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attribute English

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attribute Verb

— If you attribute mathx/math to mathy/math, you say that mathx/math is the creation or result of mathy/math. He attributes his success to the love of his parents. The famous phrase is usually attributed to Winston Churchill, though some believe he never actually said it.

attribute Noun

— An attribute is a part, feature, or characteristic. A good sense of humour is an essential attribute for a doctor to have.

attribute

— verb (= impute) attribute or credit to We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare People impute great cleverness to cats — noun (= property) a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished self-confidence is not an endearing property — noun an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity — verb (= assign) decide as to where something belongs in a scheme The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class

Synonyms attribute synonyms

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attribute English » English

characteristic ascribe quality property feature impute assign trait credit character nature mark blame beneficiary symbol sign refer put performance peculiarity modifier lay instrument indirect object hallmark flag epithet emblem disposition dimension designate calibre attach allege add accredit Arg2 trait of character token thing tell tag suspect streak status start point specificity situation side sentinel

Conjugation attribute conjugation

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attribute · verb

Examples attribute examples

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Simple sentences

We attribute Edison's success to intelligence and hard work.
The capacity to produce novel utterances is an attribute of every natural language.

Movie subtitles

Among us, the greatest attribute. is loyalty.
So, I must, therefore, attribute your refusal of me to your wish of increasing my love by suspense!
His brain is his only weapon, but the mind is an attribute of the individual.
People are so quick to attribute such things to alcohol.
I have noticed before, captain, that you have shown a little disrespect. But I have been mild enough to attribute it to your foreign breeding.
Between us, I'd like to know to whom we owe this victory, which history will attribute to us.
It's too sentimental to attribute it all to Watanabe-san's dedication.
It'd the only attribute I dhare with the Almighty.
I attribute it to the mutation process.
Don't attribute feelings to him, gentlemen.
To what do I attribute this pleasure?
I attribute your astuteness to your skill with the sword.
Isn't it blasphemous to wear sumptuous clothes and to attribute it to the command of God?
They attribute curious sights to alcoholic delusions.
Dr. Mortimer, To what do you attribute the death of Sir Charles?
She has every attribute of a modern, successful woman.
To what do you attribute that?
Predicative attribute. - Of what?
That they still are in such good trim, I attribute to well-developed laziness.
But I have been mild enough to attribute it to your foreign breeding.
However, it should not surprise because you have to admit, I bury a loved one, with their belongings they were, say. speaking hyperbolically, an extension his own person. in this case the card is a labor attribute sine qua non of a worker.
Did you know that this walking corpse here preferred one to me whose only female attribute is her name in the family book?
May I ask to what you attribute this extraordinary, almost fabulous success?
Ah, we could attribute it to a too efficient security system.
To what should we attribute your so rapid success?
Should he attribute his end to the gods or else the enjoyed pleasure?
Once again from my position of vice-mayor, and then the importance I personally attribute to the ball.
So how many ghastly murders do you attribute to me as a developer?
However, officials now attribute the discrepancy to a simple clerical error.
I could accuse Heaven's injustice or exceptional atmospheric conditions but I prefer to attribute my failure to my own stupidity.
Maybe suffering is an attribute of God.
I fear Miss Angela may merely attribute Mr Glossop's abstinence to indigestion.
I must attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, in the usual manner of elegant females.
Some people attribute his behavior to post-traumatic stress from his service as a pilot in Vietnam.
And you attribute this to the calzone?

News and current affairs

Despite dramatically falling crime rates over the last ten years (which most criminologists attribute more to demography - there have simply been fewer young men of late - than incarceration), prison populations have continued to soar.
Some attribute this to the fact that India and the US are the world's two largest democracies.
Followers are more likely to attribute charisma to leaders when they feel a strong need for change, often in the context of a personal, organizational, or social crisis.
Some attribute the price drop to the US shale-energy boom.
It also noted that the IMF and World Bank overlap, so that there was no real accountability for either institution. If something went wrong, the IMF could attribute responsibility to the World Bank, and vice versa.
I do not attribute any malign or sinister purposes to the OSCE presence in Albania, unless one considers inertia malign.
But this does not make governments' political task much easier, because the benefits are diffuse: consumers paying less for airline tickets may not attribute it to deregulation.
At the same time, we should not attribute current enthusiasm for fiscal retrenchment to such contingencies.
Some scientists attribute the intensity of Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar, killing more than 30,000, to global warming.
This often made it difficult to attribute authorship, because a text might consist of a copied lecture in which the copyist's comments were inserted and then perhaps altered as the book passed to other hands.
After all, poverty is not an unchanging attribute of a fixed group; it is a condition that threatens billions of vulnerable people.
But to attribute the performance of Russian business to the efforts of the state is the same as attributing a writer's work to his editor, or even to his censor.
Indeed, his most astonishing attribute is intellectual flexibility, to say what everyone wants to hear.
But it would be facile to attribute this to the immaturity of Central European democracies.
It is not politically correct to attribute any share of very poor countries' suffering to their own decisions.
Niall Ferguson, the British historian, cites scholars who attribute Japan's imperial expansion after 1914 to a male youth bulge, and who link the rise of Islamist extremism to an Islamic youth bulge.
Three decades later, the world is in a slump, and many people attribute the global crisis to these very ideas.
It would be similarly misleading to attribute T3's success to China alone.
Such skepticism, which is a fundamental attribute of the democratic mind, may have played a role in pushing the government toward more openness in Sichuan.
While they recognize that Asia's experience has been rather different, they tend to attribute that to dissimilar capital markets.
If something went wrong, the IMF could attribute responsibility to the World Bank, and vice versa.
They are prone to attribute concerns about globalization to crass protectionist motives or ignorance, even when there are genuine ethical issues at stake.
Voters tend to get rid of governments once the incumbents have lost their most precious attribute: the benefit of the doubt.
They are prepared to give some the benefit of the doubt (by far the most important attribute any political leader can possess).
Some attribute the fall largely to declining global growth expectations.
The crimes they attribute to Putin sound like the indictment for a treason trial.

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