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Attribut — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • attribute noun A quality or characteristic that belongs to a person or thing.
  • epithet noun A term used to characterize a person or thing.
  • modifier noun One who, or that which, modifies.
  • qualifier noun One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.

Senses

Attribut is used for these senses in English:

  • attribute A characteristic or quality of a thing.
  • attribute (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.
  • attribute (computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object.
  • epithet A term used to characterize a person or thing.
  • modifier (grammar) A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or phrase. (It may be any of the following: an adjective phrase, an adverb phrase, a prepositional phrase, a noun phrase, or a subordinate clause.)
  • qualifier (grammar) A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; one that adds or subtracts attributes to another.

attribute — full definition

  1. noun A quality or characteristic that belongs to a person or thing.
  2. noun A property or setting associated with a data object, in computing.
  3. verb To say that something is caused by or belongs to a particular source.

epithet — full definition

  1. noun A term used to characterize a person or thing.
  2. noun A term used as a qualifier of the name of a deity in order to designate said deity in a particular aspect or role.
  3. noun A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
  4. noun One of many formulaic words or phrases used in the Iliad and Odyssey to characterize a person, a group of people, or a thing.

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