feature
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English feture, from Anglo-Norman feture, from Old French faiture, from Latin factūra, from Latin factus, from Latin faciō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-.
Pronunciation Nounfeature (plural features)
- (obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:
- all the powres of nature, / Which she by art could vse vnto her will, / And to her seruice bind each liuing creature; / Through secret vnderstanding of their feature.
- An important or main item.
- (media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
- (film) Ellipsis of feature film
- Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
- (computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
- The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:characteristic
- one of the features of the landscape
- (archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
- A feature of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other features at these sites may include small hearths.
- (engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
- (statistics, machine learning) An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
- Coordinate term: (output) parameter
- (music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.
- (linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
- French: caractéristique, particularité, spécialité
- German: Besonderheit, Charakteristikum, Eigentümlichkeit, Merkmal, Eigenschaft
- Italian: caratteristica, prestazione, peculiarità, proprietà, attributo, attrattiva, numero
- Portuguese: característica (Brazil), caraterística (Portugal), qualidade
- Russian: осо́бенность
- Spanish: característica, atracción, atractivo
- German: Feature, Feuilleton, Sonderbeitrag
- Italian: rubrica, servizio, speciale
- Portuguese: reportagem, artigo
- Russian: фельето́н
- Spanish: reportaje, artículo
- French: trait (du visage; most always p (traits))
- German: Charakteristikum, Merkmal
- Italian: connotati, lineamenti, fattezze, configurazione, aspetto, fisionomia
- Portuguese: traço, fisionomia
- Russian: черта лицо
- Spanish: rasgo, facciones
- French: fonctionnalité
- German: Feature, Besonderheit, Merkmal, Eigenschaft, Funktion, Funktion
- Italian: funzionalità, accessorio, capacità, specificità, caratteristica
- Portuguese: função, funcionalidade, habilidade, característica (Brazil), caraterística (Portugal)
- Russian: фу́нкция
- Spanish: función, funcionalidad, elemento
feature (features, present participle featuring; simple past and past participle featured)
- (transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
- (transitive) To star, to contain.
- (intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.
- (transitive, dated) To have features resembling.
- Sunday. Reading for the Young (page 219)
- More than his talents, Roger grudged him his looks, the brown eyes, golden hair, and oval face, which made people say how Johnny Weir featured his mother.
- Sunday. Reading for the Young (page 219)
- (Western Pennsylvania English) To think about, understand, or imagine.
- German: bieten, aufweisen, darbieten, besonders herausstellen
- Italian: privilegiare, ascrivere
- Portuguese: priorizar
- Russian: подчёркивать
- Spanish: priorizar
- German: in der Hauptrolle mitspielen
- Italian: interpretare, eseguire, impersonare, recitare
- Portuguese: incluir
- Spanish: protagonizar, presentar, ofrecer, incluir
- Italian: apparire, figurare, impersonare, dirigere, cantare, suonare
- Portuguese: figurar
- Russian: блистать
- Spanish: aparecer, figurar
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