trait
See also: traït
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French trait (“line, feature”), from Latin tractus (“drawing, pulling”). Doublet of tract.
Pronunciation
- enPR: trāt, IPA(key): /tɹeɪt/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "traditional British pronunciation, now virtually obsolete" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. enPR: trā, IPA(key): /tɹeɪ/
- Rhymes: -eɪt, -eɪ
- Homophones: tray, trey (one pronunciation)
Noun
trait (plural traits)
- (biology, psychology) An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.
- Synonym: characteristic
- 1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits, Truth:
- The English, of all classes, value themselves on this trait, as distinguishing them from the French, who, in the popular belief, are more polite than true.
- 1916, John Dewey, Democracy and Education:
- The positive and constructive aspect of possibility gives the key to understanding the two chief traits of immaturity, dependence and plasticity.
- The number one personality trait I hate is hypocrisy. Why can't you be consistent!?
- (object-oriented programming) An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.
- 2006, Nathaniel J. Nystrom, Programming languages for scalable software extension and composition[1]:
- Traits are parametrized on other methods, which must be provided to create a class using the trait. Using a trait-like mechanism to compose large collections of mutually-dependent classes or traits could lead to parameter explosion.
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Translations
an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
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Further reading
- “trait”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- trait on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- phenotypic trait on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- trait (computer programming) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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French
Etymology
From Old French trait, from Latin tractus.
Pronunciation
Noun
trait m (plural traits)
- line
- trait
- color of a mineral
- (dated) the action of hauling or pulling (by an animal of burden)
- (dated) straps or cords placed on an animal of burden and attached to the vehicle which the animal pulls
- (obsolete) an action reflecting a favorable or adverse intention by one person toward another
- a remarkable or influential historical event
- a particular passage in a speech that is well-written; an excellent or appealing characteristic of a speech
- a vibrant, brilliant, or innovative idea
- (religion) verses sung in a Mass between the gradual and the gospel reading
- connection or link between one thing and another
- (geology) color of the dust produced by a mineral
- (chess, checkers) the privilege of taking the first turn/move
- (oriented-object programming) trait
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Verb
trait
- third-person singular present indicative of traire
- third-person singular past historic of traire
- past participle of traire
Further reading
- “trait”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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