FASHION

definition

-The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a cost, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.

-The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc, in the fashion.

- Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as; men of fashion.


- Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.

-To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.

-To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; with to.

-To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.

- To forge or counterfeit.

-characteristic or habitual practice

- how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion".

- The latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior.

- make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks".


minor definition

1. To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
2. To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.
3. To forge or counterfeit.
4. To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to.
5. Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.
6. The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.
7. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.
8. Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.
9. a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
10. conventional usage in dress, manners, etc., esp. of polite society, or conformity to it: the dictates of fashion; to be out of fashion.
11. manner; way; mode: in a warlike fashion.
12. the make or form of anything: He liked the fashion of the simple, sturdy furniture.
13. a kind; sort: All fashions of people make up the world.
14. Obs.workmanship.
15. Obs.act or process of making.
16. after or in a fashion, in some manner or other or to some extent; in a makeshift, unskillful, or unsatisfactory way: He's an artist after a fashion.
17. to give a particular shape or form to; make: The cavemen fashioned tools from stones.
18. to accommodate; adjust; adapt: doctrines fashioned to the varying hour.
19. Shipbuilding.to bend (a plate) without preheating.
20. Obs.to contrive; manage.