feature

Meaning

Verb

1. To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
2. To star, to contain.
3. To appear, to make an appearance.
4. To have features resembling.
5. To think about, understand, or imagine.

Noun

1. (obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
2. An important or main item.
3. A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
4. A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
5. Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
6. A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
7. 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.
8. Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
9. Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
10. An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
11. The act of being featured in a piece of music.
12. The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.

Synonyms

characteristic

property

trait

quality

attribute

appearance

peculiarity

lineament

character

aspect

look

element

shape

line

point

feature article

countenance

streak

report

distinctive feature

special edition

feature film

specificity

star

⭐

form

function

face

boast

have

highlight

sport

stroke

detail

part

factor

feature of speech

show

component

findings

fitness

fitting

fittingness

go

grade

hallmark

idiosyncrasy

importance

indicate

indication

inhere

inhere in

intro

introduction

involve

job

jut out

looks

magnitude

make

mark

mountings

mug

nature

note

offer

outline

overhang

partial

particularity

pecularity

picture

piece

portray

presentation

proportions

proposal

proposition

propriety

protrude

qualify

quirk

rank

read

📖

rendition

representation

resemblance

sections

serve

set out

side

sign

sound

🔉

spare part

specialism

structure

suitability

suitableness

swagger

symptom

tag

tang

tender

thing

triumph

😤

typify

use

utility

visage

special quality

personal colour

special feature

technicals

advocacy

arts section

letters to the editor

star in

particular/distinctive feature

unique feature

class member

meetness

good

👍

attibute

accessory

adaptedness

advance

appear

aptness

article

beetle

🪲

belong

bid

bidding

brag

calibre

capacity

characterize

circumstance

column

constituent

context

contour

convenience

demonstrate

describe

dimension

display

distinction

documentary

editorial

emerge

exhibit

expressive means

facet

facial feature

facility

faculty

fashion

favour

figure

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfiː.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English feture, from Anglo-Norman feture, from Old French faiture, from Latin factūra, from Latin factus, from Latin faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Doublet of facture.

Sentences

In recent years , Jones has ventured into feature films .

The surface of this feature has low ridges and patches of level terrain .