Boast vs Feature - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between boast and feature

is that boast is a brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself while feature is (label) one's structure or make-up; form, shape, bodily proportions.

As verbs the difference between boast and feature

is that boast is to brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself or boast can be (masonry) to dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel while feature is to ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.

boast

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) boosten, bosten, from .

Noun

(en noun)

A brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.

(squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.

Verb

(en verb)

To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.

* 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .

On no account will he or any other kind be able to boast that he's escaped the pursuit of those who can follow so detailed and comprehensive a method of enquiry.

To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.

* (John Milton)

Lest bad men should boast / Their specious deeds.

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(obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.

* Bible, Psalms xiiv. 8

In God we boast all the day long.

(squash) To play a .

(ergative) To possess something special.

Synonyms

* brag

Derived terms

* boastful * boastfully * outboast

Etymology 2

Verb

(en verb)

(masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.

(Weale)

(sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

Anagrams

* * English reporting verbs

feature

English

(wikipedia feature)

Noun

(en noun)

(label) One's structure or make-up; form, shape, bodily proportions.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.ii:

all the powres of nature, / Which she by art could vse vnto her will, / And to her seruice bind each liuing creature; / Through secret vnderstanding of their feature .

An important or main item.

(label) A long, prominent, article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.

Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).

(label) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.

(label) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.

A feature' of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other ' features at these sites may include small hearths.

(label) Characteristic forms or shapes of a part. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* featural * feature article

External links

Verb

(featur)

To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.

To star, to contain.

to appear; to make an appearance.

* {{quote-news

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