Word Finder - feature

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One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.

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An important or main item.

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A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.

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Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).

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A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

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The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.

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one of the features of the landscape

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Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.

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Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.

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(machine learning) An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed.

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The act of being featured in a piece of music.

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The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.

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To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.

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To star, to contain.

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To appear, to make an appearance.

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To have features resembling.

Her favorite feature, her eyes, had always been a pretty shade of turquoise.

What do you consider the model's best feature to be?

What physical feature does he like best about you?

A snowy night closed upon the world, and in the morning one could scarcely recognize a feature of the landscape.

The Great Barrier Reef forms the prominent feature off the north-east coast of Australia; its extent from north to south is 1200 m., and it is therefore the greatest of all coral reefs.

His eyes were captivating, by far the most attractive feature in his darkly handsome face.

Do you mean facial feature?

As regards general form, the most distinctive feature is the great relative length of the tail, which reaches the hocks, and is donkey-like rather than deer-like in form.

The parks are a fine feature of the city; by its charter a fixed percentage of all expenditures for public improvements must be used to purchase park land.

These salt lakes are a very curious feature.

This range encloses many charming valleys and glens; the most prominent feature of its scenery is formed by the forests, chiefly of pines and firs.

The main feature in the pamphlet is the recognition that a spirit of reform is abroad.

It has the rare feature of a complete series of ramparts surrounding it.

The church, which contains numerous interesting monuments, possesses also the unusual feature of an apsidal Decorated chapel.

The remarkable feature of French church polity was its aristocratic nature, which it owed to the system of co-optation; and the exclusion of the congregation from direct and frequent interference in spiritual matters prevented many evils which result from too much intermeddling on the part of the laity.

Another very singular form is A, laminirostris, which has affixed on either side of the maxilla, near the base, a quadrangular ivory-like plate, forming a feature unique in this or almost in any family of birds.

This division (which is not, however, strictly exhaustive) directs special attention to what is undoubtedly the most striking feature of the flora - namely, that of its 693 species no less than 271 reappear in the extreme north.

The only unique feature is the occurrence of a large and a small conical tower at the southern end, which Bent and others considered to be representatives of the human phallus.

This phenomenon of what might have been taken for a piece of Umbrian text appearing in a district remote from Umbria and hemmed in by Latins on the north and Oscan-speaking Samnites on the south is a most curious feature in the geographical distribution of the Italic dialects, and is clearly the result of some complex historical movements.

The most remarkable feature in the geology of Elba is the extent of the granitic and ophiolitic eruptions of the Tertiary period.

Another striking feature of Francis's character was his constant joyousness; it was a precept in his rule, and one that he enforced strictly, that his friars should be always rejoicing in the Lord.

Gaseous Interchanges and their Mechanism.Another feature of the construction of the plant has in recent years come into greater prominence than was formerly the case.

Hence the Mediterranean region is characteristically one of winter rains, the distinctive feature becoming less sharply defined from south to north, and the amount of total annual fall increasing in the same direction.

The central feature of the estate is a château (375 X 150 ft.) of French Renaissance design, after the famous chateau at Blois, France.

A notable feature of modern boiler construction is the mode of building the apparatus of cast iron in either horizontal or vertical sections.

The kirk-session is the first of a series of councils or church courts which are an essential feature of Presbyterianism.

From the number of its cheek-teeth, the banded ant-eater has been regarded as related to some of the primitive Jurassic mammals; but this view is disputed by Mr Bensley, who regards this multiplicity of teeth as a degenerate feature.

The belief in human immortality in some form is almost universal; even in early animistic cults the germ of the idea is present, and in all the higher religions it is an important feature.

The balance of these tendencies has been against the attachment of great importance to sexual selection, and in favour of attaching a great importance to natural selection; but the dominant feature in the recent history of the theory has been its universal acceptance and the recognition that this general acceptance has come from the stimulus given by Darwin.

It has been a feature of great promise in recent contributions to the theory of evolution, that such contributions have received attention almost directly in proportion to the new methods of observation and the new series of facts with which they have come.

The distinguishing feature of this appeal was that the rule of the other appeals did not apply to it.

He was also very judicious in the way in which he expended the limited money at his command; he did not fritter it away in an attempt to make the whole of a building remarkable, but devoted it chiefly to one part or feature, such as a spire or a rich scheme of internal decoration.

But it is worthy of special attention that the mere chemical composition of agricultural and garden soils is, as a rule, the least important feature about them, popular opinion to the contrary notwithstanding.

Some deserts, like those of Central America, are specially characterized by succulents; in other deserts, such as the Sahara, succulents are not a prominent feature.

The essential feature is that the proximal end of the inner membranes is attached to the last pair of tracheal rings; outer tympaniform membranes exist generally between the 2nd, 3rd and 4th bronchial semi-rings.

The special feature of Ibn Ilazm's teaching was that he extended the application of these principles from the study of law to that of dogmatic theology.

This chain is collectively known as the Alps, and is the most important physical feature of the European continent.

In the Roman Catholic Church the most characteristic ritual feature of the festival is now the solemn extinction of the paschal candle after the Gospel at high mass.

In these days the rock-garden is a most important feature, and it requires a good deal of care and skill to arrange the boulders, walks, pools or streams in natural and artistic fashion.

A common feature of the earlier barrows is the enclosing fence, which marked off the site from the surrounding ground.

With reference to their chemical physiology, the gelatinization of the cell-wall, which is so marked a feature, is doubtless attributable to the occurrence along with cellulose of pectic compounds.

They are, therefore, a specialized feature, which has only recently attained its full development.

Another important feature is that the lower canine has a cleft or two-lobed crown, so that it is unlike the incisors to which it is approximated.

In the dreary country still farther north there is a series of rounded hills covered with peat and mosses, the chief feature being Drygarn Fawr (2115 ft.) on the confines of Cardiganshire.

The striking feature of the building is the sculpture of the west pediment, carved in high relief on limestone slabs.

The lateral metacarpal bones are represented only by their lower extremities; the importance of this feature being noticed in the article Deer.

Most of the valleys, lakes and sea lochs run in a south-westerly and northeasterly direction, a feature strikingly exhibited in west Argyllshire.

But slight differences may readily be detected even where no feature interferes noticeably with the monotony.

No feature in Highland scenery is more characteristic than the corries, and in none can the influence of geological structure be better understood.

These rocks form a prominent feature underneath the basalt terraces of the east side of Skye, Raasay and Eigg.