feature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiː.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈfi.t͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -iːtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: features
Etymology: From Middle English feture, from Anglo-Norman feture, from Old French faiture, from Latin factūra, from Latin factus, from Latin faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Doublet of facture.
Senses: examples: text: all the powres of nature, / Which she by art could vse vnto her will, / And to her seruice bind each liuing creature; / Through secret vnderstanding of their feature.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
glosses: An important or main item.
examples: text: A feature interview with a noted personality or a discussion covering a specific issue is then presented.
ref: 1984 April 7, Warren Blumenfeld, “Boston's Other Voice”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
text: He was included in a feature that was written by the EspnCricinfo department on the media.
topics: media
glosses: A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
Ellipsis of feature film.
glosses: Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
examples: text: The program contained an internal feature, which allowed a user to update display text after each command keystroke.
ref: 2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
examples: text: one of the features of the landscape
text: The most prominent feature of the New England land system was the town grant, which in every case became the territorial basis of a group settlement.
ref: 1911, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
text: Another recently discovered cave temple site, Shizikou in Linyou County, Shaanxi, preserves sculptures with thin legs, particularly bodhisattvas, that are much taller and more slender than the figures of this niche but share a number of stylistic features, including a diagonal chest shawl and a dhoti with an overlapping apron of cloth that falls from the waist in the same two-part pattern of scalloped folds and a waist tie hanging down the middle; they have long tubular arms as well.
ref: 2007, Annette L. Juliano, “Niche with Amitabha Buddha and two Guanyin (Skt. Avalokiteshvara) Bodhisattvas [龛式阿弥陀佛和二观音菩萨造像]”, in Buddhist Sculpture from China: Selections from the Xi’an Beilin Museum: Fifth through Ninth Centuries, New York: China Institute, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 100, column 1:
english: 龛式阿弥陀佛和二观音菩萨造像
translation: 龛式阿弥陀佛和二观音菩萨造像
text: England are up and running. Again. It has been a happy feature of the Gareth Southgate years that his team always win their opening tie at tournaments. It never used to be the case with England but to the list that features Tunisia, Croatia and Iran can be added the name of Serbia.
ref: 2024 June 16, David Hytner, “Jude Bellingham gives England winning start but Serbia make Southgate sweat”, in Guardian:
synonyms: word: characteristic
word: designation
word: distinction
word: distinctiveness
word: feature
word: trait
word: property
word: attribute
word: hallmark
word: quality
word: parameter
word: race
word: touch
word: whatness
glosses: The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.
examples: text: A feature of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other features at these sites may include small hearths.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
examples: text: MIT researchers are striving to improve the interpretability of features so decision makers will be more comfortable using the outputs of machine-learning models. Drawing on years of field work, they developed a taxonomy to help developers craft features that will be easier for their target audience to understand.
ref: 2022 June 30, Adam Zewe, “Building explainability into the components of machine-learning models”, in MIT News:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
coordinate_terms: word: parameter
english: output
translation: output
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The act of being featured in a piece of music.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
Derived terms: albedo feature
anti-feature
biofeature
cofeature
creature feature
defeature
disfeature
double feature
eigenfeature
facial feature
featural
feature article
feature back
feature control frame
feature creep
feature envy
feature film
featureful
feature-length
featureless
featurely
featurephone
feature phone
featuresome
feature story
featurette
featuretype
feature wall
featurewise
featurish
featurism
featuritis
featurization
featurize
geofeature
macrofeature
malfeature
microfeature
misfeature
multifeature
nanofeature
nonfeature
overfeature
pedofeature
phi-feature
subfeature
telefeature
terafeature
triple feature
water feature