attribute
See also: Attribute
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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From Latin attributus past participle of attribuere.
PronunciationEdit
- Noun
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈæt.ɹɪ.bjuːt/
- (General American) enPR: ătʹrĭ-byo͞ot', IPA(key): /ˈæt.ɹɪ̈ˌbjut/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ætɹɪbjuːt
- Hyphenation: at‧tri‧bute
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈtɹɪb.juːt/
- (General American) enPR: ə-trĭbʹyo͞ot', IPA(key): /əˈtɹɪbˌjut/
- (when conjugated as attributing or attributed) IPA(key): /əˈtɹɪb.(j)ət/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪbjuːt
- Hyphenation: at‧trib‧ute
NounEdit
attribute (plural attributes)
- A characteristic or quality of a thing.
- His finest attribute is his kindness.
- 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.
- (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.
- (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.
- This attribute is used to declare in metadata that the attributed method or class requires
- (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).
- 1987, Marcus Berkmann, Sceptre Of Bagdad (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 17
SynonymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:characteristic
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
characteristic or quality
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grammar: word qualifying a noun
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logic: that which is predicated or affirmed of a subject
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computing: the applicable option selection
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, 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.
- 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 […] (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 | ||||||||||
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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 |
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
attribute a cause or characteristic — see ascribe
to associate ownership or authorship with
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Further readingEdit
- “attribute” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “attribute” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /at.triˈbuː.te/, [ät̪ːrɪˈbuːt̪ɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /at.triˈbu.te/, [ät̪ːriˈbuːt̪e]
AdjectiveEdit
attribūte