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Oct 2nd 2011, 16:20

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{{en-verb|attribut|ing}}

{{en-verb|attribut|ing}}
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# (''used with'' '''to''' ''before the [[object]]'') To associate [[ownership]] or [[authorship]] with.

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# To [[ascribe]] (something) {{term|to}} a given cause, reason etc.
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#*'''2009''', {{w|Diarmaid MacCulloch}}, ''A History of Christianity'', Penguin 2010, p. 278:
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#*:Hākim's atypical actions should not be '''attributed''' to Islam as much as to insanity, which eventually led him to proclaim himself as Allah, whereupon he was murdered by outraged fellow Muslims.
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# To associate [[ownership]] or [[authorship]] of (something) {{term|to}} someone.

#: ''This poem is '''attributed''' to Browning.''

#: ''This poem is '''attributed''' to Browning.''

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[edit] English

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[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Etymology

From Latin attributus past participle of attribuere.

[edit] Noun

attribute (plural attributes)

  1. A characteristic or quality of a thing.
    His finest attribute is his kindness.
  2. (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.
    In the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket".
  3. (computing) The applicable option selection; a variable or a value.
    This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.
  4. (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
  5. (computing, programming) A semantic item with which a method, etc. may be decorated.
    There are some more implementations which use C# attributes to define custom attributes specific to the AOP engine. Then the classes that need to be intercepted will be decorated with these custom attributes.

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characteristic or quality

grammar: word qualifying a noun

computing: the applicable option selection

[edit] Verb

attribute (third-person singular simple present attributes, present participle attributing, simple past and past participle attributed)

  1. To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 278:
      Hākim's atypical actions should not be attributed to Islam as much as to insanity, which eventually led him to proclaim himself as Allah, whereupon he was murdered by outraged fellow Muslims.
  2. To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.
    This poem is attributed to Browning.

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Translations

to associate ownership or authorship with

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[edit] Adjective

attribūte

  1. vocative masculine singular of attribūtus
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