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1.
a prominent or conspicuous part or characteristic: Tall buildings were a new feature on the skyline.
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something offered as a special attraction: This model has several added features.
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Also called feature film. the main motion picture in a movie program: What time is the feature?
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any part of the face, as the nose, chin, or eyes: prominent features.
5.
EXPANDfeatures, the face; countenance: to compose one's features for the photographers.
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the form or cast of the face: delicate of feature.
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a column, cartoon, etc., appearing regularly in a newspaper or magazine.
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COLLAPSEArchaic. make, form, or shape.
verb (used with object)
10.
to be a feature or distinctive mark of: It was industrial expansion that featured the last century.
11.
to make a feature of; give prominence to: to feature a story or picture in a newspaper.
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to delineate the main characteristics of; depict; outline.
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Informal. to conceive of; imagine; fancy: He couldn't quite feature himself as a bank president.
14.
Older Use. to resemble in features; favor.
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verb (used without object)
15.
to play a major part.
Origin:
1350–1400; 1905–10 for def. 3; Middle English feture < Anglo-French, Middle French faiture < Latin factūra a making. See fact, -ure
1350–1400; 1905–10 for def. 3; Middle English feture < Anglo-French, Middle French faiture < Latin factūra a making. See fact, -ure
Related forms
trans·fea·ture, verb (used with object), -tured, -tur·ing.
un·der·fea·ture, noun
Synonyms
1. Feature, characteristic, peculiarity refer to a distinctive trait of an individual or of a class. Feature suggests an outstanding or marked property that attracts attention: Complete harmony was a feature of the convention. Characteristic means a distinguishing mark or quality (or one of such) always associated in one's mind with a particular person or thing: Defiance is one of his characteristics. Peculiarity means that distinct or unusual characteristic that marks off an individual in the class to which he, she, or it belongs: A blue-black tongue is a peculiarity of the chow chow.
1. Feature, characteristic, peculiarity refer to a distinctive trait of an individual or of a class. Feature suggests an outstanding or marked property that attracts attention: Complete harmony was a feature of the convention. Characteristic means a distinguishing mark or quality (or one of such) always associated in one's mind with a particular person or thing: Defiance is one of his characteristics. Peculiarity means that distinct or unusual characteristic that marks off an individual in the class to which he, she, or it belongs: A blue-black tongue is a peculiarity of the chow chow.
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feature
early 14c., from Anglo-Fr. feture, from O.Fr. faiture "fashion, shape, form," from L. factura "a formation, a working," from pp. stem of facere "make, do, perform" (see factitious). Sense of "facial characteristic" is mid-14c.; that of "any distinctive part" first recorded
EXPAND1690s. The verb sense of "make special display or attraction of" is 1888. Related: Featured; features; featuring.
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