attribute
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin attributusbor.
English attribute
Borrowed from Latin attributus.
Inflected forms:
form: attributes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: attributes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: attributing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: attributed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: attributed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: attribute
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: attribute
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: attributed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: attribute
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: attributest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: attributed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: attributedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: attributes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: attributeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: attributed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: attribute
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: attributed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: attribute
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: attributed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: attribute
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: attributing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: attributed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: A characteristic or quality of a thing.
pos: noun
examples: His finest attribute is his kindness.
gloss: An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.
pos: noun
examples: The eagle and the bolt of lightning are attributes of Jove.
gloss: A word that qualifies a noun.
pos: noun
gloss: That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
pos: noun
gloss: An option or setting belonging to some object.
pos: noun
examples: This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.
A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten.
gloss: A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
pos: noun
examples: Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used.
This attribute is used to declare in metadata that the attributed method or class requires SocketPermission of the declared form.
gloss: A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: […] 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.
If any of the video buffer's background attribute bits are on, MONO converts the attribute to 70h (inverse video).
gloss: To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.; to affix.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This poem is attributed to Browning.
We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.
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.
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.
Synonyms: refer
Related words: attributive
Derived words: attributal
attributeless
attributeness
attribute-oriented
attribute-oriented programming
deattribute
multiattribute
overattribute
relational attribute
subattribute
underattribute
attributability
attributable
attributed arms
attributee
attributer
attribution
misattribute
reattribute
unattributability
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