[
US
/ˈætɹəbˌjut, əˈtɹɪbˌjut/
]
VERB
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decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class -
attribute or credit to
People impute great cleverness to cats
We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare
NOUN
- an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity
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a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished
self-confidence is not an endearing property
How To Use attribute In A Sentence
- It is a system that is alive, whether or not it possesses all the attributes needed for an organism.
- The geography was utterly alien to Patrick, although his unfamiliarity with the picture could have been attributed to the gaps.
- Thereby, one-dimensional or multidimensional attribute of call events is displayed simultaneously through the invention.
- The slump in prices was largely attributed to inferior quality tea being produced by various India gardens.
- Real will is an attribute of consciousness, not of the sleep in which most people pass their waking lives.
- While pointing out some defects of classical logic[Sentencedict], the paper attributes them to substantial implication being directly applied to inference.
- Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post – September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power. 'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
- Previous workers have attributed these differences to changes in rheology, i.e. brittle faulting in sandstones v. more ductile folding and faulting in dolostones.
- Experts attribute the behaviour to 'musth' (a state of heightened testosterone-fuelled aggression in bull elephants). The Times of India
- Archaeologists attribute the ruin to a flourishing prehistoric kingdom.