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Feature vs Guise - What's the difference?

feature | guise |

As verbs the difference between feature and guise

is that feature is to ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context while guise is .

As a noun feature

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

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.
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  • 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.
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  • (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

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    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. }}

    guise

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) guise, gise, gyse, from (etyl) guisse, guise, . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (.)
  • * 1924 , Aristotle. Metaphysics . Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 5.
    • dialecticians and sophists assume the same guise as the philosopher
  • External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
  • Misleading appearance; cover, cloak.
    • Under the guise of patriotism
  • * 2013 , Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems''' (in ''The Guardian , 13 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/13/russell-brand-gq-awards-hugo-boss]
    • Ought we be concerned that our rights to protest are being continually eroded under the guise of enhancing our safety?
    Synonyms
    * (customary way of acting) behavior, manner, mien, practice * (external appearance) appearance, look
    Related terms
    * disguise

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (head)
  • (Internet slang)
    • Sup guise ? — What's up, guys?
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