Attribute may refer to:
- In research, a characteristic of an object (person, thing, etc.) - see attribute (research)
- In philosophy, property (philosophy), an abstraction of a characteristic of an entity or substance
- In art, an object that identifies a figure, most commonly referring to objects held by saints (earlier, by pagan gods) - see emblem
- In linguistics, a syntax unit, either a word, phrase or clause, that modifies a noun
- A deity's aspect; see Apophatic theology
- Attribute grammar, in formal computer languages
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Famous quotes containing the word attribute:
“Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of conspiracy, have a clearly political analysis of the epidemic. But even if one attributes its cause to a microorganism rather than the wrath of God, or the workings of the CIA, it is clear that the way in which AIDS has been perceived, conceptualized, imagined, researched and financed makes this the most political of diseases.”
—Dennis Altman (b. 1943)
“If Los Angeles has been called “the capital of crackpots” and “the metropolis of isms,” the native Angeleno can not fairly attribute all of the city’s idiosyncrasies to the newcomer—at least not so long as he consults the crystal ball for guidance in his business dealings and his wife goes shopping downtown in beach pajamas.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)