Attribute is a 9 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 269 anagrams from letters in attribute (abeirtttu).
Definitions for attribute
noun
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something attributed as belonging to a person, thing, group, etc.; a quality, character, characteristic, or property:
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something used as a symbol of a particular person, office, or status:
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Grammar. a word or phrase that is syntactically subordinate to another and serves to limit, identify, particularize, describe, or supplement the meaning of the form with which it is in construction. In the red house, red is an attribute of house.
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Fine Arts. an object associated with or symbolic of a character, office, or quality, as the keys of St. Peter or the lion skin of Hercules.
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Philosophy. (in the philosophy of Spinoza) any of the essential qualifications of God, thought and extension being the only ones known.
Compare mode1 (def 4b).
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Logic. (in a proposition) that which is affirmed or denied concerning the subject.
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Obsolete. distinguished character; reputation.
verb (used with object)
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to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to):
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to consider as a quality or characteristic of the person, thing, group, etc., indicated:
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to consider as made by the one indicated, especially with strong evidence but in the absence of conclusive proof:
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to regard as produced by or originating in the time, period, place, etc., indicated; credit; assign:
Origin of attribute
1350-1400; Middle English Latin attribūtus allotted, assigned, imputed to (past participle of attribuere), equivalent to at- at- + tribū- (stem of tribuere to assign (t
Examples for attribute
We attribute his successes or failures to the presence or lack of some special sauce that he does or does not possess.
Hence, to attribute the support solely to the surface area is erroneous.
On the other hand, he has retained an attribute reminiscent of the other ex-fundies.
I can only attribute it to the love interest associated with the beggar.
He was very irreligious, and entirely wanting in every attribute of a Christian.
Sure, Nancy has the fish-out-of-water thing going on, but that attribute often defines Piper.
We attribute no special merit to a man for having served when all were serving.
But, to my shame and confusion, I must say, that I know too well to what to attribute his transports.
The human soul is an attribute of God, as is everything else; it is an attribute of God in His power.
They are tall and light-skinned, when compared with other south Indians, and some attribute their appearance to Arab blood.