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Style vs Nominate - What's the difference?

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Style is a related term of nominate.


As verbs the difference between style and nominate

is that style is while nominate is to name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office.

As adjectives the difference between style and nominate

is that style is elegant, stylish while nominate is (zoology) nominotypical.

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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    nominate

    English

    Verb

    (nominat)
  • To name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office.
  • (obsolete) To entitle, confer a name upon.
  • * 1658': the City of ''Norwich'' [...] was enlarged, builded and '''nominated by the ''Saxons''. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 12)

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (zoology) nominotypical
    • the nominate subspecies

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