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Meaning feature meaning

What does feature mean?
Definitions in simple English

feature Noun

— A feature is a special or noticeable part of something. One unusual feature of the town is the river in the middle of mainstreet. — A feature is a useful part or function of a product. In computers, a CD drive used to be a special feature. Now you can't buy a computer without one. — A feature is a special newspaper or magazine article or radio or television program that is not published regularly. The Star is running a special feature about homelessness. — A feature is a movie playing at a cinema. Today's feature will appear right after these commercials.

feature Verb

— If you feature something, you have it as a noticeable and positive part. This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France. Jazz and Blues feature prominently in the magazine. — If you feature something, you consider (or imagine) it. I cannot feature that happening.

feature

— noun (= characteristic) a prominent attribute or aspect of something the map showed roads and other features generosity is one of his best characteristics — noun (= lineament) the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin an expression of pleasure crossed his features his lineaments were very regular — verb (= have) have as a feature This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France — verb (= sport) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner she was sporting a new hat — noun the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater the feature tonight is 'Casablanca' — noun a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine they ran a feature on retirement planning — noun an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles — noun (= feature of speech) (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind

Synonyms feature synonyms

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feature English » English

characteristic property trait quality attribute peculiarity appearance lineament character aspect shape look element streak report point line feature article countenance stroke star sport specificity special edition show part highlight have function form feature of speech feature film factor face distinctive feature detail component boast visage utility use unique feature typify triumph thing tender technicals tang tag symptom

Topics feature topics

What do people use feature to talk about?
Universe, creation World

Land
Person Body

Head
Social behavior Social activity

Drama
States Quantity Whole, complete

Part
States

Quality

Conjugation feature conjugation

How do you conjugate feature?

feature · verb

Examples feature examples

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Simple sentences

As wars and murders show, bestiality is a typical feature of the human race.
Tom prefers feature films to series.
A feature of this new car is that if a drunk person is driving, the engine won't start.
It's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature.
Werner Herzog makes outstanding documentaries and feature films.
Tom's distinguishing feature is the way he speaks through his nose.
Language textbooks often feature only good people.
The principal feature of the conference is the buffet.
His movies often feature strong female characters.
We offer a purely Catholic Dating for Catholic Singles, feature-rich. So is your Catholic Dating.
The main feature of this scheme is still ambiguous.
The most important feature of all games is that they are governed by rules.
The truly remarkable feature of sound production by birds is that the two sides of the syrinx can act independently.
Feathers are a distinguishing feature of birds.
This feature is deprecated. We advise you not to use it.
It's a feature, not a bug.
Due to technical reasons, the search feature is currently disabled.

Movie subtitles

The next issue of Woman's Monthly is going to have a feature story on wedding gowns.
This is a feature.
Here's a little feature.
Emil, I got a good feature on the manhunt.
The most wonderful feature of these, you don't have to launder them.
That Elizabeth Lane feature, the housewife one runs in Home and Garden?
Yes, Mrs. Lane's feature is.
If you get fired, you'll rob the public of the finest human-interest feature in the magazine field.
And the tie-up with the Elizabeth Lane feature will put it over.
Millions of women in these United States pattern their daily lives after that feature.
But, Mr. Yardley, we were only trying to protect the feature for you.
The home-planning feature in Smart Housekeeping.
The Perfume and Cosmetics Department is now our outstanding feature.
Maybe I better go back and see another double feature.
The organ will play a solo immediately after the feature picture.
A 1923 feature picture directed by Roland West called The Unknown Purple has an inventor, played by Henry B Walthall, discovering a purple light that renders the user invisible.
Universal got a lot of mileage out of this scene, as it was recycled for other features and serials, one example being the 1942 feature Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror, with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.
You'll be a double feature.
Lloyds discovered that these wrecks had one curious feature in common.
Here's a little feature. An accident about a tear bomb.
There's a double feature in the village tonight.
We will make a large number of training films, and for the army we are arranging to supply our overseas forces with all of our best feature pictures, many before they are even released here.
The feature film Lisinski was made in 1944 on a nytrat film.
That's the outstanding feature of this case whether you know it or not.
Most intriguing feature.
Hey, Fat Boy. this is the beginning of the feature.
Feature goes on in 15 minutes.
The feature's started.
What time does that feature-picture go on?
Here's a little feature though.
Emil, I got a good feature for you on the manhunt.
What time is the third feature over?

News and current affairs

The feature of the proposed pact that elicits the most excitement - its focus on regulatory barriers like mandatory product standards - should actually incite the greatest concern.
Kaufman's approach - with speeches on the Senate floor as a central feature - seemed irrelevant or even quaint to critics even a few weeks ago.
Sovereign debt has been a major feature of the international financial system for centuries.
The virus is shaped so that it can drill into a particular feature of that cell and inject parts of itself inside, confusing the cell into making more viruses and destroying itself in the process.
One feature of Italy's turbulent politics remains consistent: the control exercised by entrenched interests, and the dominance of a bloated and inefficient bureaucracy.
A remarkable feature of this process of integration so far is that it has preserved important dimensions of accountability and control.
In recent decades, rising incomes have catalyzed a major shift in people's eating habits, with meat, in particular, becoming an increasingly important feature of people's diets.
There may be no single common feature, but all are readily identified as members of the same family.
The rule of law is the strongest feature of Turkey today.
True, the assembly line, a brain-numbing experience, was a feature of capitalism from the pin factor that Adam Smith wrote about in 1776 until Henry Ford's giant plants in the 1920's.
The first feature of the liberal order is that democracies must not tolerate those who set out to destroy democracy.
If not all the EU's members are ready to take this path, flexible solutions of the sort that have been a feature of European compromise in the past may be needed.
The parade of gaffes and subsequent groveling apologies has become a regular feature of public life.
This island of central planning in the midst of the market economy was a strange and puzzling feature - all the more so because so few remarked how strange it was.
The most important and potentially sustaining feature of a new democracy lies in its effort to commit itself to observing international human-rights standards.
The acceptance of violence without limit will be the most devastating feature of Arafat's legacy.
Qarantina is one of only four feature films completed in Iraq in the past 12 years.
MILAN - The global economy's most striking feature nowadays is the magnitude and interconnectedness of the macro risks that it faces.
This is perhaps the most enduring feature of American power.
Science is the only civic institution with a built-in long-term time horizon - a feature that builds confidence in a fragile future.
Tension between widespread private ownership of firms and pervasive public ownership of assets is another specific feature of China's economic system that looks similarly creaky.
This would also help address the endemic corruption that is also a specific feature of the Chinese economic system.
The strident and damaging dogmatism of fundamentalists of every stripe has a common feature: a truculent sense of grievance, rooted in fear and resentment of modernity.
No Islamic parties hold seats in European parliaments; few leading Muslim figures feature in Europe's major centers of cultural and political power; and European Union institutions are practically bereft of Arabs and Muslims.
As China's leaders continue to push for more control over Hong Kong, spinal shivers are likely to become an increasingly common feature of life there.
Nor did climate change feature prominently in his argument, although many experts suggest that this may be the cause of the droughts and floods that have ruined wheat harvests in Australia and vegetable oil production in Indonesia and Malaysia.
These rants display a second major feature of the Chinese cult of guochi : the tendency to blame a weak, feckless Chinese government for not standing up to predatory foreigners.

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