Style

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Contents 1 Television, movies, and music 2 Other 3 Etymology

Style may refer to:

• Genre, design, format, or looks
• Fashion, applies to a prevailing mode of expression, i.e. clothing.
• Carpel, in botany: part of the pistil of a flower
• The artistic characteristics which signify, unify or distinguishes an artist's work
• Painting style, in art and painting style can refer either to the aesthetic values followed in choosing what to paint (and how) or to the physical techniques employed
• Music genre, category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or "basic musical language"
• Style (manner of address), titles or honorifics, including Chinese courtesy names
• Cascading Style Sheets, in web design
• Style guide and literary genre, in writing
• Stylistics (linguistics), in Linguistics: Variation in the language use of an individual, such as formal/informal style
• Typeface, style is one of the three traditional design features along with size and weight: either regular, italic or condensed
• Style Pairing, a popular South Park Fan pairing of Stan Marsh and Kyle Brovfolski.
• Not to be confused with stile, a step used for crossing a fence

[edit] Television, movies, and music

• Style (Cameo album), released in 1983.
• "Style", a song from the movie Robin and the Seven Hoods
• STYLE (Namie Amuro album), an album by artist Namie Amuro, released in 2003.
• Style (2006 film), a Telugu film starring Raghava Lawrence and Prabhu Deva
• Style (TV series), a CNN fashion series, hosted by Elsa Klensch, from 1980 to 2000
• Style Network, a Comcast-owned cable and satellite television network

[edit] Other

• "Style", a pseudonym of author Neil Strauss
• "Style", on a sundial, the part of the gnomon that casts a shadow
• Style, a book by Sir Walter Raleigh
• "Style", a movie starring Sharman Joshi and Sahil Khan

[edit] Etymology

The word "style" came from Latin stilus = a writing instrument (compare stylus), and originally meant a style of writing. The spelling was influenced by Greek στυλος = "column".