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attribute

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EtymologyEdit

PIE word
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From Latin attributus past participle of attribuere.

PronunciationEdit

Noun
Verb

NounEdit

attribute (plural attributes)

  1. A characteristic or quality of a thing.
    His finest attribute is his kindness.
  2. An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.
    The eagle and the bolt of lightning are attributes of Jove.
  3. (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun, a qualifier.
    In the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket".
  4. (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
  5. (computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object.
    This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.
    A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten.
  6. (programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
    Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used.
    • 2003, Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted Neward, C# in a Nutshell (page 536)
      This attribute is used to declare in metadata that the attributed method or class requires SocketPermission of the declared form.
  7. (computer graphics, dated) A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
    • 1987, Marcus Berkmann, Sceptre Of Bagdad (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 17
      […] you can only carry two objects, your attributes clash when you walk past multi-coloured objects and your enemies fly up and down from the ceiling.
    • 1989, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers
      If any of the video buffer's background attribute bits are on, MONO converts the attribute to 70h (inverse video).

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VerbEdit

attribute (third-person singular simple present attributes, present participle attributing, simple past and past participle attributed)

  1. To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar […], OCLC 928184292, book IV:
      For as this is the liquor of modern historians, nay, perhaps their muse, if we may believe the opinion of Butler, who attributes inspiration to ale, it ought likewise to be the potation of their readers, since every book ought to be read with the same spirit and in the same manner as it is writ.
  2. To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.
    This poem is attributed to Browning.
    • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
      We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.
    • c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene vi], page 244, column 1:
      It is to be recouered, but that the merit of ſeruice is ſeldom attributed to the true and exact performer, I would haue that drumme or another, or hic iacet.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 278:
      Hākim's atypical actions should not be attributed to Islam as much as to insanity, which eventually led him to proclaim himself as Allah, whereupon he was murdered by outraged fellow Muslims.

ConjugationEdit

conjugation of attribute
infinitive attribute
present participle attributing
past participle attributed
simple progressive perfect perfect progressive
present I attribute we attribute I am attributing we are attributing I have attributed we have attributed I have been attributing we have been attributing
you attribute you attribute you are attributing you are attributing you have attributed you have attributed you have been attributing you have been attributing
he attributes they attribute he is attributing they are attributing he has attributed they have attributed he has been attributing they have been attributing
past I attributed we attributed I was attributing we were attributing I had attributed we had attributed I had been attributing we had been attributing
you attributed you attributed you were attributing you were attributing you had attributed you had attributed you had been attributing you had been attributing
he attributed they attributed he was attributing they were attributing he had attributed they had attributed he had been attributing they had been attributing
future I will attribute we will attribute I will be attributing we will be attributing I will have attributed we will have attributed I will have been attributing we will have been attributing
you will attribute you will attribute you will be attributing you will be attributing you will have attributed you will have attributed you will have been attributing you will have been attributing
he will attribute they will attribute he will be attributing they will be attributing he will have attributed they will have attributed he will have been attributing they will have been attributing
conditional I would attribute we would attribute I would be attributing we would be attributing I would have attributed we would have attributed I would have been attributing we would have been attributing
you would attribute you would attribute you would be attributing you would be attributing you would have attributed you would have attributed you would have been attributing you would have been attributing
he would attribute they would attribute he would be attributing they would be attributing he would have attributed they would have attributed he would have been attributing they would have been attributing
imperative attribute

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TranslationsEdit

attribute a cause or characteristic — see ascribe

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AdjectiveEdit

attribūte

  1. vocative masculine singular of attribūtus
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