feature.
One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
Meaning & usage
One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
An important or main item. A component that draws attention or interest.
a water feature
Features of this model include a long battery life and a durable case.
An important or main item. A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
An important or main item. A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
He was included in a feature that was written by the EspnCricinfo department on the media.
An important or main item. Ellipsis of feature film.
Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
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.
one of the features of the landscape
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.
Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
The act of being featured in a piece of music, as a collaborator. See verb sense below; also feat.
The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
Voicing is a feature of the consonants b, d, and g.
Where this word comes from
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.
To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
To star, to contain.
To appear, to make an appearance.
To have features resembling.
To think about, understand, or imagine.
Where this word comes from
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.
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