Feature vs Peculiar - What's the difference?
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(label) One's structure or make-up; form, shape, bodily proportions.
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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.
(label) Characteristic forms or shapes of a part. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
To star, to contain.
to appear; to make an appearance.
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Out of the ordinary; odd; curious; unusual.
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Common or usual for a certain place or circumstance; specific or particular.
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(dated) One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not shared or possessed by others.
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(dated) Particular; individual; special; appropriate.
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That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.
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(UK, canon law) A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary.
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As nouns the difference between feature and peculiar
is that feature is one's structure or make-up; form, shape, bodily proportions while peculiar is that which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.As a verb feature
is to ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.As an adjective peculiar is
out of the ordinary; odd; curious; unusual.feature
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(wikipedia feature)Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
- 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.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* featural * feature articleExternal links
*Verb
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peculiar
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The sky had a peculiar appearance before the storm.
- It would be rather peculiar to see a kangaroo hopping down a city street.
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- I saw nothing peculiar in his conduct, and thought that his arrangement of the ballot box was perfect.
- "Wasn't it peculiar ," I heard mother say, "How he wouldn't talk about himself?"
- "Peculiar ?" said father. "Well, yes, in a way."
- "Everything about him is peculiar ." Mother sounded as if she was stirred up and interested. "I never saw a man quite like him before."
- Kangaroos are peculiar to Australia.
- This philosopher found his ideas especially in all that is practical,[29] that is, which rests upon freedom, which in its turn ranks under cognitions that are the peculiar product of reason.
- But of late years extensive Tertiary deposits of Miocene age have been discovered, showing that it is not a mere congeries of volcanoes; it [Iceland] is connected with the British Islands and with Greenland by seas less than 500 fathoms deep; and it possesses a few mammalia, one of which is peculiar', and at least three ' peculiar species of birds.
- And purify unto himself a peculiar people.
- hymns that Christianity hath peculiar unto itself
- while each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat
- My fate is Juno's most peculiar care.
Synonyms
* (out of the ordinary) strange, uncommon, unusual * (common or usual in a particular place or circumstance) specificAntonyms
* (out of the ordinary) common, usual * (common or usual in a particular place or circumstance) common, general, universalDerived terms
* peculiarity * peculiarly * peculiarnessSee also
* (wikipedia "peculiar")Noun
(en noun)- Revenge is the peculiar of Heaven.
