Meaning

11 senses
  1. An important or main item.

    A component that draws attention or interest.

    a water feature

    Features of this model include a long battery life and a durable case.

  2. (broadly)A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

    Feature, Besonderheit, Merkmal

    фу́нкцияfúnkcija, фи́ча f slangfíča

    фі́чаfíča, особли́вістьosoblývistʹ

  3. A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.

    He was included in a feature that was written by the EspnCricinfo department on the media.

    Feature, Feuilleton, Sonderbeitrag

    фельето́нfelʹjetón

  4. Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).

    Charakteristikum, Merkmal

    черта́ лица́čertá licá, черта́čertá

    the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin

  5. 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.

    one of the features of the landscape

  6. 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.

  7. Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.

  8. An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.

  9. The act of being featured in a piece of music, as a collaborator. See verb sense below; also feat.

  10. The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.

    Voicing is a feature of the consonants b, d, and g.

  11. (obsolete)One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.

Examples

294 sentences
  1. Her eyes are her best feature.

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  2. It must be a new feature.

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  3. What are some of the main features?

    ruКаковы некоторые из основных особенностей?

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  4. Could you explain all the safety features to me once again?

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  5. This is a nice feature.

    deDas ist ein nettes Feature.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
important or main item:
computing: beneficial capability of a piece of software:
Русский
By meaning 4
important or main item:
computing: beneficial capability of a piece of software:
long, prominent article or item in the media:
one of the physical constituents of the face:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
important or main item:
computing: beneficial capability of a piece of software:
long, prominent article or item in the media:

Origin

From Middle English feture, from Anglo-Norman feture, from Old French faiture, from Latin

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 do, put, place, set”). Doublet of facture.

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Forms

plural: features
Singularfeature
Pluralfeatures

regular

Synonyms

21 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin:lineament
  • a prominent attribute or aspect of something:characteristic
  • a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine:feature article
  • the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater:feature film
  • (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind:feature of speech

Word family

47 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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