a slender bristlelike or tubular process | a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent |
a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving | the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals |
how something is done or how it happens | the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange |
distinctive and stylish elegance | a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation |
the popular taste at a given time | the manner in which something is greeted |
a particular kind (as to appearance) | a phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister |
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 | a result |
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 | |