What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Style vs Particularize - What's the difference?

style | particularize | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between style and particularize

is that style is to create or give a style, fashion or image while particularize is to make particular, as opposed to general; to restrict to a specific or individual case, class etc.; to single out.

As a noun style

is a manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.

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

    ----

    particularize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * particularise

    Verb

    (particulariz)
  • To make particular, as opposed to general; to restrict to a specific or individual case, class etc.; to single out.
  • (intransitive) To be specific about (individual instances); to go into detail (about), to specify.
  • *, I.iii.2.1:
  • *:I have disposed of them as I could, and will descend to particularize them according to their species.
  • * Atterbury
    • He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but particularizes his descent from Benjamin.
  • *1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 110:
  • *:Now it is his daily work to particularize , item by item, the iniquities of the system, and the petty manifestations of the tyranny here in Arras.
  • To differentiate, make distinct from others.