different between attribute vs reckon

English

Etymology

From Latin attributus past participle of attribuere.

Pronunciation

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æt??bju?t/
• (General American) enPR: ??tr?-byo?ot', IPA^(key): /?æt????bjut/
• Rhymes: -æt??bju?t
• Hyphenation: at?tri?bute

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??t??bju?t/
• (General American) enPR: ?-tr??byo?ot', IPA^(key): /??t???bjut/
• Rhymes: -?bju?t
• Hyphenation: at?trib?ute

Noun

attribute (plural attributes)

1. A characteristic or quality of a thing.

   His finest attribute is his kindness.

2. An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.

3. (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun, a qualifier.

   In the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket".

4. (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
5. (computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object.

   This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.

   A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten.

6. (programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.

   Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used.

   • 2003, Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted Neward, C# in a Nutshell (page 536)

     This attribute is used to declare in metadata that the attributed method or class requires SocketPermission of the declared form.

7. (computer graphics, dated) A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
   • 1987, Marcus Berkmann, Sceptre Of Bagdad (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 17

     […] 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.

   • 1989, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers

     If any of the video buffer's background attribute bits are on, MONO converts the attribute to 70h (inverse video).

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:characteristic

Derived terms

Related terms

• attributive

Translations

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.
2. To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.

   This poem is attributed to Browning.

   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious

     We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 278:

     H?kim'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.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• attribute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• attribute in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ribattute

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /at.tri?bu?.te/, [ät?????bu?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /at.tri?bu.te/, [?t???i?bu?t??]

Adjective

attrib?te

1. vocative masculine singular of attrib?tus

English

Alternative forms

• reckin (dialectal)
• recken (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian (“to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”) and ?erecenian (“to explain, recount, relate”); both from Proto-Germanic *rekan?n? (“to count, explain”), from Proto-Germanic *rekanaz (“swift, ready, prompt”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?re?- (“to make straight or right”).

Cognate with Scots rekkin (“to ennumerate, mention, narrate, rehearse, count, calculate, compute”), Saterland Frisian reekenje (“to calculate, figure, reckon”), West Frisian rekkenje (“to account, tally, calculate, figure”), Dutch rekenen (“to count, calculate, reckon”), German Low German reken (“to reckon”), German rechnen (“to count, reckon, calculate”), Swedish räkna (“to count, calculate, reckon”), Icelandic reikna (“to calculate”), Latin rectus (“straight, right”). See also reck, reach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k?n/
• Rhymes: -?k?n

Verb

reckon (third-person singular simple present reckons, present participle reckoning, simple past and past participle reckoned)

1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
   • I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.
2. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
   • 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes

     For him I reckon not in high estate Whom long descent of birth, Or the sphere of fortune, raises

3. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
   • 1611, King James Version, Romans 4:9

     […] faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

   • Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.

4. (colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause

   I reckon he won't try that again.

   • 1611, King James Version, Romans 8:18

     For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

   • 1611, King James Version, Romans 6:11

     Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin.
5. To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host
6. (intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
7. To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

   • Parfay," sayst thou, sometime he reken shall."

Synonyms

• number
• enumerate
• compute
• calculate
• estimate
• value
• esteem
• account
• repute

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• calculate
• guess

References

• reckon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• conker, rocken