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style
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)
- Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.
- (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.
- A tool with a sharp point used in engraving; a burin, a graver, a stylet, a stylus.
- The gnomon or pin of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
- (botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
- Synonym: stylet
- (surgery) A kind of surgical instrument with a blunt point, used for exploration.
- Synonym: stylet
- (zoology) A small, thin, pointed body part.
- Synonym: stylet
- (entomology) A long, slender, bristle-like process near the anal region.
- (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.
- (by extension from sense 1.1) A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good.
- 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.
- 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.
- A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art.
- A particular manner of acting or behaving; (specifically) one regarded as fashionable or skilful; flair, grace.
- A particular way in which one grooms, adorns, dresses, or carries oneself; (specifically) a way thought to be attractive or fashionable.
- (computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as boldface or italics.
- (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.
- A particular manner of acting or behaving; (specifically) one regarded as fashionable or skilful; flair, grace.
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)
- (transitive) To design, fashion, make, or arrange in a certain way or form (style)
- (transitive, formal) To call or give a name or title to.
- Synonyms: designate, dub, name; see also Thesaurus:denominate
- (transitive, informal) To create for, or give to, someone a style, fashion, or image, particularly one which is regarded as attractive, tasteful, or trendy.
- (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)
- style (manner of doing something)
- (botany) style (of a flower)
- fashion, trend, style
- (colloquial) style (personal comportment)
- flair
- (art) style; method characteristic of an artist; artistic manner or characteristic by which an artistic movement may be defined
- gnomon, style (needle of a sundial)
- (dated, historical) stylus, style (implement for writing on tablets)
- complement of jargon particular to a field; style (manner of writing specific to a field or discipline)
- 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
- Alternative form of stile (“stile”)
Etymology 2
From Medieval Latin stylus.
Noun
style
- Alternative form of stile (“style”)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st?.l?/
Noun
style
- plural of styl
- accusative plural of styl
- 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)
- (Brazil, slang) stylish
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school
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: sko?ol, IPA(key): /sku?l/
- Rhymes: -u?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English scole, schole (“group of persons, multitude, host, school of fish”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop of people, swarm of animals”), from Old Dutch *scola, *skola (“troop, multitude”), from Proto-Germanic *skul? (“crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)k?el- (“crowd, people”). Cognate with Middle Low German sch?le (“multitude, troop”), Old English scolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, school of fish”). Doublet of shoal. Compare Hebrew ???????????? (“*(s)c?l?–education”), Hebrew ??????????? (“*(s)k?ol–cluster”).
Alternative forms
- skull (obsolete)
Noun
school (plural schools)
- (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
- The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.
- A multitude.
Synonyms
- (fish): shoal
Translations
Verb
school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)
- (intransitive) (of fish) To form into, or travel in a school.
Etymology 2
From Middle English scole, from Old English sc?l (“place of education”), from Proto-Germanic *sk?la (“school”), from Late Latin schola, scola (“learned discussion or dissertation, lecture, school”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (skholeîon), from ????? (skhol?, “spare time, leisure; conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), from Proto-Indo-European *se??- (“to hold, have, possess”). Doublet of schola and shul. Compare Old Frisian sk?le, sch?le (“school”) (West Frisian skoalle, Saterland Frisian Skoule), Dutch school (“school”), German Low German School (“school”), Old High German scuola (“school”), Old Norse skóli (“school”).Influenced in some senses by Middle English schole (“group of persons, host, company”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop, band”). See school1. Related also to Old High German sigi (German Sieg, “victory”), Old English si?e, sigor (“victory”).
Alternative forms
- schole (obsolete)
Noun
school (plural schools)
- (US, Canada) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
- (Britain) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
- (Britain) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.
- Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.
- An art movement, a community of artists.
- The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time.
- (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
- 1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper
- Let no man be less confident in his faith […] by reason of any difference of judgment , which is in the several schools of Christians.
- 1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper
- The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
- The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
- The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.
- He was a gentleman of the old school.
- 1883, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, But Yet a Woman
- His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools.
- An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.
Synonyms
- (institution dedicated to teaching and learning): academy, college, university
- (organizational unity within an educational institution): college, department, faculty, institute
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:school
Coordinate terms
- (institution providing primary and secondary education): nursery school, kindergarten, college, polytechnic, university
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Verb
school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)
- (transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).
- (transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
- 1998, Leigh Jones, "National bar exam methods win in ADA regulation test," The Journal Record, April 13,
- A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court.
- 2007, Peter David and Alvin Sargent, Spider-Man 3, Simon and Schuster, ?ISBN, pg. 216,
- "You again?" Sandman demanded. "I guess you didn't learn your lesson."
- "This time I'm gonna school you."
- 1998, Leigh Jones, "National bar exam methods win in ADA regulation test," The Journal Record, April 13,
- (transitive) To control, or compose, one's expression.
Derived terms
- schooling
Translations
Further reading
- school on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- school (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- school (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- cholos
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sxo?l/
- Hyphenation: school
- Rhymes: -o?l
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch schôle, from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek ????? (skhol?).
Noun
school f (plural scholen, diminutive schooltje n)
- A school, educational institution that provides education, whether combined with research or not
- A thematic educational institute within a larger one, such as in a university for a single research field.
- Any organisation providing instruction.
- A movement or stylistic trend.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: skool
- ? Northern Ndebele: isikolo
- ? N?uu: skool
- ? Sotho: sekolo
- ? Southern Ndebele: isikolo
- ? Shona: chikoro (through a Nguni intermediate)
- ? Tsonga: xikolo
- ? Venda: tshikolo
- ? Xhosa: isikolo
- ? Zulu: isikole
- ? Papiamentu: skol
- ? Sranan Tongo: skoro
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch sch?le, from Old Dutch *skola, from Proto-Germanic *skul?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)k?el- (“crowd, people”).
Noun
school f (plural scholen, diminutive schooltje n)
- A school, group of fish or other aquatic animals.
Derived terms
- samenscholen
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
school
- singular past indicative of schuilen
- first-person singular present indicative of scholen
- imperative of scholen
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