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feature
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)
- (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.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- 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.
- (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.
- (music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.
- (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)
- (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)
Translations
Middle English
Noun
feature
- Alternative form of feture
feature From the web:
- what feature is associated with a temperature inversion
- what feature occurs where plates converge
- what feature distinguishes this passage as a foreword
- what feature do platelets possess
- what characteristic is associated with a temperature inversion
- what are the causes of temperature inversion
utility
English
Etymology
utile +? -ity, from Old French utilitet (“usefulness”), from Latin ?tilit?s, from uti (“to use”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ju??t?l.?.ti/
- Rhymes: -?l?ti
Noun
utility (countable and uncountable, plural utilities)
- The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
- Something that is useful.
- (economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
- (philosophy) Well-being, satisfaction, pleasure, or happiness.
- (business, finance) A service provider, such as an electric company or water company; or, the securities of such a provider.
- (computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system or application software.
- I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.
- 1982, InfoWorld (volume 4, number 10, page 35)
- The system includes an 8080 and a Z80 assembler, a Tektronix format downloader and other utilities.
- (sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
Antonyms
- disutility
- inutility
Derived terms
- beautility
- multiutility
- utilitarian
Translations
Adjective
utility
- Having to do with, or owned by, a service provider.
- utility line; utility bill
- Designating of a room in a house or building where mechanical equipment is installed; such as a furnace, water tank/heater, circuit breaker, and/or air conditioning unit; and often equipped with hookups for laundry equipment (washer/dryer).
- utility room
Synonyms
- (state of being useful): usefulness, note
- See also Thesaurus:utility
Spanish
Noun
utility m (plural utilitys)
- (sports) utility
utility From the web:
- what utility services my address
- what utility district am i in
- what utility is heat
- what utility knife used for
- what utility does bitcoin have
- what utility means
- what utility is hot water
- what utility is heat under
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