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Status vs Attribute - What's the difference?

status | attribute |

As nouns the difference between status and attribute

is that status is a person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others while attribute is a characteristic or quality of a thing.

As a verb attribute is

to ascribe (something) {{term|to}} a given cause, reason etc.

status

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
  • Prestige or high standing.
  • * 1957 , Gladys Sellew and Paul Hanly Furfey, Sociology and Its Use in Nursing Service , Saunders, page 81
    • The king has status' in his kingdom, and the pauper has ' status within his immediate group of peers.
  • A situation or state of affairs.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-03-15, volume=410, issue=8878, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Turn it off , passage=If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast's status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.}}
  • (label) The legal condition of a person or thing.
  • # The state (of a Canadian Indian) of being registered under the .
  • He is a status Indian.
  • (label) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.

    • Derived terms

    * status quo * status symbol

    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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