style
verb/staɪl/
/staɪl/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they style | /staɪl/ /staɪl/ |
| he / she / it styles | /staɪlz/ /staɪlz/ |
| past simple styled | /staɪld/ /staɪld/ |
| past participle styled | /staɪld/ /staɪld/ |
| -ing form styling | /ˈstaɪlɪŋ/ /ˈstaɪlɪŋ/ |
- style something to design, make or shape something in a particular way
- an elegantly styled jacket
- He'd had his hair styled at an expensive salon.
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- style somebody/something/yourself + noun (formal) to give somebody/something/yourself a particular name or title
- He styled himself Major Carter.
- The company was originally styled ‘Imperial Designs’.
clothes/hair, etc.
give name/title
Word OriginMiddle English (denoting a stylus, also a literary composition, an official title, or a characteristic manner of literary expression): from Old French stile, from Latin stilus. The verb dates (first in sense (2)) from the early 16th cent.
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