Definitions for attributes

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attributes at·trib·ute

Spelling: [verb uh-trib-yoot; noun Attributes is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 624 anagrams from letters in attributes (abeirstttu).

Definitions for attributes

noun

1. something attributed as belonging to a person, thing, group, etc.; a quality, character, characteristic, or property:
2. something used as a symbol of a particular person, office, or status:
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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).
6. Logic. (in a proposition) that which is affirmed or denied concerning the subject.
7. Obsolete. distinguished character; reputation.

verb (used with object)

1. to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to):
2. to consider as a quality or characteristic of the person, thing, group, etc., indicated:
3. to consider as made by the one indicated, especially with strong evidence but in the absence of conclusive proof:
4. to regard as produced by or originating in the time, period, place, etc., indicated; credit; assign:

Origin of attributes

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 attributes

Deep were my musings, as to the race and attributes of that ethereal being.

This uniqueness is a trait that she attributes to her early success as a dominatrix.

Borrowed help has the awkwardness which Emerson attributes to borrowed thoughts.

He attributes it, in part, to a growing partisan split among voters.

Its attributes of youth are the activity and eager life with which it is redundant.

With what warmth of benevolence—how should he be otherwise than warm in any of his attributes?

But that is one of the attributes of Mr. Gladstone which endear him so much to his party.

But the school has other attributes that may have appealed to the Koch group.

The Facebook co-founder and his politically ambitious husband embodied all the attributes of a bona fide “gay power couple.”

He dubbed it Nupedia, and it had two attributes: it would be written by volunteers, and it would be free.