attribute

[əˈtrɪbjuːt]

Definition:
1. A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.
2. An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity.
3. Attribute or credit to.
4. Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme.

Use 'attribute' in a sentence:

1. Add the attribute to collection.
2. Kindness is one of his best attributes.
3. Extrapolating from his American findings, he reckons about 80% of these deaths might be attributed to smoking.
4. One of the main attributes of this plastic is its ability to bend without breaking.
5. We can, perhaps, attribute mediocre results to an inadequate placebo effect.
6. Jake has all the attributes of a first-class athlete.
7. Attribute values must be quoted.
8. Another common way is using signal attribute.
9. He attributed the party's lack of success to an overemphasis on ideology and ideas.
10. Patience is an attribute of a good teacher.
11. Although South Africa has many of the attributes of the first world — some good infrastructure, millions of rich people — it is still not part of that world.
12. Attribute Reduction Method in Information System Based on Relation Matrix.
13. More than 80% of those cases can be attributed to contact with contaminated water and a lack of proper sanitation.
14. Analysts attribute the decline to such factors as advances in digital databases and communication systems.
15. Visiting cards used to be an indispensable attribute of the etiquette and the rules of their use were as sophisticated as those of cutlery.
16. His cunning and guile were not attributes I would ever underestimate.
17. Don't attribute all your mistakes to objective causes.
18. He has every attribute you could want and could play for any team.
19. Another attribute is user priority.
20. In one experiment, people who reported feeling isolated were more likely than others to attribute consciousness to various gadgets.
21. He liked to attribute his longevity to "cigarettes, whiskey and wild, wild women".
22. The crown is an attribute of kingship.
23. He attributes his success to good luck.
24. I attribute much of my success there to having learned, through the study of mathematics, and, in particular, theorems, how to analyze complicated principles.
25. Burberry's executives are trying hard to attribute their practice of destroying old products to miscalculated production.
26. I'd suggest an attribute.
27. Some simplistically attribute the decline in our public education system to the drain of skilled students by private schools, but far more significant events were at work.
28. They attributed the success of their invention to Engineer Huang.
29. This, and the remaining frescoes, are not attributed to Giotto.
30. Optimization of attribute references.
31. Select an existing CMP attribute.
32. The most distinctive attribute of this tradition is the mechanistic, materialistic conception of humanity.
33. She attributes her success to hard work and a little luck.
34. The coach attributed the team's victory to training and practice.
35. The committee refused to attribute blame without further information.
36. This attribute is mandatory.
37. They will attribute positive results to the outside help or even luck.
38. Any string value can be placed in the custom attribute on the asset; however, the value is for searching and view-only purposes in the RAM clients.
39. Cruelty is a normal attribute of human behaviour.
40. Few investigators would attribute such diverse effects to a single cause.
41. Although many have tried., it does Seem improbable that the painting's unique status can be attributed entirely to the quality of its brushstrokes.
42. The intrinsic quality of a work of art is starting to seem like its least important attribute.
43. Each level should have exactly one caption attribute.
44. People were beginning to attribute superhuman qualities to him.
45. That is mistakenly attributed to a nonexistent mysterious disease.
46. Many scientists now attribute much of the warming of early Earth to oxygen-intolerant microbes—methanogens—that produce the greenhouse gas methane.
47. Another important attribute is the unique boiling point of helium, which is lower than that of any other element.
48. The obesity epidemic began in the 1980s, and many people attribute it to increased portion sizes and inactivity, but that can't be everything.
49. We have already seen the sum total of his attributes.
50. Childhood had less freedom and joy than we sentimentally attribute to it.
51. Patience is one of the most important attributes in a teacher.
52. She attributed her flawless complexion to the moisturiser she used.
53. Both groups share two attributes normally associated with vertebrates.
54. Women tend to attribute their success to external causes such as luck.
55. Now, she attributes much of her understanding of college to that ： "But once I got to campus, it was a completely different ball game that no one really prepared me for."