Word Confusion: Fashion versus Style

Plural for the noun: fashions
Gerund: fashioning

Third person present verb: fashions
Past tense or past participle: fashioned
Present participle: fashioning

Plural for the noun: styles
Gerund: styling

Third person present verb: styles
Past tense or past participle: styled
Present participle: styling

• In the style associated with a specified place or people
• A prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.
• Mode

Noun:
A popular trend, especially in styles of dress and ornament or manners of behavior

• The production and marketing of new styles of goods, especially clothing and cosmetics

A manner of doing something

• Conventional usage in dress, manners, etc., esp. of polite society, or conformity to it

The make or form of anything

• Shape
• Pattern

[Archaic] Kind

• Sort

Verb, transitive:
To make into a particular or the required form

• [fashion something into] Use materials to make into
• Construct

To adjust

• Adapt
• Fit

[Obsolete] To contrive

• Manage

[Shipbuilding] To bend (a plate) without preheating

Having columns (of the kind specified) used in the formation of compound words

Noun:
A manner of doing something ¹

• A way of painting, writing, composing, building, etc., characteristic of a particular period, place, person, or movement
• A way of using language
• [Usually with negative] a way of behaving or approaching a situation that is characteristic of or favored by a particular person
• An official or legal title ²

A distinctive appearance, typically determined by the principles according to which something is designed

• A particular design of clothing
• A way of arranging the hair

Elegance and sophistication

[Botany; in a flower] A narrow, typically elongated extension of the ovary, bearing the stigma

[Zoology; in an invertebrate] A small, slender pointed appendage

• Stylet

Suffix:
[Botany] Narrow, usually cylindrical and more or less filiform extension of the pistil, which, when present, bears the stigma at its apex ³

[Zoology] Small, pointed process or part

[column, columned] Having columns (of the kind specified) (used in the formation of compound words) ⁴

Verb, intransitive:
To do decorative work with a style or stylus

Verb, transitive:
Design or make in a particular form ¹

• Arrange (hair) in a particular way

[With complement] Designate with a particular name, description, or title ²

“The performance will include the use of the sentir, a lute-like instrument; the qarqaba, sheet-iron cymbals played in castanet-fashion; and, the tbola, large dark-toned drums” (Ash).

“At last there appeared some probability of their accomplishing this, after a most curious and truly Mexican fashion” (Adventures, p 22).

Everything was ship-shape and Bristol-fashion.

Noun:
His hair is cut in the latest fashion.

It was the latest fashion in boots.

It was her greatest horror, to be out of fashion.

Last I saw her, she was reading a fashion magazine.

The work is done in a rather casual fashion.

The dress was something of a warlike fashion.

He could read after a fashion.

“A lamp in the fashion of a silver dove was hung from an almost invisible golden wire in the centre of the room” (Doyle, ch 4).

It has been built in the fashion of an authentic Irish pub.

All fashions of people make up the world.

“Accordingly, for the last three years — ever since he had superintended the building of the new barn — Adam had always been made welcome at the Hall Farm, especially of a winter evening, when the whole family, in patriarchal fashion, master and mistress, children and servants, were assembled in that glorious kitchen, at well-graduated distances from the blazing fire” (Eliot, ch 9).

We must go about this in an organized fashion.

Verb, transitive:
The bottles were fashioned from green glass.

The skins were fashioned into boots and shoes.

The cavemen fashioned tools from stones.

The figure was fashioned from clay.

“The clip begins with Joan applying makeup in front of a vanity and fashioning herself into a short wig” (Kang).

Doctrines were fashioned to the varying hour.

“The private dining was fashioned out of dining room space in the back half of the restaurant” (Morago).

The stranded sailor fashioned a fishing rod out of a stick and twine.

“Johnson hit a 3 at the end of overtime to fashion the final score” (Murrell).

Cold-forming allows you to fashion a plate without preheating.

It was church-style all the way.

The setting was antique-style.

Noun:
They had different styles of management.

The concerto is composed in a neoclassical style.

A striking feature of Swift’s style is his use of conjunctions.

He never wrote in a journalistic style.

Students should pay attention to style and idiom.

Backing out isn’t my style.

The partnership traded under the style of Storr and Mortimer.

The pillars are no exception to the general style.

His shoes were in a style that he could wear anywhere.

For a glamorous style, her hair was brushed out after setting.

It was a sophisticated nightspot with style and taste.

“The style does not contain ovules; these are limited to the region of the gynoecium (female organs of the flower) called the ovary” (Style).

“It consists of a protein matrix coated with digestive enzymes secreted by the style sac in the animal’s stomach” (Style (zoology)).

“These stylets are adapted for the piercing of cell walls and usually function by providing the operative organism with access to the nutrients contained within the prey cell” (Stylet).

Suffix:
“They develop into blastostyles or gonozooids or blastozooid” (Structure).

The columns were arranged orthostyle.

“The urostyle of frog is situated at the base of the vertebral column [as] long bone which is formed due to fusion of vertebrae” (How).

Verb, intransitive:
The feather was useful for styling.

A thicker stylus makes styling easier.

Styling is different when using a pen, a feather, a reed, or a digital screen.

Verb, transitive:
The yacht is well proportioned and conservatively styled.

He styled her hair by twisting it up to give it body.

The official is styled principal and vice chancellor of the university.

1. Middle English denoting a stylus, also a literary composition, an official title, or a characteristic manner of literary expression from the Old French stile, which is from the Latin stilus.
2. It was first used in 1570.
3. Cf. stylo- 1.
4. Cf. stylo- 2.