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feature

Pronunciation: /ˈfiː.t͡ʃəː/

The English word “feature” has 16 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
  2. A component that draws attention or interest.
  3. A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
  4. A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
  5. Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
  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.
  7. Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
  8. Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
  9. An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
  10. The act of being featured in a piece of music, as a collaborator. See verb sense below; also feat.
  11. The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.

verb

  1. To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
  2. To star, to contain.
  3. To appear, to make an appearance.
  4. To have features resembling.
  5. To think about, understand, or imagine.

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.

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