attribute

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EnglishEdit

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PronunciationEdit

Noun:
- (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈætɹɪbjuːt/
- (US) enPR: ă'trĭ-byo͞ot, IPA^(key): /ˈætɹɪbjut/
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Verb:
- (UK) IPA^(key): /æˈtɹɪbjuːt/
- (US) enPR: ă-trĭb'yo͞ot, IPA^(key): /æˈtɹɪbjut/
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EtymologyEdit

From Latin attributus past participle of attribuere.

NounEdit

attribute (plural attributes)

A characteristic or quality of a thing.
His finest attribute is his kindness.
(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".
(logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
(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.
(computing, programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
Properties can marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used.
(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).

SynonymsEdit

See also Wikisaurus:characteristic

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from attribute

attributeless

attributeness

relational attribute

Related termsEdit

attributive

TranslationsEdit

characteristic or quality

Albanian: atribut (sq), veti (sq)
Bengali: বৈশিষ্ট্য (boiśiṣṭy)
Bulgarian: ка́чество (bg) n (káčestvo), сво́йство (bg) n (svójstvo)
Cebuano: kinaiya
Chinese:
Mandarin: 屬性 (zh), 属性 (zh) (shǔxìng)
Danish: attribut (da)
Dutch: attribuut (nl) n, eigenschap (nl) f
Esperanto: trajto, eco (eo), propreco
Finnish: määrite (fi), attribuutti (fi), ominaisuus (fi), piirre (fi)
French: attribut (fr) m
Galician: atributo (gl) m
Haitian Creole: atribi
Hungarian: tulajdonság (hu)
Irish: aitreabúid f, dílseacht f
Japanese: 性質 (ja) (seisitsu)

Javanese: ngubungake
Khmer: គុណលក្ខណៈ (kounalokkhan)
Lao: ໃຫ້ເຫດຜົນ
Latin: attributum m
Malay: sifat
Marathi: संबंध लावणे n (sambandha lāvaṇē)
Norwegian: attributt m, egenskap (no) m
Polish: atrybut (pl)
Portuguese: atributo (pt) m
Russian: сво́йство (ru) n (svójstvo), характе́рная черта́ f (xaraktérnaja čertá), атрибу́т (ru) m (atribút), ка́чество (ru) n (káčestvo)
Spanish: atributo (es) m
Swahili: sifa (sw)
Swedish: attribut (sv)
Tagalog: katangian

grammar: word qualifying a noun

Arabic: مِيزَة‎ f (mīza)
Bulgarian: определе́ние (bg) n (opredelénie)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 定語 (zh), 定语 (zh) (dìngyǔ)
Czech: přívlastek (cs) m
Estonian: täiend
Finnish: määrite (fi), attribuutti (fi)
French: épithète (fr) f or déterminant (fr) m, depending on which class it belongs

German: Attribut (de) n, Beifügung (de)
Hungarian: jelző (hu)
Japanese: 限定詞 (げんていし, genteishi)
Portuguese: atributo (pt) m
Romani:
Kalo Finnish Romani: attribuutos
Russian: определе́ние (ru) n (opredelénije), атрибу́т (ru) m (atribút)
Slovak: prívlastok

logic: that which is predicated or affirmed of a subject

Irish: aitreabúid f

computing: the applicable option selection

Albanian: atribut (sq)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 屬性 (zh), 属性 (zh) (shǔxìng)
Czech: atribut (cs) m
Finnish: attribuutti (fi), määrite (fi)

German: Attribut (de) n
Japanese: 属性 (ja) (zokusei)
Portuguese: atributo (pt) m
Russian: атрибу́т (ru) m (atribút)
Ukrainian: атрибу́т (uk) m (atrybút)

VerbEdit

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

To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 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.
To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.
This poem is attributed to Browning.
- Archbishop Tillotson
  We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.
- 1604, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, Act III
  It is to be recovered: but that the merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer, I would have that drum or another, or hic jacet.
- 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.