fashion

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior.
• noun Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode.
• noun Manner or mode; way: synonym: method.
• noun A personal, often idiosyncratic manner.
• noun Kind or variety; sort.
• noun Shape or form; configuration.
• transitive verb To give shape or form to; make.
• transitive verb To train or influence into a particular state or character.
• transitive verb Archaic To adapt, as to a purpose or an occasion.
• transitive verb Obsolete To contrive.
• idiom (after/in) In some way or other, especially to a limited extent.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Same as farcy: usually in the plural.
• To form; give shape or figure to; mold: as, to fashion toys.
• To fit; adapt; accommodate.
• To frame; invent; contrive.
• noun The make or form of anything; the state of anything with regard to its external appearance or constitution; shape: as, the fashion of the ark, or of the tabernacle.
• noun Customary make or style in dress, ornament, furnishings, or anything subject to variations of taste or established usage; specifically, that mode or style of dress and personal adornment prevalent at any time in polished or genteel society: as, the latest fashions; what so changeable as fashion?
• noun Manner; way; mode.
• noun [In this sense used with a specific adjective or noun to form a phrase or a compound noun in adverbial construction: as, to ride man-fashion; to speak American fashion.]
• noun Custom; prevailing practice.
• noun Conformity to the ways of fashionable society; good breeding; gentility; good style.
• noun Lady T. Lud, Sir Peter! would you have me be out of the fashion?
• noun Fashionable people collectively: as, the beauty and fashion of the town were present.
• noun Manner, Practice, etc. See custom.
• noun Conventionality, style.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
• transitive verb To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to.
• transitive verb To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.
• transitive verb obsolete To forge or counterfeit.
• transitive verb (Knitting Machine) a needle used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it.
• noun The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; ; workmanship; execution.
• noun 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.
• noun Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
• noun Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.
• noun to a certain extent; of a sort; sort of.
• noun (Naut.) one of the timbers which terminate the transom, and define the shape of the stern.
• noun a pictorial design showing the prevailing style or a new style of dress.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun countable A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
• noun countable A style, or manner, in which to do something.
• noun uncountable Popular trends.
• verb To make, build or construct.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb make out of components (often in an improvising manner)
• noun how something is done or how it happens
• noun the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior
• noun consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode
• noun characteristic or habitual practice