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

Noun

(en noun)

A controlled behaviour; self-control.

* Rogers

The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline , are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.

An enforced compliance or control.

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A systematic method of obtaining obedience.

* C. J. Smith

Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience.

A state of order based on submission to authority.

* Dryden

Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, / Obey the rules and discipline of art.

A punishment to train or maintain control.

* Addison

giving her the discipline of the strap

A set of rules regulating behaviour.

A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.

A specific branch of knowledge or learning.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline : too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}

(Bishop Wilkins)

A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.