Word Finder - attribute

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A characteristic or quality of a thing.

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His finest attribute is his kindness.

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(grammar) A word that qualifies a noun, a qualifier.

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

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That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.

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An option or setting belonging to some object.

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A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten.

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A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.

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Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used.

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A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.

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

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

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This poem is attributed to Browning.

His usual attribute is the bow.

To attribute blame for some past disaster is rarely useful.

Be sure to attribute authorship of the posting to the posting party.

When using attribute value, each access point has a flag to indicate whether it is the master or a shadow reference.

Not even intelligence can be an attribute of the divine Being.

Many individuals attribute memory loss to aging.

I attribute the change to pure happiness.

We have therefore the idea of an infinite, perfect and all-powerful being - an idea which cannot be the creation of ourselves, and must be given by some being who really possesses all that we in idea attribute to him.

At first Luther's cardinal doctrine of grace appeared to Melanchthon inconsistent with any view of free will; and, following Luther, he renounced Aristotle and philosophy in general, since "philosophers attribute everything to human power, while the sacred writings represent all moral power as lost by the fall."

But he had at least shown that he possessed to an unusual degree the real attribute of a great captain - power over men.

From that treaty emerged a Turkish State with every attribute of empire gone.

Gold embossed edges are a common attribute of antique books of this sort.

Sometimes he was represented in his pastoral character, as when he bears a sheep on his shoulders; at other times he appears as the messenger or herald of the gods with the KfpvKEiov, or herald's staff, which is his most frequent attribute.

Shut out, in spite of the deserved success of his decorations of the cupola of Val de Grace (1664), from any great share in those public works the control of which was the attribute of the new Academy, Mignard was chiefly active in portraiture.

The first difference then between the Categories and the Metaphysics is in the nature of an attribute; and the theory of inherence in the Categories is nearer to Plato and more rudimentary than the theory of predication in the Metaphysics.

The legends of the monks attribute the first religious settlements to the age of Constantine (274-337), but the hermitages are first mentioned in historical documents of the 9th century.

To this simplicity and directness of narrative we may in large measure attribute the fact that when two later evangelists desired to give fuller accounts of our Lord's life they both made this early book the basis of their work.

Some attribute his death to an accident met with in hunting; others believe him to have been poisoned.

If so, the word may be derived from the Semitic ambar (ambergris) to which Eastern nations attribute miraculous properties.

On the other hand, in the Metaphysics, the distinction between inherence and predication disappears; and what is more, the relation of an attribute to a substance is regarded as so close that an attribute is merely the substance modified.

As to the origin of knowledge, Kant's position is that sense, outer and inner, affected by things in themselves, receives mere sensations or sensible ideas (Vorstellungen) as the matter which sense itself places in the a priori forms of space and time; that thereupon understanding, by means of the synthetic unity of apperception, " I think " - an act of spontaneity beyond sense, in all consciousness one and the same, and combining all my ideas as mine in one universal consciousness - and under a priori categories, or fundamental notions, such as substance and attribute, cause and effect, &c., unites groups of sensations or sensible ideas into objects and events, e.g.

He meant a new " speculative " method, dialectic, founded on an assumption which he had already learnt from Schelling, namely, that things which are different but similar can have the same attribute, and therefore be also the same.

It may be regarded in the first place as a mode or variety of feudal tenure, in the second place as a personal attribute or dignity, and in the third place as a scheme of manners or social arrangements.

In 299 B.C. further successes led to the establishment of two new tribes - the Teretina in the upper valley of the Trerus (Sacco) and the Aniensis, in the upper valley of the Anio - while to about the same time we must attribute the construction of two new military roads, both secured by fortresses.

We do not, however, hear of any damage wrought by fire, save in the case of Sallust's palace, which was situated close to the gate by which the Goths had made their entrance; nor is there any reason to attribute any extensive destruction of the buildings of the city to Alaric and his followers.

According to Eusebius and Strabo he was a learned scientist for his day, and some attribute to him a history of Tarsus.

Foxe and Knox attribute to him a prophecy of the death of the Cardinal, who was assassinated on May 29 following, partly at any rate in revenge for Wishart's death.

To Greeks also we shall perhaps attribute the splendid terra-cotta figures found at Veii in 1916.

Patrician rank seems to have been regarded as a necessary attribute of the princeps; and in two cases we are told that it was conferred upon a plebeian princeps by the senate (Vita Juliani, 3; Macrini, 7) .

Others attribute the first use of the term to the Arab conquerors.

Thus one important attribute of an equatorially mounted telescope that, if it is directed to any fixed star, it will follow the diurnal motion of that star from rising to setting by rotation of the polar axis only.

Possibly its use was not confined to a single tribal section, occurring as it does in conjunction with the distinct dynastic names of Mokomba and Mambo, but the Karanga is the only tribe to which the Portuguese chroniclers attribute it.

It is an attribute of judgments and derivatively of propositions.

The point of view is to be modified profoundly by what follows - by the doctrine of the class-concept behind the class, of the form or idea as the constitutive formula of a substance, or, again, by the requirement that an essential attribute must be grounded in the nature or essence of the substance of which it is predicated, and that such attributes alone are admissible predicates from the point of view of the strict ideal of science.

Of a non-self-subsistent or attributive conception definition in its highest attainable form is a recasting of the syllogism, in which it was shown that the attribute was grounded in the substance or self-subsistent subject of which it is.

Here the special attribute of the goddess appears to be health; and in later times she was identified with the Greek goddess of health, Hygieia.

Two sites did contain images where the alt attribute has been used.

Which parts of broken eggshells would you attribute to your own experiences?

Lewis is quick to argue that enacted by Antonio, this final attribute becomes entirely self-serving.

Common attribute include serif, sans-serif, weight, cap height, x-height, spacing, language, and posture.

This is a classic case of ' Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity ' .

Each subschema subentry holds an operational attribute called governing subentry, whose value is its own distinguished name.

With attribute type synonyms, a directory can assign multiple names to the same attribute.

The Arabs are content to attribute it to the ` will of God.'

Metaphysical materialism is the view that everything known is body or matter; but while according to ancient materialists soul is only another body, according to modern materialists mind without soul is only an attribute or function of body.

It makes no difference to attribute mind to all matter, so long as it is attributed as an attribute.

It is at least as materialistic to say that unconscious mind is an attribute of nature as to say that conscious mind is an attribute of brain; and this is the position of Haeckel.

Livingstone goes so far as to say, "nothing that I ever learned of the lion could lead me to attribute to it either the ferocious or noble character ascribed to it elsewhere," and he adds that its roar is not distinguishable from that of the ostrich.

If the polygon intersects itself, care must be taken to attribute to the different parts of the area their proper signs.

With regard to the statements which attribute some work in connexion with Homer to Peisistratus, it was noticed by Wolf that Cicero, Pausanias and the others who mention the matter do so nearly in the same words, and, therefore, appear to have drawn from a common source.