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Style vs Bename - What's the difference?

style | bename |

As verbs the difference between style and bename

is that style is while bename is (obsolete|transitive) to swear on oath; to solemnly declare; promise; give.

As an adjective style

is elegant, stylish.

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.

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    bename

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To swear on oath; to solemnly declare; promise; give.
  • To name; give a name (to); mention by name; nominate; denominate; call.
  • :* "... the only British commander who, in the general estimation, could benamed as his rival in military fame; …'' — "The Annual Register" (edited by Edmund Burke), 1815
  • :* Unfortunately, the planet has been quite too much benamed''', — '''benamed , indeed, out of all recognition. — Percival Lowell, "Mars", 1896
  • :* As though the benamed things carried the longings of humans; — Mervyn Sprung, "After Truth: Explorations in Life Sense", SUNY Press, p71 1994
  • :* In other words, … that 'names' do not 'form' benamed objects but are mere signifiers … — Roy Ascott, "Engineering Nature: Art & Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era", Intellect Books, 2006
  • To name; call; style; describe as.

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