different between mien vs style

English

Etymology

From French mine (whence also Danish mine and German Miene), appearance, perhaps from Breton min (“face of an animal”), or from Latin minio (“to redden”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n
• Homophone: mean

Noun

mien (countable and uncountable, plural miens)

1. (countable, uncountable) Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
   • 1856, Joseph Turnley, The Language of the Eye, p. 111:

     Beauty, like all divine gifts, is everywhere to be seen by the eye of the faithful admirer of nature; and, like all spirits, she is scarcely to be described by words. Her countenance and mien, her path, her hue and carriage, often surpass expression, and soothe the enthusiast into reverie and silence.

   • 2015, Siobhan Roberts, John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician, in: The Guardian, July 23rd 2015

     Although still young at heart and head, he looks more and more like his old friend Archimedes, increasingly bearded and increasingly grey, with an otherworldly mien – a look that should earn him a spot in the online quiz featuring portraits of frumpy old men under the rubric “Prof or Hobo?”

2. (countable) A specific facial expression.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Emin, Mine, mine

French

Etymology

From Middle French mien, from Old French meon, from Latin meum, the neuter of meus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mj??/

Adjective

mien (feminine singular mienne, masculine plural miens, feminine plural miennes)

1. (archaic) my

Derived terms

• le mien (“mine”)

See also

• mon, ma, mes

Further reading

• “mien” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• mine, miné

Old French

Etymology

Latin meum.

Adjective

mien

1. (stressed) my; mine

Usage notes

• chiefly used after an article (un, le, etc.) and before a noun. The noun may be omitted if clear from the context

Descendants

• French: mien

Pitcairn-Norfolk

Etymology

From English main.

Adjective

mien

1. main

Plautdietsch

Pronoun

mien

1. my

See also

• dien (your, thy)
• sien (his)
• mie (me)
• ons (our)
• onsa (us)

Further reading

• Plautdietsch Lexicon of 17,000 words

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /min/

Determiner

mien

1. feminine of min
2. neuter of min
3. plural of min

References

• “mien” in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi??n/

Noun

mien

1. genitive plural of mena

Noun

mien

1. genitive plural of meno

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

mien f

1. carrot

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gem?ne, from Proto-West Germanic *gamain?, from Proto-Germanic *gamainiz, from Proto-Indo-European *?om-moynis. Cognate with German gemein, English mean, Gothic ???????????????????????????? (gamains) and Latin comm?nis.

Adjective

mien

1. common, communal
2. common, everyday
3. general

Inflection

Derived terms

• mienskip

Further reading

• “mien”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English stile, stel, stele, stiel, stiele, stil, still, stille, styele, style, styill, styll, styyl (“writing tool, stylus; piece of written work; characteristic mode of expression, particularly one regarded as high quality; demeanour, manner, way of life; person's designation or title; stem of a plant; period of time”), from Old French style, estile, stil, stile (modern French style), or from Medieval Latin stylus, both from Latin stilus (“pointed instrument, pale, spike, stake; writing tool, stylus; act of setting down in writing, composition; characteristic mode of expression, style; stem of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp; to pierce, prick, puncture, stab; to goad”). Doublet of stylus.

The English word is cognate with Catalan estil (“engraving tool, stylus; gnomon; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace”), German Stiel (“handle; stalk”), Italian stilo (“needle, stylus; fountain pen; beam; gnomon; part of pistil, style”), Occitan estil, Portuguese estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style”), Spanish estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace; part of pistil, style”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: st?l, IPA^(key): /sta?l/
• Homophone: stile
• Rhymes: -a?l

Noun

style (countable and uncountable, plural styles)

1. Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.
   1. (historical) A sharp stick used for writing on clay tablets or other surfaces; a stylus; (by extension, obsolete) an instrument used to write with ink; a pen.
   2. A tool with a sharp point used in engraving; a burin, a graver, a stylet, a stylus.
   3. The gnomon or pin of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
   4. (botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.

      Synonym: stylet
   5. (surgery) A kind of surgical instrument with a blunt point, used for exploration.

      Synonym: stylet

   6. (zoology) A small, thin, pointed body part.

      Synonym: stylet

      1. (entomology) A long, slender, bristle-like process near the anal region.

2. (by extension from sense 1.1) A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good.
   1. A legal or traditional term or formula of words used to address or refer to a person, especially a monarch or a person holding a post or having a title.
3. A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art.
   1. A particular manner of acting or behaving; (specifically) one regarded as fashionable or skilful; flair, grace.
   2. A particular way in which one grooms, adorns, dresses, or carries oneself; (specifically) a way thought to be attractive or fashionable.
   3. (computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as boldface or italics.
   4. (printing, publishing) A set of rules regarding the presentation of text (spelling, typography, the citation of references, etc.) and illustrations that is applied by a publisher to the works it produces.

Alternative forms

• stile (obsolete)
• stylee (music, slang)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????
• ? Korean: ??? (seutail)

Related terms

• stylus

Translations

See also

• substance

Verb

style (third-person singular simple present styles, present participle styling, simple past and past participle styled)

1. (transitive) To design, fashion, make, or arrange in a certain way or form (style)
2. (transitive, formal) To call or give a name or title to.

   Synonyms: designate, dub, name; see also Thesaurus:denominate
3. (transitive, informal) To create for, or give to, someone a style, fashion, or image, particularly one which is regarded as attractive, tasteful, or trendy.
4. (intransitive, US, informal) To act in a way which seeks to show that one possesses style.

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• stile (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• style (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• lyest, tyles

French

Alternative forms

• stile (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French stile, from Old French estile, borrowed from Latin stilus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stil/

Noun

style m (plural styles)

1. style (manner of doing something)
2. (botany) style (of a flower)
3. fashion, trend, style
4. (colloquial) style (personal comportment)
5. flair
6. (art) style; method characteristic of an artist; artistic manner or characteristic by which an artistic movement may be defined
7. gnomon, style (needle of a sundial)
8. (dated, historical) stylus, style (implement for writing on tablets)
9. complement of jargon particular to a field; style (manner of writing specific to a field or discipline)
10. sort, type; category of things

Synonyms

• (manner of doing): façon, manière
• (artistic characteristic): genre
• (needle of a sundial): aiguille (d'un cadran), gnomon
• (stylus): stylet
• (category): espèce, genre, sorte, type

Derived terms

Further reading

• “style” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English sti?el.

Noun

style

1. Alternative form of stile (“stile”)

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin stylus.

Noun

style

1. Alternative form of stile (“style”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?.l?/

Noun

style

1. plural of styl
2. accusative plural of styl
3. vocative plural of styl

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English style.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /is.?taj.li/, /?staj.li/, /i?.?taj.li/

Adjective

style (invariable, comparable)

1. (Brazil, slang) stylish