idiom

(noun)

An artistic style (for example, in art, architecture, or music); an instance of such a style.

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Examples of idiom in the following topics:

  • FROM THE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

    • The publication in this country of a grammar of similar plan and scope seems fully justified at the present time, as all recent editions of classic texts summarize in introductions the special idioms of grammar and style peculiar to individual authors.

  • Horizontal Communication

    • Finally, corporations that operate in different geographic locations, particularly internationally, may struggle with horizontal communication across time zones as the confront the barriers of local idioms, customs, and languages.

  • Japanese Art after World War II

    • Contemporary paintings within the modern idiom began to make conscious use of traditional Japanese art forms, devices, and ideologies.
    • At times, all of these schools (along with older ones, such as the Kano school ink traditions) were drawn on by contemporary artists in the Japanese style and in the modern idiom.

  • Analyzing the Who, Why, and Where

    • Some idioms and expressions that may seem natural and make sense to you may actually be quite confusing to people of different cultures or languages.

  • Southern Style Temples in Southeast Asia

    • Dravidian architecture was an architectural idiom that emerged in the Southern part of the Indian subcontinent, or South India.

  • Analogies

    • Analogy is important not only in ordinary language and common sense (where proverbs and idioms give many examples of its application ), but also in science, philosophy, and the humanities.

  • Codices of the Mixtec

    • This means that no idiom or phrase in the Mixtec language describing two people sitting facing each other is a metaphor for marriage.

  • Calligraphy during the Six Dynasties Period

    • This celebrated work of literature both flows rhythmically and gives rise to several Chinese idioms.

  • No Conversations in the Bug Tracker

    • A common idiom is to start a list discussion, put a link to the thread in the ticket, and then when the discussion finishes, paste the final summary into the ticket (along with a link to the message containing that summary), so someone browsing the ticket can easily see what conclusion was reached without having to click to somewhere else.

  • Contemporary Indian Art

    • Though the group was dissolved in 1956, it was profoundly influential in changing the idiom of Indian art.