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referred | attribute |

As a verb referred

is (refer).

As a noun attribute is

.

referred

English

Verb

(head)
  • (refer)

    • refer

    English

    Verb

    (referr)
  • To direct the attention of.
    • The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.
  • To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
    • He referred the matter to the principal.
    to refer a patient to a psychiatrist
  • To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.
    • He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
  • (rfex) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
  • # (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence
  • #:

    • Synonyms

    * delegate * direct

    Derived terms

    * refer to * refer someone to

    Anagrams

    * English palindromes ----

    attribute

    English

    (wikipedia attribute)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A characteristic or quality of a thing.
    • His finest attribute is his kindness.
  • (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.
    • In the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket".
  • (computing) The applicable option selection; a variable or a value.
    • This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.
  • (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
  • (computing, programming) A semantic item with which a method, etc. may be decorated.
    • There are some more implementations which use C
  • attribute s to define custom attributes specific to the AOP engine. Then the classes that need to be intercepted will be decorated with these custom attributes.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    () * attributeness * relational attribute

    Related terms

    () * attributive

    Verb

    (attribut)
  • To ascribe (something) (to) a given cause, reason etc.
  • * Archbishop Tillotson
    • We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 278:
    • H?kim's atypical actions should not be attributed to Islam as much as to insanity, which eventually led him to proclaim himself as Allah, whereupon he was murdered by outraged fellow Muslims.
  • To associate ownership or authorship of (something) (to) someone.
    • This poem is attributed to Browning.

    Derived terms

    () * attributable * attribution

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