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
- noun A quality or characteristic that belongs to a person or thing.
- noun A property or setting associated with a data object, in computing.
- verb To say that something is caused by or belongs to a particular source.
epithet — full definition
- noun A term used to characterize a person or thing.
- 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.
- noun A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
- 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.