See also

    * substance

    Verb

    (styl)
  • To create or give a style, fashion or image.
  • To call or give a name or title.
  • * 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 10
  • Marianne’s preserver, as Margaret, with more elegance than precision, stiled (SIC) Willoughby, called at the cottage early the next morning to make his personal inquiries.

    Anagrams

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    aspect

    English

    (wikipedia aspect)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
  • The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
  • A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something
  • One's appearance or expression.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Dryden)
  • serious in aspect
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
  • , chapter=4, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect .}}
  • * 2009 , (Hilary Mantel), (Wolf Hall) , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 145:
  • It is Stephen Gardiner, black and scowling, his aspect in no way improved by his trip to Rome.
  • Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass.
  • Prospect; outlook.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Evelyn)
  • This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended.
  • (grammar) A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding.
  • (astrology) The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope.
  • (Milton)
  • (obsolete) The act of looking at something; gaze.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Francis Bacon)
  • The basilisk killeth by aspect .
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Walter Scott)
  • His aspect was bent on the ground.
  • (obsolete) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Thomas Burnet)
  • the true aspect of a world lying in its rubbish
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars)
  • the aspect of affairs
  • (computing, programming) In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.
  • Synonyms

    * (visual expression) blee, appearance, look

    Hyponyms

    (Grammatical aspect) * (grammar) aorist aspect, iterative aspect, perfective aspect, imperfective aspect, semelfactive aspect, progressive aspect, perfect aspect

    Derived terms

    * aspect ratio * aspectual