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Etymology

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FromLatinattributus past participle ofattribuere.

Pronunciation

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Noun
Verb

Noun

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Examples (grammar)
  • My jacket is more expensive than yours. ("my" qualifies "jacket")

attribute (pluralattributes)

  1. Acharacteristic orquality of a thing.
    His finestattribute is his kindness.
  2. Anobject that is consideredtypical of someone or some function, in particular as anartisticconvention.
    The eagle and the bolt of lightning areattributes of Jove.
  3. (grammar) A word that qualifies anoun.
    Synonym:qualifier
  4. (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; apredicate; anaccident.
  5. (computing, object-oriented programming) Anoption orsetting belonging to someobject.
    This packet has its coherencyattribute set to zero.
    A file with the read-onlyattribute set cannot be overwritten.
  6. (programming) Asemantic item with which amethod or other code element may bedecorated.
    Properties can be marked as obsolete with anattribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used.
    • 2003, Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted Neward,C# in a Nutshell, page536:
      Thisattribute is used to declare in metadata that the attributed method or class requiresSocketPermission of the declared form.
  7. (computer graphics, dated) Anumericvalue representing thecolours of part of thescreendisplay.
    • 1987, Marcus Berkmann,Sceptre Of Bagdad (video game review) inYour Sinclair issue 17
      […] you can only carry two objects, yourattributes clash when you walk past multi-coloured objects and your enemies fly up and down from the ceiling.
    • 1989,PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers:
      If any of the video buffer's backgroundattribute bits are on, MONO converts the attribute to 70h (inverse video).

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Translations

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characteristic or quality
grammar: word qualifying a noun
logic: that which is predicated or affirmed of a subject
computing: the applicable option selection
programming: semantic item

Verb

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attribute (third-person singular simple presentattributes,present participleattributing,simple past and past participleattributed)

  1. (transitive) Toascribe (something)to a given cause, reason etc.; toaffix.
    • 1749,Henry Fielding, chapter I, inThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume(please specify |volume=I to VI), London:A[ndrew] Millar, […],→OCLC, book IV:
      For as this is the liquor of modern historians, nay, perhaps their muse, if we may believe the opinion of Butler, whoattributes 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.
  2. (transitive) Toassociateownership orauthorship of (something)to someone.
    This poem isattributed to Browning.
    • 1664,John Tillotson, “Sermon I. The Wisdom of Being Religious.Job XXVIII. 28.”, inThe Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], 8th edition, London: […] T. Goodwin, B[enjamin] Tooke, and J. Pemberton, […]; J. Round […], andJ[acob] Tonson] […], published1720,→OCLC:
      Weattribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.
    • c.1604–1605 (date written),William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene vi],page244, column 1:
      It is to be recouered, but that the merit of ſeruice is ſeldomattributed to the true and exact performer, I would haue that drumme or another, orhic iacet.
    • 2009,Diarmaid MacCulloch,A History of Christianity, Penguin, published2010, page278:
      Hākim's atypical actions should not beattributed to Islam as much as to insanity, which eventually led him to proclaim himself as Allah, whereupon he was murdered by outraged fellow Muslims.

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofattribute
infinitive(to)attribute
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularattributeattributed
2nd-personsingularattribute,attributest†attributed,attributedst†
3rd-personsingularattributes,attributeth†attributed
pluralattribute
subjunctiveattributeattributed
imperativeattribute—
participlesattributingattributed

Derived terms

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Translations

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attribute a cause or characteristic—seeascribe
to associate ownership or authorship with

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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attribūte

  1. vocativemasculinesingular ofattribūtus
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