Attribute vs Premodifier - What's the difference?
attribute | premodifier |
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.
As nouns the difference between attribute and premodifier
is that attribute is while premodifier is (grammar) a modifier placed before the head of the phrase.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.