attribute

[at·trib·ute]

An attribute is a quality or characteristic given to a person, group, or some other thing. Your best attribute might be your willingness to help others, like when you stopped traffic so the duck family could cross the street.

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To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).

Noun
an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity

Noun
a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished; "self-confidence is not an endearing property"

Verb
attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"

Verb
decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class"


v. t.
To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).

n.
That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.

n.
Reputation.

n.
A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.

n.
Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.


Attribute

At*trib"ute , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Attributed; p. pr. & vb. n. Attributing.] [L. attributus, p. p. of attribuere; ad + tribuere to bestow. See Tribute.] To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).
We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.
The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer.
Syn. -- See Ascribe.

Attribute

At"tri*bute , n. [L. attributum.] 1. That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.
But mercy is above this sceptered away; . . . It is an attribute to God himself.
2. Reputation. [Poetic] 3. (Paint. & Sculp.) A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules. 4. (Gram.) Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).

That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.

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Usage Examples

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

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Other Usage Examples

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

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