English Explanatory Dictionary

feature

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
  2. An important or main item.
  3. A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
  4. Ellipsis of feature film.
  5. Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
  6. A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
  7. 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.
  8. Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
  9. Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
  10. An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
  11. The act of being featured in a piece of music.
  12. The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
verb
  1. To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
  2. To star, to contain.
  3. To appear, to make an appearance.
  4. To have features resembling.
  5. To think about, understand, or imagine.

Pronunciation

/ˈfiː.t͡ʃəː/ [ˈfɪi̯.t͡ʃəː] /ˈfi.t͡ʃɚ/ [ˈfɪi̯.t͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈfɪi̯.t͡ʃɹ̩] en-us-feature.ogg

Word forms

feature features featuring featured

Etymology

From Middle English feture, from Anglo-Norman feture, from Old French faiture, from Latin factūra, from Latin factus, from Latin faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place, set”). Doublet of facture.

Synonyms

attribute characteristic designation distinction distinctiveness feature hallmark owndom parameter property propriety quality race trait touch whatness

Derived words

albedo feature anti-feature biofeature cofeature creature feature defeature disfeature double feature eigenfeature facial feature featural feature article feature back feature control frame feature creep feature envy feature film featureful feature-length featureless featurely featurephone feature phone featuresome feature story featurette featuretype feature wall featurewise featurish featurism featuritis featurization featurize geofeature macrofeature malfeature microfeature misfeature multifeature nanofeature nonfeature overfeature pedofeature phi-feature subfeature telefeature terafeature triple feature water feature

Translations

Danish: feature Dutch: hoofdartikel Dutch: verslag Finnish: pääjuttu German: Feature German: Feuilleton German: Sonderbeitrag Greek: στήλη Hebrew: כַּתָּבַת נוֹשֵׂא Irish: gnéchlár Italian: rubrica Italian: servizio Italian: speciale Manx: ard-skeeal Portuguese: reportagem Portuguese: artigo Romanian: foileton Romanian: reportaj Russian: фельето́н Spanish: reportaje Spanish: artículo Turkish: özel makale
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