Style vs Choice - What's the difference?
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A manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.
* Chesterfield
* C. Middleton
* I. Disraeli
* Sir J. Reynolds
flair; grace; fashionable skill
(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.
* Burke
(nonstandard) A stylus.
(obsolete) A pen; an author's pen.
A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
A long, slender, bristle-like process.
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.
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
An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
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One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
Anything that can be chosen.
The best or most preferable part.
* Milton
Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.
Especially good or preferred.
(slang, New Zealand) Cool; excellent.
In obsolete terms the difference between style and choice
is that style is a pen; an author's pen while choice is a sufficient number to choose among.As nouns the difference between style and choice
is that style is a manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one while choice is an option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.As a verb style
is to create or give a style, fashion or image.As an adjective choice is
especially good or preferred.style
English
Noun
(en noun)- Style is the dress of thoughts.
- the usual style of dedications
- It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work.
- The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar merit.
- As a dancer, he has a lot of style .
- the style of Majesty
- one style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe
- (Dryden)
- the anal styles of insects
- applying styles to text in a wordprocessor
- Cascading Style Sheets
Derived terms
* stylish * stylist * hairstyle * style guide * style manualSee also
* substanceVerb
(styl)- 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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English
(wikipedia choice)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}
- Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?
- The ice cream sundae is a popular choice for dessert.
- The flower and choice / Of many provinces from bound to bound.
- I imagine they [the apothegms of Caesar] were collected with judgment and choice .
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (anything that can be chosen) assortment, range, selection * the cream * See alsoAdjective
(en-adj)- It's a choice location, but you will pay more to live there.
- Choice ! I'm going to the movies.
