attributes

/AE1 T R AH0 B Y UW0 T S/
noun
  1. 1

    A characteristic or quality of a thing.

    โ€œHis finest attribute is his kindness.โ€

  2. 2

    (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun, a qualifier.

    โ€œIn the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket".โ€

  3. 3

    That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.

  4. 4

    An option or setting belonging to some object.

    โ€œA file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten.โ€

  5. 5

    A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.

    โ€œProperties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used.โ€

  6. 6

    A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.

verb
  1. 1

    To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.

  2. 2

    To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.

    โ€œThis poem is attributed to Browning.โ€

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/attribute, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/attributes