Definition of "style" []

• The way in which something is said, done, expressed, or performed: a style of speech and writing. (noun)
• The combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression, execution, or performance characterizing a particular person, group, school, or era. (noun)
• Sort; type: a style of furniture. (noun)
• A quality of imagination and individuality expressed in one's actions and tastes: does things with style. (noun)
• A comfortable and elegant mode of existence: living in style. (noun)

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• "In his paper “De la catégorie de style en histoire des sciences” (Gayon 1996), and in the later Gayon 1999, Jean Gayon presents the different usages of ˜style™ in the historiography of science as falling between two camps (in a way he follows Hacking 1992 here)."
• "I began by translating Perrault’s tales, very nearly word for word; because to me his style has always seemed nearly perfect for its purpose; and the essence of “style” in writing is propriety to its purpose."
• "A more appropriate title would be the _direct style, _ as contrasted with the other, or _indirect style_: the peculiarity of the one being, that it conveys each thought into the mind step by step with little liability to error; and of the other, that it gets the right thought conceived by a series of approximations."