Word Finder - traits

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An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.

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The number one personality trait I hate is hypocrisy. Why can't you be consistent!?

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• characteristic

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An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.

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Traits are somewhat between an interface and a mixin.

I don't know what traits you look for in beef cattle, but they look healthy.

She's got a few of their traits.

Grant showed many admirable and lovable traits.

In central Africa the chimpanzees assume more or less marked gorilla-like traits.

It has been said that these traits go to make the Japanese soldier what he is.

If anything, he was gentle and patient, traits she hadn't expected from a warrior.

He was brusque and candid, two traits she hadn't yet gotten used to.

Those two traits had been important factors in her decision to marry him.

In the East all such traits are exaggerated, a result perhaps rather of the statecraft than of the religions of Egypt and Persia.

The finer traits of Miss Keller's character are so well known that one needs not say much about them.

In 1854 he became Indian agent at Taos, New Mexico, in which position, through his knowledge of the Indian traits and language, he was able to exercise for many years a restraining influence over the warlike Apaches and other tribes.

Yet while presenting these unlovely traits, Herder's character was on the whole a worthy and attractive one.

His history of the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain, written when he was twentyfour years old, is still the standard history of that conflict, and his Winning of the West is probably the best work which has been written on American frontier life of the 19th century, a life that developed certain fundamental and distinctive American social and political traits.

What skills/abilities/character traits make you the best person for this job?

Centuries of alien domination have left their mark upon the character and appearance of the Andalusians, a mixed race, who contrast strongly with the true Spaniards and possess many oriental traits.

Albinism appears, in the processes of heredity, to be sometimes indissolubly correlated with certain peculiar traits.

Religious conviction is one of the most characteristic traits of the Dutch people, and finds expression in a large number of independent religious congregations.

The national traits of the Dutch were a blend of German and English, the national leaning of the Belgians was towards France and French ideals.

Guillaume de Nogaret, his minister, draws a far more flattering picture, enlarging on his charm, his amiability, his modesty, his charity to all men, and his piety; and the traits of this over-coloured portrait are more or less repeated by Yves, a monk of St Denis.

Just as the prophet often misunderstood traditional traits of the sacred history, he may, as an unlearned man, likewise have often employed foreign expressions wrongly.

However, this approach is not suitable for the analysis of fetal genetic traits that do not differ largely from the maternal alleles.

Traits considered exotic include unusual coat colors or an smaller or larger size.

For only thus can we explain how his figure acquires numerous superhuman and ghostly traits, which cannot be explained by any particular historical phenomenon on which it may have been based.

Pichegru's campaigns of 1794 are marked by traits of an audacious genius which would not have disgraced Napoleon.

This earlier Marduk, however, was effaced by the reflex of the political development through which the Euphrates valley passed and which led to imbuing him with traits belonging to gods who at an earlier period were recognized as the heads of the pantheon.

The first conspicuous triumph of the new " spectrographic " art thus established was the record by Huggins in 1879 of the dispersed light of several " white " or Sirian stars, in which the chief traits of absorption were the rhythmical series of hydrogen-lines, then memorably discovered.

All traits he admired.

In fact the later Greek religion did not advance much above the high-water mark of the Homeric, although the poets and philosophers deepened certain of its nobler traits.

The impressions of this journey were embodied in a book called English Traits, published in 1856.

It might be called "English Traits and American Confessions," for nowhere does Emerson's Americanism come out more strongly.

Perhaps the most remarkable traits in Longfellow's character were his accessibility and his charity.

Stories of heroic ancestors and of tribal eponyms intermingle; personal, tribal and national traits are interwoven.

The young king passed his early years amid the terrible anarchy in his island kingdom, which Innocent was powerless to check; but his education was not neglected, and his character and habits were formed by contact with men of varied nationalities and interests, while the darker traits of his nature were developed in the atmosphere of lawlessness in which he lived.

Regardless of the precise origin of their ancestors, a few generations of harsh New England winters finalized the traits of the breed, creating a very hardy, large, intelligent, long-haired cat.

These traits are valued in many kinds of situations.

This does not mean of course that the religion had no ethical traits - ethical motives are frequently found in the old Oriental religions - but they were bound up with certain naturalistic conceptions of the relation between deities and men, and herein lay their weakness.4 In the age of the Assyrian supremacy Palestine entered upon a series of changes, lasting for about three centuries (from about 740), which were of the greatest significance for its internal development.

After the marriage of the Princess Royal in 1858, the new responsibilities devolving upon Princess Alice, as the eldest daughter at home, called forth the higher traits of her character, and brought her into still closer relationship with her parents, and especially with her father.

His ancestry was mingled English and Holland Dutch, and had flourished upon Long Island more than 150 years - long enough to have taken deep root in the soil and to have developed, in its farmers and seafaring men, many strong family traits.

It is idle, however, to read definite historical events intc such traits, or to attempt, with some scholars, to convert them into history itself.

These traits are most clearly marked in Judaism; but, after the Achaemenid period, they are common to all Oriental creeds, though our information as to most is scanty in the extreme, In this competition of religions that of Iran played a most spirited part.

His idea would have been a parliamentary republic on the American lines, with some traits of the Swiss constitution to keep in touch with the regionalist and provincialist inclinations of many parts of the peninsula.

They have none of the individuality and traits of personal character discernible in the persons addressed by Horace in his Satires and Epistles.

The effect is produced partly by the comments of the evangelist, which especially take the form of citations from the Old Testament; partly by the frequency with which certain expressions are used, and the prominence that is given in this and other ways to particular traits and topics.

The only redeeming traits of Queen Isabella's reign were a war against Morocco, which ended in an advantageous treaty and some cession of territory; some progress in public works, especially railways; a slight improvement in commerce and finance.

The older traits show themselves partly in the manifestation of various Els, and partly in the cruder anthropomorphism of the earlier sources.

His influence was due partly to his astronomical and mathematical eminence, but still more to the ascetic dignity of his nature and his superiority to ordinary weaknesses - traits which legend has embalmed.

It wasn't important who they inherited their traits from, but it was a brief look at the soul of this mysterious woman no one seemed to understand.

Human-Deidre was enamored by the world; it was one of the traits that drew him.

The deity managing the Future was wise in the way of an ancient immortal that had seen everything since the time-before-time, yet laid back and friendly, two traits Gabe didn't expect.

Despite his less-than-serious nature, Dan was detail oriented and quick to execute, two traits Brady found priceless over their years together.