Attribute vs Attest - What's the difference?
attribute | attest |
A characteristic or quality of a thing.
(grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.
(computing) The applicable option selection; a variable or a value.
(logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
(computing, programming) A semantic item with which a method, etc. may be decorated.
To ascribe (something) (to) a given cause, reason etc.
* Archbishop Tillotson
* Shakespeare
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 278:
To associate ownership or authorship of (something) (to) someone.
To affirm to be correct, true, or genuine.
* Addison
* 1599 — Shakespeare, iii 1'' (Act ii in ''First Folio edition)
To certify by signature or oath
To certify in an official capacity.
To supply or be evidence of
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* 1599 — Shakespeare, Prologue'' (''First Folio edition)
To put under oath.
To call to witness; to invoke.
* Dryden
As a noun attribute
is .As a verb attest is
to affirm to be correct, true, or genuine.attribute
English
(wikipedia attribute)Noun
(en noun)- His finest attribute is his kindness.
- In the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket".
- This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.
- There are some more implementations which use C
- attribute s to define custom attributes specific to the AOP engine. Then the classes that need to be intercepted will be decorated with these custom attributes.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
() * attributeness * relational attributeVerb
(attribut)- We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.
- The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer.
- H?kim's atypical actions should not be attributed to Islam as much as to insanity, which eventually led him to proclaim himself as Allah, whereupon he was murdered by outraged fellow Muslims.
- This poem is attributed to Browning.
Derived terms
() * attributable * attributionExternal links
* * English heteronyms ----attest
English
Verb
(en verb)- When will the appraiser attest the date of the painting?
- facts attested by particular pagan authors
- Dishonour not your Mothers: now attest that those whom you call'd Fathers, did beget you.
- You must attest your will in order for it to be valid.
- Her fine work attested her ability.
- The supplementary bibliography (in Vol. VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort.
- O pardon : since a crooked Figure may / Attest in little place a Million, / And let us, Cyphers to this great Accompt, / On your imaginarie Forces worke.
- The sacred streams which Heaven's imperial state / Attests in oaths, and fears to violate.