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Feature   /fˈitʃər/   Listen
Feature

noun
1.
A prominent attribute or aspect of something.  Synonym: characteristic.  "Generosity is one of his best characteristics"
2.
The characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin.  Synonym: lineament.  "His lineaments were very regular"
3.
The principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater.  Synonym: feature film.
4.
A special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine.  Synonym: feature article.
5.
(linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind.  Synonym: feature of speech.
6.
An article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles.
verb
1.
Have as a feature.  Synonym: have.
2.
Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner.  Synonyms: boast, sport.



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"Feature" Quotes from Famous Books



... to stay with himself and wife, who were the only occupants of a good house, and all was pleasant. But notwithstanding all the comfort in which I was placed, I grew lonesome, for the enforced idleness, on account of the stormy weather, was a new feature in my life, and ...
— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly

... feature was the fact that the clothing of the remains showed that not only was he a white man, but also that he was not a hunter or frontier character, such as were about the only ones found in that section of the country. The coat, vest, and trousers were of fine dark cloth, and ...
— In the Pecos Country • Edward Sylvester Ellis (AKA Lieutenant R.H. Jayne)

... But the traitor does not perish unavenged. For the anatomy of his frame has been cunningly contrived so as in burning to discharge volleys of squibs into his assailants; and the wounds and burns with which their piety is rewarded form a feature of the morning's entertainment. The English Jockey Club in Mexico used to improve on this popular pastime by suspending huge figures of Judas, stuffed with copper coins, from ropes in front of their clubhouse. ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer

... which seemed little frequented, was eight or nine feet wide, unpaved, and full of ruts. The high blank wall of a garden rose on one side of it, on the other the still higher wall of a house; and both were completely devoid of windows, a feature which I recognised with the utmost dismay. For it completely upset all my calculations. In vain I measured with my eye the ten paces I had come; in vain I looked up, looked this way and that. I was nonplussed. No window opened on the lane at that point, nor, indeed, throughout its length. ...
— A Gentleman of France • Stanley Weyman

... goes, there is indeed only one criterion by which a planet of this kind can be discriminated from a star. If the planet be large enough the telescope will show that it possesses a disc, and has a visible and measurable circular outline. This feature a star does not exhibit. The stars are indeed so remote that no matter how large they may be intrinsically, they only exhibit radiant points of light, which the utmost powers of the telescope fail to magnify into objects ...
— Great Astronomers • R. S. Ball


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