ALL meanings of attribute
at·trib·ute
A a - verb attribute If you attribute something to an event or situation, you think that it was caused by that event or situation. 3
- verb attribute If you attribute a particular quality or feature to someone or something, you think that they have got it. 3
- verb attribute If a piece of writing, a work of art, or a remark is attributed to someone, people say that they wrote it, created it, or said it. 3
- countable noun attribute An attribute is a quality or feature that someone or something has. 3
- verb attribute to regard as belonging (to), produced (by), or resulting (from); ascribe (to) 3
- noun attribute a property, quality, or feature belonging to or representative of a person or thing 3
- noun attribute an object accepted as belonging to a particular office or position 3
- noun attribute an adjective or adjectival phrase 3
- noun attribute an attributive adjective 3
- noun attribute the property, quality, or feature that is affirmed or denied concerning the subject of a proposition 3
- verb transitive attribute to set down or think of as belonging to, produced by, resulting from, or originating in; assign or ascribe (to) 3
- verb transitive attribute to ascribe as a quality or characteristic 3
- noun attribute a characteristic or quality of a person or thing 3
- noun attribute an object used in literature or art as a symbol for a person, office, etc. 3
- noun attribute a word or phrase used adjectivally 3
- noun attribute Regard something as being caused by (someone or something). 1
- verb with object attribute to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health. 1
- verb with object attribute to consider as a quality or characteristic of the person, thing, group, etc., indicated: He attributed intelligence to his colleagues. 1
- verb with object attribute to consider as made by the one indicated, especially with strong evidence but in the absence of conclusive proof: to attribute a painting to an artist. 1
- verb with object attribute to regard as produced by or originating in the time, period, place, etc., indicated; credit; assign: to attribute a work to a particular period; to attribute a discovery to a particular country. 1
- noun attribute something attributed as belonging to a person, thing, group, etc.; a quality, character, characteristic, or property: Sensitivity is one of his attributes. 1
- noun attribute something used as a symbol of a particular person, office, or status: A scepter is one of the attributes of a king. 1
- noun attribute Grammar. a word or phrase that is syntactically subordinate to another and serves to limit, identify, particularize, describe, or supplement the meaning of the form with which it is in construction. In the red house, red is an attribute of house. 1
- noun attribute Fine Arts. an object associated with or symbolic of a character, office, or quality, as the keys of St. Peter or the lion skin of Hercules. 1
- noun attribute Philosophy. (in the philosophy of Spinoza) any of the essential qualifications of God, thought and extension being the only ones known. Compare mode1 (def 4b). 1
- noun attribute Logic. (in a proposition) that which is affirmed or denied concerning the subject. 1
- noun attribute Obsolete. distinguished character; reputation. 1
- noun attribute personal quality, characteristic 1
- noun attribute grammar: adjective, etc. 1
- abbreviation ATTRIBUTE ascribe 1
- noun Technical meaning of attribute (data) A named value or relationship that exists for some or all instances of some entity and is directly associated with that instance. Examples include the href attribute of an HTML anchor element, the columns of a database table considered as attributes of each row, and the members (properties and methods of an object in OOP. This contrasts with the contents of some kind of container (e.g. an array), which are typically not named. The contents of an associative array, though they might be considered to be named by their key values, are not normally thought of as attributes. 1
- noun attribute A characteristic or quality of a thing. 0
- noun attribute (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun, a qualifier. 0
- noun attribute (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident. 0
- noun attribute (computing) An option or setting belonging to some object. 0
- noun attribute (computing, programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated. 0
- noun attribute (computer graphics, dated) A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display. 0
- verb attribute To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc. 0