different between feature vs peculiar

English

Etymology

From Middle English feture, from Anglo-Norman feture, from Old French faiture, from Latin fact?ra. Doublet of facture.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fi?t??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fit??/
• Rhymes: -i?t??(?)

Noun

feature (plural features)

1. (obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:

     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.

2. An important or main item.
3. (media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
   1. (film) Ellipsis of feature film
4. Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
5. (computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
6. 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.
7. (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.

8. (engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
9. (statistics, machine learning) An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed.
10. (music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.
11. (linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.

    Hyponyms: gender, number, person, tense

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:characteristic

Derived terms

• featural
• feature article

Translations

Further reading

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

Verb

feature (third-person singular simple present features, present participle featuring, simple past and past participle featured)

1. (transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
2. (transitive) To star, to contain.
3. (intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.
4. (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.

Translations

Middle English

Noun

feature

1. Alternative form of feture

English

Etymology

From Latin pec?li?ris (“one's own”), from pec?lium (“private property”), from pecus (“cattle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??kju?l.j???/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [p???k?ju?l.j??]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [p???k?jul.j???], [p???k?jul.j?]

Adjective

peculiar (comparative more peculiar, superlative most peculiar)

1. Out of the ordinary; odd; strange; unusual.

   Synonyms: odd, strange, uncommon, unusual

   Antonyms: common, mediocre, ordinary, usual

2. Common or usual for a certain place or circumstance; specific or particular.

   Synonym: specific

   Antonyms: common, general, universal

3. (dated) One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not shared or possessed by others.
4. (dated) Particular; individual; special; appropriate.

Synonyms

• (out of the ordinary): see also Thesaurus:strange
• (common or usual in a particular place or circumstance): see also Thesaurus:specific

Antonyms

• (out of the ordinary): see also Thesaurus:normal
• (common or usual in a particular place or circumstance): see also Thesaurus:generic

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

peculiar (plural peculiars)

1. That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.
   • before 1716, Robert South, Twelve Sermons

     If anything can legalize revenge, it should be injury from an extremely obliged person; but revenge is so absolutely the peculiar of heaven.

2. (Britain, canon law) an ecclesiastical district, parish, chapel or church outside the jurisdiction of the bishop of the diocese in which it is situated.

See also

• peculiar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Peculiar in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

References

Anagrams

• pericula

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin pec?li?ris.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /p?.ku.li?a/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pe.ku.li?a?/

Adjective

peculiar (masculine and feminine plural peculiars)

1. peculiar

Derived terms

• peculiarment

Related terms

• peculiaritat

Further reading

• “peculiar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “peculiar” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “peculiar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “peculiar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pec?li?ris.

Adjective

peculiar m or f (plural peculiares, comparable)

1. peculiar; unusual; strange

   Synonyms: esquisito, estranho

2. peculiar (common or usual for a particular place or circumstance)

   Synonym: particular

Related terms

• peculiaridade

Further reading

• “peculiar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pec?li?ris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peku?lja?/, [pe.ku?lja?]

Adjective

peculiar (plural peculiares)

1. peculiar