Attribute vs Pattern - What's the difference?
attribute | pattern |
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.
Model, example.
# Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline.
#* 1923 , ‘President Wilson’, Time , 18 Jun 1923:
# Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar.
#* 1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy , I.16:
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# A representative example.
# (US) The material needed to make a piece of clothing.
# (textiles) The paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling.
# (metalworking, dated) A full-sized model around which a mould of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mould without damage.
# (computing) A text string containing wildcards, used for matching.
Decorative arrangement.
# A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements.
#* 2003 , Valentino, ‘Is there a future in fashion's past?’, Time , 5 Feb 2003:
# A naturally-occurring or random arrangement of shapes, colours etc. which have a regular or decorative effect.
#* 2011 , Rachel Cooke, The Observer , 19 Jun 2011:
# The given spread, range etc. of shot fired from a gun.
# A particular sequence of events, facts etc. which can be understood, used to predict the future, or seen to have a mathematical, geometric, statistical etc. relationship.
#* 1980 , ‘Shifting Targets’, Time , 6 Oct 1980:
#* 2003 , Kate Hudson, The Guardian , 14 Aug 2003:
# (linguistics) An intelligible arrangement in a given area of language.
to apply a pattern
To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
* Sir T. Herbert
to follow an example
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to fit into a pattern
To serve as an example for.
As nouns the difference between attribute and pattern
is that attribute is while pattern is model, example.As a verb pattern is
to apply a pattern.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 ----pattern
English
(wikipedia pattern)Noun
(en noun)- There is no reason why all colleges and universities should be cut to the same pattern .
- The Platonic Socrates was a pattern to subsequent philosophers for many ages.
- There were no files matching the pattern
*.txt.
- On my way to work the other day, I stopped at a church in Rome and saw a painting of the Madonna. The subtle pattern of blues and golds in the embroidery of her dress was so amazing that I used it to design a new evening dress for my haute couture.
- He lifted the entire joint or fowl up into the air, speared on a carving fork, and sliced pieces off it so that they fell on the plate below in perfectly organised patterns .
- The three killings pointed to an ugly new shift in the enduring pattern of violence in Northern Ireland: the mostly Protestant Ulster police, or those suspected of affiliation with them, have become more prominent targets for the I.R.A. than the British troops.
- Look again at how the US and its allies behaved then, and the pattern is unmistakable.
Synonyms
* original (1) * stencil (1) * tessellation (2) * category (3) * cycle (4) * similarity (5) * See alsoAntonyms
* antipatternDerived terms
* design patternVerb
(en verb)- [A temple] patterned from that which Adam reared in Paradise.