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Word: Attribute
Speech Type: Verb
late 15th century: the noun from Old French attribut; the verb from Latin attribut- ‘allotted’: both from the verb attribuere, from ad- ‘to’ + tribuere ‘assign’
əˈtrɪbjuːt
regard something as being caused by
Short Definition:regard as caused by
Examples:- he attributed the firm's success to the efforts of the managing director
- his resignation was attributed to stress
Word: Attribute
Speech Type: Noun
ˈatrɪbjuːt
a quality or feature regarded as a characteristic or inherent part of someone or something
Short Definition:characteristic quality or feature
Examples:- flexibility and mobility are the key attributes of Britain's army
a piece of information which determines the properties of a field or tag in a database or a string of characters in a display.
Short Definition:piece of information which determines properties of field or tag in database
an attributive adjective or noun.
Short Definition:attributive word
a real property which a statistical analysis is attempting to describe.
Short Definition:subject of statistical analysis
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