attribute

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Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • (UK) IPA: /ˈætrɪbjuːt/, SAMPA: /"{trIbju:t/
  • (US) enPR: ă'trĭ-byo͞ot, IPA: /ˈætrɪbjut/, SAMPA: /"{trIbjut/

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• Verb:
  • (UK) IPA: /æˈtrɪbjuːt/, SAMPA: /{"trIbju:t/
  • (US) enPR: ă-trĭb'yo͞ot, IPA: /æˈtrɪbjut/ SAMPA: /{"trIbjut/

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Etymology

From Latin attributus past participle of attribuere.

Noun

attribute (plural attributes)

1. A characteristic or quality of a thing.

   His finest attribute is his kindness.

2. (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.

   In the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket".

3. (computing) The applicable option selection; a variable or a value.

   This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.

4. (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
5. (computing, programming) A semantic item with which a method, etc. may be decorated.

   There are some more implementations which use C# attributes to define custom attributes specific to the AOP engine. Then the classes that need to be intercepted will be decorated with these custom attributes.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:characteristic

Derived terms

attributeness

Related terms

attributive

Translations

characteristic or quality

Albanian: atribut (sq), veti (sq) Bengali: বৈশিষ্ট্য (bn) Bulgarian: качество (bg), свойство (bg) Chinese: Mandarin: 屬性 (cmn), 属性 (cmn) (shǔxìng) Danish: attribut (da) Dutch: attribuut (nl) n. Esperanto: trajto (eo), eco (eo), propreco (eo) Finnish: määrite (fi), attribuutti (fi), ominaisuus (fi)

French: attribut (fr) m. Hungarian: tulajdonság (hu) Japanese: 性質 (seisitsu) Norwegian: attributt (no) m., egenskap (no) m. Polish: atrybut (pl) Portuguese: atributo (pt) m. Russian: свойство (ru) (svójstvo) n., характерная черта (ru) (xaraktérnaja čertá) f., атрибут (ru) (atribút) m. Spanish: atributo (es) m. Swedish: attribut (sv)

grammar: word qualifying a noun

Arabic: ميزة (ar) (miiza) f. Bulgarian: определение (bg) Chinese: Mandarin: 定語 (cmn), 定语 (cmn) (dìngyǔ) Finnish: attribuutti (fi), määre (fi)

French: épithète (fr) f. or déterminant (fr) m., depending on which class it belongs Hungarian: jelző (hu) German: Attribut (de) n. Japanese: 限定詞 (ja) (げんていし, genteishi) Russian: определение (ru) (opredelénije) n., атрибут (ru) (atribút) m.

computing: the applicable option selection

Albanian: atribut (sq) Chinese: Mandarin: 屬性 (cmn), 属性 (cmn) (shǔxìng)

Finnish: attribuutti (fi) German: Attribut (de) n. Japanese: 属性 (zokusei)

Verb

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

1. To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.
   • 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.

2. To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.

   This poem is attributed to Browning.

Derived terms

attributable attribution

Translations

to associate ownership or authorship with

Albanian: atribuoj (sq) Bulgarian: приписвам (bg), отдавам (bg) Czech: připisovat (cs) Dutch: toeschrijven (nl) Esperanto: atribui (eo) French: attribuer (fr) German: zuschreiben (de)

Hungarian: tulajdonít (hu) Ido: atribuar Papiamentu: atribui Polish: przypisać (pl) Portuguese: atribuir (pt) Russian: приписывать (ru), относить (ru) Spanish: atribuir (es)

External links

• attribute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• attribute in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Latin

Adjective

attribūte

1. vocative masculine singular of attribūtus