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style vs device

device vs style

style and device both are nouns.

style is a verb but device is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
style Yes No Yes No
device Yes No No No
As nouns, device is a hyponym of style; that is, device is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than style:
  • style: 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
  • device: something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect
Other hyponyms of style include allegory, analysis, bathos, black humor, black humour, eloquence, fluency, smoothness, euphuism, flatness, expression, formulation, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric, headlinese, jargon, journalese, legalese, delivery, manner of speaking, speech, officialese, pathos, prose, rhetoric, coarseness, saltiness, self-expression, sesquipedality, terseness, turn of expression, turn of phrase, vein, verboseness, verbosity, genre, literary genre, writing style, poetry, digressiveness.
style (noun) device (noun)
a slender bristlelike or tubular process any clever maneuver
a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose
how something is done or how it happens an emblematic design (especially in heraldry)
distinctive and stylish elegance any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery)
the popular taste at a given time something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect
a particular kind (as to appearance)
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
editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display
(botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma
style (verb) device (verb)
designate by an identifying term
make consistent with certain rules of style
make consistent with a certain fashion or style
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