style
part of speech
noun (a style, styles; style — uncountable); verb (style, styles, styled, styling)
meaning for a pupil
1) A style is a particular way of doing, making or saying something: a style of writing, swimming or painting. tree →
2) A fashion or design for clothes or hair. tree →
3) Style is being elegant or doing something in an impressive way. tree →
4) (verb) To style hair or clothes is to arrange them in a certain way. tree →
sense in the lessons
Used in English lessons: an author's style, formal and informal style. In art: painting in the style of a famous artist. In swimming: freestyle, backstroke. In everyday life: hairstyle, fashion styles. Phrases: "in style", "out of style", "in the style of".
examples
- I like her style of writing. tree →
- We painted in the style of Van Gogh. tree →
- Front crawl is a swimming style. tree →
- That jacket is the latest style. tree →
- He won the race in style. tree →
- The hairdresser styled my hair. tree →
- Write your letter in a formal style. tree →
- “Messy style of feeding, that,” said Kotick. tree →
note
Countable for kinds (styles), uncountable for elegance (she has style). Adjective: stylish. Do not confuse with "stile" (steps over a fence), which sounds the same.
In the corpora
- Teachers know how their pupils usually write, so a sudden fancy style stands out.
- Chatbots have a typical style, with words like "furthermore" and "in conclusion", that teachers learn to notice.
- Teachers can often tell when work is not a pupil's own, by style, knowledge and mistakes.
- An app that imitates a famous person who has died is a bot copying a style; the person is not there.
- Van Gogh painted his own versions of prints by the Japanese artist Hiroshige to learn from them, and that influence changed his style.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «style» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.