Meaning

A characteristic or quality of a thing..

Definitions by Sense

1. A characteristic or quality of a thing.
2. An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.
3. (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.
4. (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
5. (computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object.
6. (programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
7. (computer graphics, dated) A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
8. (transitive) To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.; to affix.

Example Sentences

His finest attribute is his kindness.

The eagle and the bolt of lightning are attributes of Jove.

This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.

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

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

This attribute is used to declare in metadata that the attributed method or class requires SocketPermission of the declared form.

[…] you can only carry two objects, your attributes clash when you walk past multi-coloured objects and your enemies fly up and down from the ceiling.

If any of the video buffer's background attribute bits are on, MONO converts the attribute to 70h (inverse video).

Word Forms

• attributes
• attributing
• attributed
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• attribute
• attributest
• attributedst
• attributeth
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When Should You Use Attribute?

Use attribute when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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