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attribute
/ˈæt.ɹɪˌbjut/
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What does attribute mean?
noun
- A characteristic or quality of a thing.
- An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.
- A word that qualifies a noun.
More meanings (6)
noun
- That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
- An option or setting belonging to some object.
- A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
- (dated) A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
verb
- To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.; to affix.
- To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈæt.ɹɪˌbjut/
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I attribute my being still able to hold the curtain in the right position for looking and listening, entirely to suppressed hysterics.
To their neglect of the warnings of the goddess they attribute all the reverses which have of late years befallen their sect.
More book examples (3)
Bear in mind that the same proposition may be affirmed of anything, which in any attribute necessarily follows from God's absolute nature.
Now the nature of the ideal being was everlasting, but to bestow this attribute in its fulness upon a creature was impossible.
It appears, therefore, that we must attribute the fact that they do not pair to their rejection by their normally coloured comrades.