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substile

substile is the alternative form of substyle.

Meaning of substyle

Noun

substyle (plural substyles)

  1. A secondary or subsidiary style.
    • In this way, breakdancing, hardbeat, acidhouse, acidbeat, hip-hop, punk, rockabilly and streetmusic make up a plurality of substyles launched by the record companies which take over the national markets, […]1997, Alison J. Ewbank, Fouli T. Papageorgiou, Whose Master's Voice?: The Development of Popular Music in Thirteen Cultures
  2. A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a sundial is erected, being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane perpendicular to it passing through the style.
    • which is the distance of the Substyle from the Perpendicular[…]1699, Joseph Moxon, A Tutor to Astronomy and Geography […] , page 168

Forms of substile

pluralsubstiles

Questions about substile

What is substile the alternative form of?
Substile is the alternative form of substyle.

Words near substile in the dictionary

  1. substems
  2. substep
  3. substeps
  4. substernal
  5. substernally
  6. substile
  7. substiles
  8. substimulatory
  9. substipitate
  10. substituend
  11. substituenda

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Adapted from Wiktionary: substile (page history and authors); substyle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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