Countenance vs Features - What's the difference?

Countenance is a synonym of features.

As nouns the difference between countenance and features

is that countenance is appearance, especially the features and expression of the face while features is .

As verbs the difference between countenance and features

is that countenance is to tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something while features is (feature).

countenance

English

Alternative forms

* countenaunce (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face.

* , Genesis 4:5

But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

, passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.}}

Favour; support; encouragement.

* (Bible), (Psalms) xxi. 6

Thou hast made himglad with thy countenance .

* (Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)

This is the magistrate's peculiar province, to give countenance to piety and virtue, and to rebuke vice.

(label) Superficial appearance; show; pretense.

* (Roger Ascham) (1515-1568)

The election being done, he made countenance of great discontent thereat.

Synonyms

* See also

Verb

(countenanc)

To tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.

''The cruel punishment was countenanced by the government, although it was not officially legal.

* 1925 , Franz Kafka, The Trial'', ''Vintage Books (London) , pg. 99:

For the Defence was not actually countenanced by the Law, but only tolerated, and there were differences of opinion even on that point, whether the Law could be interpreted to admit such tolerances at all.

Synonyms

* approve, sanction, support, tolerate

References

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features

English

Verb

(head)

(feature)

Noun

(head)

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

, year=2009 , date=November 27 , author= , title=Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has 'best guitar riff' , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love, Deep Purple's Smoke On The Water and Layla by Derek and the Dominos also featured in the top five. }}