feature

English Online Dictionary. What means feature‎? What does feature mean?

English

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 put, place, set”). Doublet of facture.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.t͡ʃɚ/
• Rhymes: -iːtʃə(ɹ)

Noun

feature (plural features)

1. (obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
2. An important or main item.
3. (media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
   1. (film) Ellipsis of feature film.
4. Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
5. (computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
6. 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.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:characteristic
7. (archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.

8. (engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
9. (statistics, machine learning) An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.

   Coordinate term: (output) parameter
10. (music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.
11. (linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.

    Hyponyms: gender, number, person, tense

Derived terms

Descendants

• → German: Feature
• → Ukrainian: фі́ча (fíča)

Translations

Verb

feature (third-person singular simple present features, present participle featuring, simple past and past participle featured)

1. (transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
2. (transitive) To star, to contain.
3. (intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.
4. (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.

5. (Western Pennsylvania) To think about, understand, or imagine.

Translations

Further reading

• “feature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Middle English

Noun

feature

1. Alternative form of feture