attribute
verb
• regard something as being caused by.
• "he attributed the firm's success to the efforts of the managing director"
Similar:
ascribe,
assign,
accredit,
credit,
impute,
allot,
allocate,
put down to,
set down to,
chalk up to,
lay at the door of,
hold responsible for,
pin something on,
lay something on,
place something on,
connect with,
associate with,
stick something on,
attribute
noun
• a quality or feature regarded as a characteristic or inherent part of someone or something.
• "flexibility and mobility are the key attributes of Britain's army"
Similar:
quality,
feature,
characteristic,
trait,
element,
aspect,
property,
hallmark,
mark,
distinction,
sign,
telltale sign,
sure sign,
idiosyncrasy,
peculiarity,
quirk,
• a piece of information which determines the properties of a field or tag in a database or a string of characters in a display.
• an attributive adjective or noun.
• a real property which a statistical analysis is attempting to describe.
Origin:
late 15th century: the noun from Old French attribut ; the verb from Latin attribut- ‘allotted’: both from the verb attribuere, from ad- ‘to’ + tribuere ‘assign’.
