feature
UK /ˈfiː.t͡ʃəː/ · US /ˈfi.t͡ʃɚ/ noun, verb
Forms features featuring featured
- noun (obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
- noun A component that draws attention or interest. “a water feature”
- noun (by extension, computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
- noun (media) 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.”
- noun Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
- noun 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”
- noun (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.”
- noun (engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
- verb (transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
- verb (transitive) To star, to contain.
- verb (intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.
- verb (transitive, dated) To have features resembling.
- verb (US regional) To think about, understand, or imagine.
Synonyms
attraction lineament attribute characteristic designation vein distinctiveness hallmark owndom parameter property propriety quality race trait touch whatness feature film feature article feature of speech have sport boast
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.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.
- noun The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance.
Etymology [OE. feture form, shape, feature, OF. faiture fashion, make, fr. L. factura a making, formation, fr. facere, factum, to make. See Feat, Fact, and cf. Facture.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “feature”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details