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Attribute vs Predicative - What's the difference?

attribute | predicative |

As nouns the difference between attribute and predicative

is that attribute is while predicative is (grammar) an element of the predicate of a sentence which supplements the subject or object by means of the verb predicatives may be nominal or adjectival.

As an adjective predicative is

(grammar|of an adjectival or nominal) used after a verb, as a predicate;.

attribute

English

(wikipedia attribute)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A characteristic or quality of a thing.
    • His finest attribute is his kindness.
  • (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.
    • In the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket".
  • (computing) The applicable option selection; a variable or a value.
    • This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.
  • (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.
    • 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 also

    Derived terms

    () * attributeness * relational attribute

    Related terms

    () * attributive

    Verb

    (attribut)
  • To ascribe (something) (to) a given cause, reason etc.
  • * Archbishop Tillotson
    • We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 278:
    • 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.
  • To associate ownership or authorship of (something) (to) someone.
    • This poem is attributed to Browning.

    Derived terms

    () * attributable * attribution

    External links

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    predicative

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (dated)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (grammar, of an adjectival or nominal) Used after a verb, as a predicate;
    • In the sentence, ‘This house is big’, ‘big’ is predicative , whereas in ‘This is a big house’, it is attributive.

    Antonyms

    * attributive

    Derived terms

    * predicatively * predicative adjective

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) An element of the predicate of a sentence which supplements the subject or object by means of the verb. Predicatives may be nominal or adjectival.
    • ; Examples * He seems nice.''''' (adjectival ' predicative of the subject) * Bob is a postman'''.'' (nominal ' predicative of the subject) * We painted the door white'''.'' (adjectival ' predicative of the object) * They elected him president'''.'' (nominal ' predicative of the object)