attribute
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Is attribute a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.Synonyms: qualifier
2. (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
3. (computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object.Examples: "This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero."; "A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten."
4. (programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.Examples: "Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used."; "This attribute is used to declare in metadata that the attributed method or class requires SocketPermission of the declared form."
5. (computer graphics, dated) A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.Examples: "[…] you can only carry two objects, your attributes clash when you walk past multi-coloured objects and your enemies fly up and down from the ceiling."; "If any of the video buffer's background attribute bits are on, MONO converts the attribute to 70h (inverse video)."dated
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.; to affix.Examples: "For as this is the liquor of modern historians, nay, perhaps their muse, if we may believe the opinion of Butler, who attributes inspiration to ale, it ought likewise to be the potation of their readers, since every book ought to be read with the same spirit and in the same manner as it is writ."Synonyms: lay, imputetransitive
2. (transitive) To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.Examples: "This poem is attributed to Browning."; "We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it."; "It is to be recouered, but that the merit of ſeruice is ſeldom attributed to the true and exact performer, I would haue that drumme or another, or hic iacet."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary