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say it: stahyl
style is a noun and verb meaning "how something is done or how it happens". It is pronounced /ˈstaɪl/ — stahyl. It carries 12 recorded senses.
a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
“all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper”
language · art · music
(botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma
botany
editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for style come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.