ATTRIBUTE meaning: Characteristic or quality of something

We found 51 dictionaries that define the word attribute:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

attribute: Merriam-Webster
attribute: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
attribute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
attribute: Collins English Dictionary
attribute: Vocabulary.com
Attribute, attribute: Wordnik
attribute: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
attribute: Wiktionary
attribute: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
attribute: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
attribute: Infoplease Dictionary
Attribute, attribute: Dictionary.com
attribute (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
attribute: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Attribute (computing), Attribute (research), Attribute (role-playing games), Attribute: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Attribute: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
attribute: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
attribute: Rhymezone
attribute: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
attribute: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
attribute: FreeDictionary.org
attribute: Mnemonic Dictionary
attribute: TheFreeDictionary.com
attribute: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
attribute: Merriam-Webster

Art (3 matching dictionaries)

attribute: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
attribute: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

Attribute: Management Dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
attribute: Legal dictionary

Computing (8 matching dictionaries)

attribute: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
attribute: Netlingo
Attribute: Database Glossary
Internet Terms (No longer online)
Internet Terms (No longer online)
Webopedia (No longer online)
I T Glossary (No longer online)
attribute: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
attribute: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

attribute: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)

Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
attribute: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

attribute: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (attribute)

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

Similar:

dimension, ascribe, impute, assign, property, object, trait, descriptor, attr, ascription, more...

Opposite:

detract, diminish, discredit, disregard, belittle

Types:

physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, professional, academic, creative, financial, more...

Phrases:

attribute to, File attribute, Alt attribute, attribute sampling, attribute bias, more...

Adjectives:

important, essential, single, divine, particular, common, key, multi, only, second, special

Colors:

blue, red, green, yellow, purple, more...