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Contribute (verb)
To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.
“to contribute money to a church fund”
“to contribute articles to a journal”
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Attribute (noun)
A characteristic or quality of a thing.
“His finest attribute is his kindness.”
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Attribute (noun)
A word that qualifies a noun, a qualifier.
“In the clause “My jacket is more expensive than yours”, “My” is the attribute of “jacket”.”
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Attribute (noun)
That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
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Attribute (noun)
An option or setting belonging to some object.
“This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.”
“A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten.”
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Attribute (noun)
A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
“Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used.”
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Attribute (noun)
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Attribute (noun)
A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
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Attribute (verb)
To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.
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Attribute (verb)
To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.
“This poem is attributed to Browning.”