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feature
[ fee-cher ]
noun
- a prominent or conspicuous part or characteristic:
Tall buildings were a new feature on the skyline.
- something offered as a special attraction:
This model has several added features.
- Also called feature film. the main motion picture in a movie program:
What time is the feature?
- any part of the face, as the nose, chin, or eyes:
prominent features.
- features, the face; countenance:
to compose one's features for the photographers.
- the form or cast of the face:
delicate of feature.
- a column, cartoon, etc., appearing regularly in a newspaper or magazine.
- Archaic. make, form, or shape.
verb (used with object)
- to be a feature or distinctive mark of:
It was industrial expansion that featured the last century.
- to make a feature of; give prominence to:
to feature a story or picture in a newspaper.
- to delineate the main characteristics of; depict; outline.
- Informal. to conceive of; imagine; fancy:
He couldn't quite feature himself as a bank president.
- Older Use. to resemble in features; favor.
verb (used without object)
- to play a major part.
feature
/ ˈfiːtʃə /
noun
- any one of the parts of the face, such as the nose, chin, or mouth
- a prominent or distinctive part or aspect, as of a landscape, building, book, etc
- the principal film in a programme at a cinema
- an item or article appearing regularly in a newspaper, magazine, etc
a gardening feature
- Also calledfeature story a prominent story in a newspaper, etc
a feature on prison reform
- a programme given special prominence on radio or television as indicated by attendant publicity
- an article offered for sale as a special attraction, as in a large retail establishment
- archaic.general form or make-up
- linguistics a quality of a linguistic unit at some level of description
semantic feature
grammatical feature
verb
- tr to have as a feature or make a feature of
- to give prominence to (an actor, famous event, etc) in a film or (of an actor, etc) to have prominence in a film
- informal.tr to imagine; consider
I can't feature that happening
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Other Words From
- trans·fea·ture verb (used with object) transfeatured transfeaturing
- un·der·fea·ture noun
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Word History and Origins
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Origin of feature1
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Example Sentences
Grindr introduced the feature themselves in October the same year and called it ‘tribes.’
Jourdan Dunn is the first sole black woman to feature on a British ‘Vogue’ cover in 12 years.
Bad weather is a feature of hundreds of flights across the world every day.
Common sense is not a just a normative judgment about wisdom, but a structural feature of any functioning organization.
The brand logo turned out to feature a graceful archer on horseback, in a Tatar national costume, poised to shoot his arrow.
This is a feature by means of which it is always possible to distinguish the Great Horsetail from any other species.
Each is surrounded by a gelatinous capsule, which is its distinctive feature (Fig. 9).
He seemed to know right where to look, which was another feature of the play that I didn't sabe at the time.
In dramatic interpretation the voice is a much more significant feature relatively than is the detail of gesture in pantomime.
My coup-d'œil assured me that it was practicable to give to this feature the character of a projecting under-jaw.
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