Featured vs Characteristic - What's the difference?
featured | characteristic |
displayed with special treatment
(in combination) Having features of a particular kind.
Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
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, title= a distinguishable feature of a person or thing
(mathematics) the integer part of a logarithm
(nautical) the distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc)
(algebra, field theory) The minimum number of times that the unit of a field must be added unto itself in order to yield that field's zero, or, if that minimum natural number does not exist, then (the integer) zero.
As adjectives the difference between featured and characteristic
is that featured is displayed with special treatment while characteristic is being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.As a verb featured
is past participle of lang=en.As a noun characteristic is
a distinguishable feature of a person or thing.featured
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This month's featured products are on the first page of the catalogue.
- the broad-featured son of a farmer
Verb
(head)Synonyms
* depicted * displayedcharacteristic
English
(wikipedia characteristic)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
Synonyms
* distinctive * exclusive * idiosyncratic * indicative * representative * signature * specific * typicalAntonyms
* uncharacteristic * untypicalDerived terms
* characteristic function * characteristicnessNoun
(en noun)- A field's characteristic, if non-zero, must be a prime number.