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Definition: Feature |
FeatureNoun1. A prominent aspect of something: "the map showed roads and other features"; "generosity is one of his best characteristics". 2. The characteristics parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin; "an expression of pleasure crossed his features"; "his lineaments were very regular". 3. The principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater; "the feature tonight is `Casablanca'". 4. A special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine; "they ran a feature on retirement planning". 5. An article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles. Verb1. Have as a feature; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France". 2. Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "feature" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Feature \Fea"ture\, noun. [from Old English expression feture form, shape, feature, Old French faiture fashion, make, from the Latin expression factura making, formation, from facere, factum, to make. See Feat, Fact, and compare to Facture.]. (references) |
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Computing | Feature n. 1. [common] A good property or behavior (as of a program). Whether it was intended or not is immaterial. 2. [common] An intended property or behavior (as of a program). Whether it is good or not is immaterial (but if bad, it is also a misfeature). 3. A surprising property or behavior; in particular, one that is purposely inconsistent because it works better that way -- such an inconsistency is therefore a feature and not a bug. This kind of feature is sometimes called a miswart; see that entry for a classic example. 4. A property or behavior that is gratuitous or unnecessary, though perhaps also impressive or cute. For example, one feature of Common LISP's `format' function is the ability to print numbers in two different Roman-numeral formats (see bells whistles and gongs). 5. A property or behavior that was put in to help someone else but that happens to be in your way. 6. [common] A bug that has been documented. To call something a feature sometimes means the author of the program did not consider the particular case, and that the program responded in a way that was unexpected but not strictly incorrect. A standard joke is that a bug can be turned into a feature simply by documenting it (then theoretically no one can complain about it because it's in the manual), or even by simply declaring it to be good. "That's not a bug, that's a feature!" is a common catchphrase. See also feetch feetch, creeping featurism, wart, green lightning. The relationship among bugs, features, misfeatures, warts, and miswarts might be clarified by the following hypothetical exchange between two hackers on an airliner: A: "This seat doesn't recline." B: "That's not a bug, that's a feature. There is an emergency exit door built around the window behind you, and the route has to be kept clear." A: "Oh. Then it's a misfeature; they should have increased the spacing between rows here." B: "Yes. But if they'd increased spacing in only one section it would have been a wart -- they would've had to make nonstandard-length ceiling panels to fit over the displaced seats." A: "A miswart, actually. If they increased spacing throughout they'd lose several rows and a chunk out of the profit margin. So unequal spacing would actually be the Right Thing." B: "Indeed." `Undocumented feature' is a common, allegedly humorous euphemism for a bug. There's a related joke that is sometimes referred to as the "one-question geek test". You say to someone "I saw a Volkswagen Beetle today with a vanity license plate that read FEATURE". If he/she laughs, he/she is a geek. Source: Jargon File. |
Business | Something offered to the public or to a clientele that is exhibited or advertised as particularly attractive. . . WEBIN 66 1-832. . /. . --mention sur l'étiquette d'un emballage de pain. Source: European Union. (references) |
Census | Any part of the landscape, whether natural (such as a stream or ridge), man-made (such as a road or power line), that can be shown on a map. Related term: Reference map. (references) |
| See map feature, nonstreet feature. (references) | |
Fine Arts | A newspaper story that consists of background or analysis or that depends on universal treatment as contrasted with a straight news story. . Source: European Union. (references) |
| The main presentation in a program at a motion-picture theater. . Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A film of considerable length presented as the main attraction at a theater. . Source: European Union. (references) | |
Language | Any quality or component part of an element which may serve as the basis for describing regular patterns. Depending on the level and emphasis of analysis, features may be classed into accoustic, phonological, grammatical, semantic, secondary, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A marked element of something: something that is esp. prominent: peculiarity, characteristic. . Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Feature means the "make." Spenser speaks of God's "secret understanding of our feature" - i.e. make or structure. It now means that part which is most conspicuous or important. Thus we speak of the chief feature of a painting, a garden, a book, etc., etc. (Norman, faiture; Latin, factura.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Military | In cartography, any object or configuration of ground or water represented on the face of the map or chart. (references) |
Post & Telecom | Item in a PICS table, in PERLs and SERLs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | A distinctive, prominent, or unusual article, story or picture. . . in a newspaper or periodical (an account of the fire was -- of the Sunday supplement). Source: European Union. (references) |
| An item or article appearing regularly in a newspaper, magazine, etc. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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- In geographic information systems, a feature comprises an item of feature data.
- In the leisure industry, a feature may be a feature film.
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In geographic information systems, a feature comprises an entity with a geographic location, typically describable by (for example) points and/or arcs and/or polygons. Carriageways and cadastres exemplify feature data.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Feature data."
Synonyms: FeatureSynonyms: characteristic (n), feature article (n), feature film (n), lineament (n), boast (v), have (v), sport (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: miss (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Component | Noun: component; component part, integral part, integrant part; element, ingredient, leaven; part and parcel; contents; appurtenance; feature; member; (part); personnel. |
Form | Feature, lineament, turn; phase; (aspect); posture,feature, lineament, turn; phase; (aspect); posture, attitude, pose. |
Indication | Characteristic, diagnostic; lineament, feature, trait; fingerprint, voiceprint, footprint, noseprint; cloven hoof; footfall; recognition (memory). |
Speciality | Noun: {opp. } speciality, specialite; individuality, individuity; particularity, peculiarity; idiocrasy; (tendency); personality, characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy; specificness; Adjective: singularity; (unconformity); reading, version, lection; state; trait; distinctive feature; technicality; differentia. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Well it's not my best feature. (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe) She's smart, fun, the hair, the eyes - pick a feature! (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements) It's 19 minutes after the hour, and now it's time for our daily feature The Astrological Hour (The Kentucky Fried Movie; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker) Little gizmo known as a dead man's feature. It was built into the controller handle in case a motorman should ever drop dead (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three; writing credit: John Godey; Peter Stone) Art Fern here, with today's fabulous feature find (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson; writing credit: Michael Barrie) | |
Lyrics | Feature to woo a young lab technician by the name of Jennifer, who of (Mephisto and Kevin; performing artist: Primus) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Creature Feature (1971) Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature (1966) IFF Mark 10: Selective Identification Feature (1963) Feature Theatre (1949) Fatty's Feature Fillum (1917) | |
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The earliest visible stage of HIV replication occurs when viral proteins accumulate under the cell membrane in a process called budding (a). In the next stage a crescent shaped early bud has constricted, forming a membrane-encapsulated sphere, with the dense center called a viral nucleoid (b). As the constricting process continues, the virus pinches off and becomes free extracellular infectious virus (c). At this stage, the dark circular mucleoid condenses into a bar; this morphologic feature is used to discriminate HIV-I from HTLV-II and HTLV-III. See artwork: GR-31. Credit: Dr. Matthew Gonda (photographer). | ![]() | Candida albicans showing germ tubes. Calcofluor white stain in peptone medium. Germ tube production is a diagnostic feature of C. albicans. Credit: CDC. | |
Francisella tularensis is a poorly staining, very tiny gram-negative coccobacillus (0.2-0.7 µm), seen mostly as single cells. Bipolar staining is not a distinctive feature. Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Images of Io (taken by HST) showing surface feature changes. Credit: NASA. | |
![]() | Three-color filter image of Jupiter's best known feature, the Great Red Spot. (Voyager 1). Credit: NASA. | ![]() | The Sulaiman Mountains are a major geological feature of Pakistan and one of the bordering ranges of the Indian subcontinent. Credit: NASA. |
![]() | A series of rocky outcroppings are a prominent feature of this Sahara Desert landscape near the Terkezi Oasis in the country of Chad. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Davidson Seamount named for George Davidson of the C&GS This feature was the first called a "seamount" Officially named by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names Discovered by GUIDE in 1933 Error - latitude should range from 35 to 36. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Newspaper feature on wiredrag in Brooklyn Daily Eagle Wiredrag party of B. H. Rigg. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | The view of the South Pole and the Antarctic Plateau from the station. The ice here is over 9000 feet thick. The nearest land feature is a mountain range over 300 miles away. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| "Reflection" by Caron Wiedrick Commentary: "Reflective feature of the garden." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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| Piano feature with an accompaniment of strings bowed and pizzicato. . | An orchestral opening to a feature film in a style typical of John Williams. | ||
| Marimba and low percussion feature with synthesized flutes added. | Tenor saxophone feature in a style typical of the mid-1960's jazz era. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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Jane Austen | With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. |
Young | What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The abolition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of Communism. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | It appears to me a most perfect resemblance in every feature. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Nor, wild as were these painted barbarians, were they the wildest feature of the scene |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | No feature of the universal countenance is wanting in the profile of Paris |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | They are not a feature of falling asleep. (references) | |
The hallmark feature of autism is impaired social interaction. (references) | ||
A syndrome is a disease or disorder that has more than one feature or symptom. (references) | ||
Business | The security-effectiveness feature of the product is the prime consideration. (references) | |
These often feature detachable handles that can be fitted to a range of tools. (references) | ||
Many lathe producers offer “quick change” tooling packages as a standard feature on new machines. (references) | ||
Children | New Zealand | During the year, the Human Rights Commission funded a public campaign to feature prominent citizens who have suffered from mental disabilities. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Belize | Two independent television stations produce local news and feature programs. (references) |
Belize | Popular radio call-in programs are lively and feature open criticism of and comments on government and political matters. (references) | |
Economic History | Netherlands | Packaging is an important feature for consumers. (references) |
Ukraine | A striking feature of the market is the large number of MC operators. (references) | |
Denmark | Consensus decision-making is the most prominent feature of Danish politics. (references) | |
Human Rights | China | Since 1998 many trials have been broadcast, and court proceedings have become a regular television feature. (references) |
Indonesia | Corruption is a common feature of the legal system, and the payment of bribes can influence prosecution, conviction, and sentencing in civil and criminal cases. (references) | |
Minorities | Macedonia | Ethnic tensions and prejudices were a regular feature of society. (references) |
Political Economy | Costa Rica | However, a few remaining cases continue to feature prominently on the bilateral agenda. (references) |
CHINA | Nevertheless, China's closed capital account means that "black market" trading continues to be a regular feature, albeit small, of the Chinese system. (references) | |
Netherlands | Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles are two autonomous regions of the kingdom; they also feature parliamentary systems and full constitutional protection of human rights. (references) | |
Trade | Uzbekistan | This feature deprives firms of access to their own supply of hard currency for lengthy periods. (references) |
Mexico | The common feature of most labeling requirements is that package labels must carry commercial information in Spanish. (references) | |
Spain | The three-tiered system established for dubbing licenses for feature length films under the 1994 law ended in June 1999. (references) | |
Travel | Argentina | A convenient feature for U.S. travelers is the conversion rate, which by law is set at one peso to one dollar. (references) |
Women | Costa Rica | Television coverage of this issue has increased in news reporting, public service announcements, and feature programs. (references) |
Worker Rights | Lesotho | In traditional society, rigorous and occasionally dangerous working conditions for the country's young livestock, herdboys are considered a prerequisite to manhood, essential to the livelihood of families, and a fundamental feature of local culture beyond the reach of labor laws. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | A distinguishing feature in the operations which preceded and followed this adverse event is the use made by the enemy of the merciless savages under their influence. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The consequences of this feature of the Constitution appear far more threatening to the peace and integrity of the Union than any which I can conceive as likely to result from the simple legislative action of the Federal Government. |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | I should be untrue to myself, to my promises, and to the declarations of the party platform upon which I was elected to office, if I did not make the maintenance and enforcement of those reforms a most important feature of my administration. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This has been a key feature of my Administration's policy, and it should be maintained. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Feature" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.93% of the time. "Feature" is used about 5,954 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.93% | 5,354 | 1,828 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 8.12% | 483 | 12,337 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.95% | 116 | 29,969 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,954 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "feature": antiexplosive feature ♦ attractive feature ♦ basic feature ♦ be a feature of ♦ distinctive feature ♦ double feature ♦ draft feature ♦ ear feature ♦ engineered safety feature ♦ feature article ♦ feature creature ♦ feature creep ♦ feature film ♦ feature flag ♦ feature group A ♦ feature group B ♦ feature in smth. ♦ feature interactions manager ♦ feature key ♦ feature length ♦ feature line overlap ♦ feature program ♦ feature shock ♦ feature writer ♦ fundamental feature ♦ it's a feature ♦ lead feature ♦ lip feature ♦ main feature ♦ markup minimization feature ♦ minimization feature ♦ peculiar feature ♦ popular feature ♦ positive feature ♦ psychological feature ♦ redeeming feature ♦ representational feature units ♦ revolved feature ♦ safety feature ♦ section dome feature ♦ selective identification feature ♦ special feature ♦ specific feature ♦ stability augmentation feature ♦ striking feature ♦ supporting feature ♦ terrain feature ♦ undocumented feature. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "feature": feature-a, feature-based, feature-detection, feature-detector, feature-detectors, feature-film, feature-for-feature, feature-in, feature-length, feature-length film, feature-page, feature-phone, feature-positive, feature-rich, feature-value, feature-values, feature-wise, feature-writer, feature-writing. | |
Ending with "feature": analysis-by-feature, b-feature, double-feature, feature-for-feature, full-feature, photo-feature. | |
Containing "feature": complex-feature-based. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "feature"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | film me metrazh të gjatë (feature-length film), veçori (characteristic, distinction, exclusiveness, flair, peculiar feature, peculiarity, retreat, singularity, speciality, trait), tipar i fytyrës, tipar (attribute, character, facet, lineament, point, property, trait), paraqes (acquaint, bring in, bring up, delineate, demonstrate, denote, develop, display, front, induct, introduce, introduce oneself, obtrude, offer, portray, prefer, present, press, produce, propound, put, put in, recommend, render, represent, serve, show, stand for, submit), përmbaj (carry, check, choke, comprise, constrain, contain, control, Cork, detain, deter, embrace, gulp, hold, hold back, hold in, include, incorporate, pocket, repress, restock, restrain, stay), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), luaj rol kryesor, kryeartikull (editorial, leader, leading article), jam në plan të parë, hollësi (circumstantiality, daintiness, detail, exility, particularity, point, specification, subtlety, tenuity), emision i posaçëm. (various references) | |
Arabic | ميزة (advantage, attribute, character, characteristic, excellence, merit, particularity, peculiarity, property, quality, speciality, trait), ملامح (brow, countenance, face, features, lineaments, mien), مقالة خاصة, هيئة (appearance, aspect, body, cast, face, form, framework, guise, make, organism, organization, shape, staff, touch), قام بدور, تخيل (conceive, dream up, envisage, fancy, fiction, figure, figure to oneself, image, imagine, make believe, picture, project oneself, see, think, vision, visualization, visualize), عرض (array, bid, breadth, broaden, demo, display, evince, exhibit, expose, exposition, exposure, hang, hang out, hold out, imply, indication, introduction, lineup, mount, offer, offering, overture, pageant, parade, predispose, present, presentation, presenting, produce, proffer, propound, recital, retrace, review, set, set out, setting, show, state, statement, subject, submit, surrey, symptom, trot out, widen, width), صورة (configuration, effigy, form, gestalt, idol, image, photograph, picture, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, print, representation, reproduction, resemblance, shot, tableau, take), خصوصية (confidentiality, exclusiveness, particularity, privacy, singularity, speciality), الفيلم الرئيسي (feature film), ظهر (appear, arise, back, brighten up, bring out, come to light, declare, declassify, define, denote, develop, evidence, exercise, exhibit, express, image, indicate, infer, loom, manifest, mark, note, occur, outcrop, parade, peep, play up, poke, pop up, proclaim, produce, reveal, show, show up, spring, surface, turn up, walk), شبه (affinity, assimilate, compare, comparison, imagine, like, liken, likeness, parallelism, propinquity, quasi-, resemblance, resemble, resole, sameness, semblance, similarity, similitude, take after), برز (accentuate, break out, bring out, bulge, come into view, display, emerge, excrete, form, germinate, heighten, image, jut, outcrop, outdo, point, project, protrude, raise, relieve, shine, shoot, show up, spring, stand out, stick, stick out). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | статия (article, contribution, entry, lemma), свойство (property, tincture), характеризирам (characterize, describe, display, stamp, typify), черта на характер, особеност (distinction, lineament, particularity, pattern, peculiarity, point, speciality, trick), отличавам (characterize, differentiate, distinguish), отличителен белег (badge, character, characteristic, difference, marker, note, trademark, trait), номер (event, fetch, hoax, item, jig, number, performance, registration number, size, waggery), показвам в главна роля, показвам на екрана, подробност (circumstance, detail, particular, particularity, piece of detail), играя главна роля (star), игрален филм (photodrama, photoplay), изтъквам (accent, accentuate, adduce, bring out, distinguish, emphasize, highlight, notice, pinpoint, play up, point out, represent, show off, show up, signalize, single out, throw up, urge), изобразявам (depict, depicture, design, embody, figure, image, limn, picture, represent, typify). (various references) | |
Chinese | 特點 (characteristic, trait), 特点. (various references) | |
Czech | vlastnost (affection, attribute, make, nature, point, property, quality, side, trait), vizáž, tah (bender, draught, draw, drawing, haul, heave, move, stroke, thrust), rys (attribute, character, lineament, lynx, ream, trait), oblièej (face, visage), charakterizovat (characterize, describe, label). (various references) | |
Danish | funktion (function), feature, varia, træk (pull), kortdetalje, karakteristisk træk. (various references) | |
Dutch | trek (appetite, pull, trait), karaktertrek (trait), gelaatstrek (trait). (various references) | |
Esperanto | trajto (trait). (various references) | |
Faeroese | eginleiki (property, quality, trait), bragd (trait), andlitsbragd (trait). (various references) | |
Farsi | نمایان کردن , چهره (Face, Puss, Visage), ترکیب (Admixture, Blend, Composition, Compound, Confection, Form, Mixture, Physique, Structure, Syntax, Zygosis), سیما (Air, Appearance, Aspect, Brow, Countenance, Expression, Mien, Visage), طرح صورت , خصوصیات (Particular, Pattern, Quirk), ریخت (Form, Shape), بطوربرجسته نشان دادن . (various references) | |
Finnish | piirre (trait). (various references) | |
French | trait. (various references) | |
German | zug (breath, campaign, catch, characteristic, course, draft, drag, draught, drawing, draw-string, drifting, expedition, flight, flock, groove, gulp, haul, lineament, migration, mouthful, move, platoon, procession, puff, pull, section, shoal, slide, stop, strain, streak, stroke, swig, team, tension, touch, traction, train, trait, transmigration, truck and trailer, tug, up draft, up-draught, whiff), merkmal (attribute, badge, characteristic, distinctive mark, distinguishing mark, earmark, symptom, token, trait), gesichtszug (trait), feature. (various references) | |
Greek | χαρακτηριστικό (lineament, particularity, streak, trait). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מדה (character, degree, dimension, extent, footage, manner, measure, measurement, norm, qualification, qualifications, size), לאפין (characterize, distinguish, typify), תוי (alignment), תו פנים (lineament), תו (label, line, sign), תכונית, תכונה אפינית. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vonás (chalk, dash, draw, line, mil, rhumb, strain, tally, traction), arcvonás (lineament, mien, physiognomy), sajátság (character, characteristic, peculiarity, physiognomy), jellemvonás (characteristic, point, strain, trait), attrakció (stunt). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kenampakan, corak (color, complexion, design, hue, motif, pattern, type), ciri (characteristic, earmark, sign), cap (printed, quality, seal, trademark). (various references) | |
Italian | tratto (circuit, course, itinerary, journey, length, line, lineament, part, reach, stretch, stroke, tract, trait, trip, trunk). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 特徴 (characteristic). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フィーチャー , フィーチャ , とくしゅう (report, special edition), とくしょく (bribery, characteristic, corruption), とくちょう (characteristic, forte, merit). (various references) | |
Korean | 특징. (various references) | |
Manx | taishbyney (argue, demonstrate, display, evidence, evince; parade, exhibit, exposure, manifest, produce, production, reveal, revelation, show, show down, show off, sport), grooish oaie, fraue oaie, cummey (adaptation, appearance, atmosphere, composition, design, devise, fabricate, format, indite, invention, itinerary, mould, outline, plan, prospectus, shape, version), cowrey (attribute, badge, beacon, brand, caret, character, check, denotation, emblem, evidence, gesture, hint, indication, intimation, mark, marque, motion, sign, signal, stamp, symbol, symptom, token, trace, wealth), ard-skeeal (epic). (various references) | |
Norwegian | trekk (draught), innslag, attraksjon. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eaturefay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | característica (attribute, characteristic, full stop, mark, marking, peculiarity, point, property, quality), traço (character, score, smack, streak, stroke, trace, track, trait, umbrage, vestige), feição (garb, lineament, trait). (various references) | |
Romanian | fizionomie (aspect, countenance, look, mien, Phiz, physiognomy), trãsãturã distinctivã (accent, kind), trãsãturã a feţei, trãsãturã (aspect, characteristic, line, lineament, Mark, Ray, stroke, touch, trait), proprietate (affection, demesne, estate, hand, having, holding, ownership, peculiarity, possession, property, proprietary), da rolul principal, caracteriza (characterize, distinguish, label, phrase, write down), caracter (aspect, character, characteristic, color, colour, complexion, composition, constitution, disposition, grain, kidney, kind, letter, loathsomeness, mettle, nature, patchiness, sort, spirit, stamp, state, temper), calitate (affection, assets, attribute, character, class, grade, kind, Mark, merit, property, quality, rank, rate, sort, staple, title, virtue), articol de ziar deosebit de important, însuşire (adoption, appropriation, assimilation, attribute, peculiarity, property, qualification, trait, virtue), înfãţişa (bring, depict, describe, image, lay out, make, paint, portray, represent, show). (various references) | |
Russian | характеристика (biased exponent, character reference, characteristic, characteristics, characterization, curve, pattern, performance, records, specification, testimonial), черты, черта характера, черта лица (facial features), особенность (aroma, character, especifics, habit, particularity, peculiarity, singularity, speciality, specials, specifics, tang), набросать (draft, jot down), зарисовать, быть характерной чертой, боевик (hit man), большая статья в газете, представлять характеристика, показать на экране. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | svojstvo (capacity, characteristic, trait, virtue), prikazati u glavnoj ulozi, odlika (characteristic, distinction, excellence), oblik (fashion, figure, form, shape), istaći (accentuate, distinguish, headline, highlight, point up, post, set off, take, underlain), crta (line, lineament, strain, trait). (various references) | |
Spanish | rasgo (characteristic, dash, emotion, flourish, lineament, quirk, streak, trait, twirl, twist, vein), característica (characteristic, peculiarity, property, special feature, trait). (various references) | |
Swedish | kännetecken (attribute, badge, characteristic, criterion, earmark, indication, token), särdrag (shibboleth), anletsdrag (lineament). (various references) | |
Thai | สารคดีพิเศษ, ทำให้เด่น, ลักษณะหน้าตา, จินตนาการ (conceit, envisage, fancy, figure, imagination, imagine, see), ภาพยนตร์ (celluloid, movie). (various references) | |
Turkish | yayınlamak (emit, give forth, Herald, issue, print, produce, promulgate, publish, put forth, run, telecast, televise, transmit), yüzün bir bölümü, yüz hattı (lineament), sunuş (offering, presentation, presentment, submission, submittal), karakterize etmek (characterize, hallmark, personate, personify, qualify, signalize), belirtmek (define, deliver oneself, denote, embody, emit, enumerate, evidence, exude, import, indicate, manifest, point out, predicate, purport, remark, represent, show, sign, signify, specify, state, ventilate), başrolde oynatmak (star), asıl şey, özellik (attribute, attribution, cachet, character, characteristic, hall mark, hallmark, idiosyncrasy, particular, particularity, peculiarity, plate-mark, point, property, quality, quiddity, singularity, special feature, speciality, specialty, stamp, strain, trait), önem vermek (attach importance to, care, consider important, give weight to, look to, make a point of, note, regard, take cognizance of, value). (various references) | |
Turkmen | reje (characteristic, sign), зyzyk (line, trait). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стаття (article, clause, paper), характеризуватися, особливість (aroma, characteristic, distinction, flavour, individuality, particularity, peculiarity, speciality, specialty, tincture, trait), зображати (character, characterize, delineate, depict, describe, figure, represent). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nét đặc biệt (quality). (various references) | |
Welsh | nodwedd (character, characteristic), golygwedd (aspect). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | facura. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "feature": featured, featureless, features, featurette, featurettes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "feature": cofeature, defeature. (additional references) | |
Words containing "feature": cofeatured, cofeatures, defeatures. (additional references) | |
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"Feature" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: faiture, fatue, featre, featuret, featurret, featury, feture, feuture, fibatube, fixature, fratri, Fudauri, fueature. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "feature" (pronounced fē"kher) |
| 3 | -ē" kh er | bleacher, creature, peacher, preacher, teacher. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: afreet, feater, refute. | |
-2 letters: after, arete, eater, feuar, urate. | |
-3 letters: fare, fate, fear, feat, feet, fere, feta, fete, frae, frat, free, fret, raft, rate, reef, reft, rete, tare, tear, tree, tref, true, tufa, turf, urea. | |
-4 letters: aft, are, arf, art, ate, ear, eat, eau, eft, era, ere, eta, far, fat, fee, fer, fet, feu. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: featured, features. | |
+2 letters: cofeature, defaulter, defeature, perfusate, refutable. | |
+3 letters: beautifier, cofeatured, cofeatures, defaulters, defeatures, featurette, perfusates, unfathered. | |
+4 letters: afterburner, beautifiers, beautifuler, carefullest, fearfullest, featureless, featurettes, feudatories, forequarter, furtherance, gratefuller, housefather, irrefutable, overfatigue, prefectural, reformulate, rubefacient, suffragette, superfatted, tearfulness. | |
+5 letters: afterburners, amentiferous, artfulnesses, forequarters, furtherances, gracefullest, gratefullest, gratefulness, housefathers, overfatigued, overfatigues, preformulate, putrefactive, reformulated, reformulates, rubefacients, suffragettes, ultrarefined, understaffed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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