Attribute

Definition: Attribute

Attribute

Noun

1. A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished; "self-confidence is not an endearing property".

2. An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity.

Verb

1. Attribute to a source or cause; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare".

2. Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "attribute" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Computing

Aerospace

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Language

Meteorology & Standards

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Attribute

Accompaniment

Concomitant, accessory, coefficient; companion, buddy, attendant, fellow, associate, friend, colleague; consort, spouse, mate; partner, co-partner; satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow; escort, cortege; attribute.

Attribution

Verb: attribute to, ascribe to, impute to, refer to, lay to, point to, trace to, bring home to; put down to, set down to, blame; charge on, ground on; invest with, assign as cause, lay at, the door of, father upon; account for, derive from, point out the reason; theorize; tell how it comes; put the saddle on the right horse.

Power

Capability, capacity; quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent; faculty, quality, attribute, endowment, virtue, gift, property, qualification, susceptibility.

Crosswords: Attribute

German (attributes).

They're used to curious sights, which they attribute to alcoholic delusions. (Batman; writing credit: Bob Kane; Lorenzo Semple Jr.)

It is an historical fact, sharing has never been humanity's defining attribute. (X2; writing credit: Zak Penn; David Hayter)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• 2002 Projector Attribute Comparative Analysis [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Attribute Games and Activities (reference)

• Attribute Grammars (reference)

• Attribute Grammars and Their Applications: International Conference Waga Paris, France, September 19-21, 1990:Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Compute) (reference)

• Attribute Grammars: Definitions, Systems , and Bibliography (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 323) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Ercb Pipeline Attribute File Quarterly Updates - Magnetic Tape (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Control Charts for Attribute Data (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Simple Technology 2MB Card with Attribute Sram (Static Ram) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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In truth, he was startled, if not shocked, to find this attribute in the physician.

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Health

Memory problems and personality changes may also lead a physician to mistake PSP for depression, or even attribute symptoms to some form of dementia. (references)

The recognition of depression may be more difficult in late compared with early life. In the elderly age group, both clinicians and patients may incorrectly attribute depressive symptoms to the aging process. (references)

Parents, relatives, and peers who are unfamiliar with the disorder may incorrectly attribute the tics and other symptoms to psychological problems, thereby increasing the social isolation of those with the disorder. (references)

Children

Ghana

In the report, officials attribute the lower female enrollment to the fact that many girls marry early or become pregnant. (references)

Algeria

NGO's that specialize in care of children cite an increase in domestic violence aimed at children, which they attribute to the "culture of violence" developed during the years since 1992 and the social dislocations caused by the movement of rural families to the cities to escape terrorist violence. (references)

Civil Liberties

China

Others attribute the decline to the success of the Government crackdown on Falun Gong, which, by the end of the year, had essentially eliminated public manifestations of the movement. (references)

Economic History

El Salvador

Local textile companies attribute this to high quality standards and delivery reliability. (references)

Russia

Russian Customs may attribute such shipments to Europe rather than the United States despite the U.S. origin of the product. (references)

Tunisia

LOCAL DISTRIBUTORS ATTRIBUTE MUCH OF THE COST DIFFERENTIAL (UP TO 30 OR 40 PERCENT) TO THE ADDITIONAL CHARGES ADDED BY EUROPEAN INTERMEDIARIES OF U.S. SUPPLIERS. (references)

Human Rights

Ecuador

Many victims attribute the incidents to Colombian armed groups. (references)

Uzbekistan

Government officials acknowledge that some inmates died, but attribute the deaths to illness or suicide. (references)

Kenya

The authorities sometimes attribute the absence of an investigation into an alleged extrajudicial killing to the failure of citizens to file official complaints. (references)

Minorities

Bangladesh

They attribute this to the education that the British offered 150 years ago, which Muslims boycotted but Hindus embraced. (references)

Pakistan

Like Ahmadis many Christians complain about the difficulty that their children face in gaining admission to government schools and colleges, a problem they attribute to discrimination. (references)

Trade

Cote D'ivoire

The Ministry can also attribute this status for goods that will be re-exported to other countries if a bonded warehouse is not used. (references)

Women

Malaysia

Police attribute the increase to more vigorous enforcement efforts. (references)

Iceland

Some local human rights monitors also attribute underreporting to the fact that convictions traditionally yield light sentences: The maximum penalty for rape is 16 years, but the actual sentences imposed typically are much closer to the minimum sentence of 1 year. (references)

Worker Rights

Sri Lanka

Many NGO's attribute the problem of child exploitation to a lack of law enforcement. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "attribute": attribute of an element ♦ attribute Translation System ♦ attribute value assertion ♦ cost Driver Attribute ♦ text attribute ♦ typographic attribute ♦ typographical attribute. Additional references.

Ending with "attribute": begin-attribute.

Albanian

atribut (Apanage, appanage, predicate), veti (character, peculiarity, point, virtue), vesh (accredit, apparel, array, arrogate, ascribe, attire, back, cannon, clothe, coat, cover up, Don, dress, ear, endue, enrobe, face, garb, gird, hanger, impute, inlay, invest, line, lug, overlay, paper, pop, pull on, put on, raceme, revet, sheathe, tapestry, throw on, tog, vesture, wear, whack), tipar (character, facet, feature, lineament, point, property, trait), ngjit (agglutinate, arrogate, ascribe, attach, braze, climb, fuse, fuze, glue, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, put up, seal, solder, splice, stick, transmit, weld), ngjis (agglutinate, arrogate, ascribe, attach, braze, climb, fuse, fuze, glue, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, put up, seal, solder, splice, stick, transmit, weld), ngarkoj (burden, charge, commission, cumber, delegate, encumber, entrain, entruck, freight, impose, impute, Lade, load, saddle, ship, weight), mbiemër (adjective, cognomen, last name, name, surname). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ميزة (advantage, character, characteristic, excellence, feature, merit, particularity, peculiarity, property, quality, speciality, trait), ‏مسند (back, cushion, pillow, predicable, predicate, predicative, rest, subject), ‏نعت (adjective, attributive, description, epithet, qualification), ‏عزا (assign, impute, refer), ‏صفة مميزة (characteristic, difference, flavor, flavour, property, savor, savour, stamp, turn), ‏صفة نعت أو لغة (adjective, character), ‏صفة خاصية, ‏خصلة عاديه, ‏خصلة (curl of hair, peculiarity, property, quality, quiff), ‏رمز (allegory, character, code, denote, designate, emblem, ensign, figure, icon, image, indication, sign, stand for, symbol, symbolize, telltale, token, type, typify). (various references)

Bulgarian 

определение (adjunct, definition, modifier, qualificative, qualifier), атрибут (predicable, predicament). (various references)

Chinese 

属性 (Attributive), 屬性 (property). (various references)

Czech

atribut, vlastnost (affection, feature, make, nature, point, property, quality, side, trait), rys (character, feature, lineament, lynx, ream, trait), přisuzovat, přívlastek. (various references)

Danish

attribut (attribute of an element, data item, elementary data item, field, item), adled (adjunct, modifier), underled (modifier), felt (bay, category, data item, elementary data item, field, item, panel, switch bay, zone), elementattribut (attribute of an element), elementært dataelement (data item, elementary data item, field, item), element (element), egenskab (property, quality), dataelement (data item, elementary data item, field, item), bestemmelse (destiny, fate). (various references)

Dutch

attribuut (attribute of an element, data item, elementary data item, field, item). (various references)

Esperanto

atributo. (various references)

Faeroese

eyðkenni. (various references)

Farsi 

نسبت دادن (Ascribe, Attach, Credit, Impute), نشان (Aim, Badge, Banner, Brand, Clue, Emblem, Ensign, Hallmark, Impress, Mark, Medal, Memento, Plaque, Presage, Score, Seal, Show, Sign, Signal, Stamp, Standard, Symbol, Symptom, Tally, Target, Token, Trace, Track, Tract), خواص , افتخار (Glory, Honor), شهرت (Emprise, Esteem, Estimate, Fame, Grapevine, Notability, Odor, Renown, Report, Reputation). (various references)

Finnish

määre (adjunct, qualification, qualifier), attribuutti (attribute of an element). (various references)

French

attribut (attributive), attribuer. (various references)

German

attribut (data item, elementary data item, field, item), merkmal (badge, characteristic, distinctive mark, distinguishing mark, earmark, feature, symptom, token, trait), eigenschaft (capacity, character, characteristic, feature, grace, predicate, property, qualification, qualify, quality, trait). (various references)

Greek 

αποδίδω (ascribe, assign, convey, give back, impute, perform, put down, refer, restore). (various references)

Hebrew 

ליחס (attach, refer, relate), לואי (accompanying, adjunct, attachment, auxiliary, if, if only, secondary, would that), לשיך (ascribe, belong, connect), לזקוף (charge an account, erect, lift, raise up, set up), תכו� �" (character, habit, quality, streak, temper, trait). (various references)

Hungarian

tulajdonít valaminek, jellegzetesség (characteristic, characteristics, criteria, criterion, distinctness, feature, physiognomy, proper, trait, type), javára ír (to credit). (various references)

Indonesian

sifat (nature, property, trait). (various references)

Italian

qualit� (asset, brew, characteristic, grade, habit, point, quality, sort), attributo (attributive, distinguishing mark). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

属性 (context), アト�"ー性皮膚炎 (ad, ad impact, add-on, add-on module, adobe, advertisement, at random, atmosphere, atom, atomic, atopic dermatitis, atrium, attraction, attractive, attractor, autoload, studio). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぞくせい (context, earthly life, growing gregariously, growing in clusters, secular surname, this world), アトリ�"ュート . (various references)

Korean 

속성 (Attribution, Attributive). (various references)

Manx

cur gys lieh (ascribe, ascription, attribution, impute), cowrey (badge, beacon, brand, caret, character, check, denotation, emblem, evidence, feature, gesture, hint, indication, intimation, mark, marque, motion, sign, signal, stamp, symbol, symptom, token, trace, wealth). (various references)

Norwegian

kjennetegn. (various references)

Papiamen

atributo. (various references)

Pig Latin

attributeay

Portuguese

atributo (character, predicate, quality). (various references)

Romanian

atribut (adjunct, affection, attributive, emblem, hall mark, sign, symbol), atribui (accredit, allot, assign, attach, impute, refer), apanaj (Apanage, appanage, privilege), calitate (affection, assets, character, class, feature, grade, kind, Mark, merit, property, quality, rank, rate, sort, staple, title, virtue), însuşire (adoption, appropriation, assimilation, feature, peculiarity, property, qualification, trait, virtue). (various references)

Russian 

свойство (apanage, attribute-value, character, characteristic, habitude, property, quality, trait), определение (adjunct, appreciation, definition, designation, determination, evaluation, specification), признак (badge, flag, sign, sign of, symptom, tag, token, vestige). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

atribut, pripisati (accredit, ascribe, ascribe to, credit), pridev (adjective), osobina (characteristic, mannerism, property, propriety, strain, trait). (various references)

Spanish

atributo (characteristic). (various references)

Swedish

attribut (attributes, epihtet), egenskap (capacity, property, qualification, quality, trait). (various references)

Turkish

atfetmek (accredit, arrogate, ascribe, direct, impute, inscribe, refer, set down), araz (accident, symptom), yormak (cream, do in, do up, exhaust, fag, fag out, fatigue, frazzle, knock out, poop, prostrate, strain, take out, task, tax, tire, try, Tucker, tucker out, wear out, wearisome, weary), simge (emblem, embodiment, ensign, epitome, exemplar, image, representation, sign, specimen, symbol, token, type), sembol (banner, emblem, exemplar, representation, sign, standard, symbol, type), sıfat (adjectival, adjective, attribution, attributive, capacity, character, determinant, epithet, title), nitelik (attribution, character, characteristic, composition, eligibility, essence, hallmark, kind, plate-mark, property, qualification, qualitative, quality, stamp), dayandırmak (base, base on, base upon, found, ground, predicate, trace), bağlamak (affiliate, assign, attach, band, bandage, belay, bend, bind, bond, brace, braid, clasp, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, connect, copulate, cord, couple, do up, engage, enthral, enthrall, fasten, fasten up, fix, fixate, grapple, guy, hitch, hook on, hook up, infix, interconnect, interlink, interlock, inthral, join, knit, knit together, knit up, knot, lace, lace up, lash, lash down, leash, ligature, link, link up, lock, lock up, mediatize, oblige, put through, rivet, rope, settle, string, subordinate, switch to, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, truss, unite, Wed), özellik (attribution, cachet, character, characteristic, feature, hall mark, hallmark, idiosyncrasy, particular, particularity, peculiarity, plate-mark, point, property, quality, quiddity, singularity, special feature, speciality, specialty, stamp, strain, trait). (various references)

Ukrainian

символ (badge, by-word, symbol, token, type), характерна риса (cachet, characteristic, peculiarity), властивість (affections, appanage, character, incorruptibility, order, quality, stature, terror), означення (adjunct, attributive), атрибут (appanage), приписувати (accredit, allege, appoint, arrogate, ascribe, assign, attach, credit, credit with, enjoin, foist, ordain, prescribe, refer), пояснювати (account, account for, analogize, authorize, clear, comment, construe, elucidate, explain, illustrate, rationalize, show, translate), поступатися (admit, cede, comply, concede, give ground, give in, knuckle down, knuckle under, listen, relinquish, retreat, surrender, yield), передавати (assign, circulate, communicate, deliver, devolve, give, give over, hand down, hand on, hand over, pass, present, reach, send, transfer, transmit). (various references)

Welsh

priodoliaeth, priodoli (ascribe), priodoledd, cyfrif (account, ascribe, compute, impute, reckon, reckoning). (various references)

adiudicabit, adiudicatus, adiudicavit, adiuncta, adiuncti, adiuncto, adtributa, delego, tribu, tribuam, tribuat, tribuatur, tribue, tribuebam, tribuebat, tribuendo, tribuens, tribuerat, tribuerit, tribuet, tribui, tribuisti, tribuit, tribuitis, tribuo, tributa, tributi, tributis, tributo, tributorum, tributum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "attribute": attributed, attributes. (additional references)

Words ending with "attribute": misattribute, reattribute. (additional references)

Words containing "attribute": misattributed, misattributes, reattributed, reattributes, unattributed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Attribute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arttribute, astribut, atribute, attibute, attributte, ttribute. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: abutter, attrite, battier, biretta, tattier, titrate, tribute.

-3 letters: arbute, attire, baiter, barite, batter, battue, bitter, butter, ratite, rebait, rubati, tatter, tattie, tauter, terbia, titter, tubate, turbit.

-4 letters: aurei, battu, beaut, betta, biter, britt, bruit, brute, buret, butte, irate, rebut, retia, taber, tater, terai, tetra, titer, titre, trait, treat, tribe, trite, tubae, tuber, tutti.

+1 letter: attributed, attributes.

+2 letters: attributive, reattribute.

+3 letters: attributable, attributives, misattribute, reattributed, reattributes, unattributed.

+4 letters: attributively, misattributed, misattributes, reattributing, reattribution.

+5 letters: reattributions, trustabilities, unattributable.