Meaning of "feature" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FEATURE

From Anglo-French feture, from Latin factūra a making, from facere to make.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF FEATURE

feature  [ˈfiːtʃə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FEATURE

Feature is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb feature in English.

WHAT DOES FEATURE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of feature in the English dictionary

The first definition of feature in the dictionary is any one of the parts of the face, such as the nose, chin, or mouth. Other definition of feature is a prominent or distinctive part or aspect, as of a landscape, building, book, etc. Feature is also the principal film in a programme at a cinema.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FEATURE

PRESENT

Present

I feature

you feature

he/she/it features

we feature

you feature

they feature

Present continuous

I am featuring

you are featuring

he/she/it is featuring

we are featuring

you are featuring

they are featuring

Present perfect

I have featured

you have featured

he/she/it has featured

we have featured

you have featured

they have featured

Present perfect continuous

I have been featuring

you have been featuring

he/she/it has been featuring

we have been featuring

you have been featuring

they have been featuring

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I featured

you featured

he/she/it featured

we featured

you featured

they featured

Past continuous

I was featuring

you were featuring

he/she/it was featuring

we were featuring

you were featuring

they were featuring

Past perfect

I had featured

you had featured

he/she/it had featured

we had featured

you had featured

they had featured

Past perfect continuous

I had been featuring

you had been featuring

he/she/it had been featuring

we had been featuring

you had been featuring

they had been featuring

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will feature

you will feature

he/she/it will feature

we will feature

you will feature

they will feature

Future continuous

I will be featuring

you will be featuring

he/she/it will be featuring

we will be featuring

you will be featuring

they will be featuring

Future perfect

I will have featured

you will have featured

he/she/it will have featured

we will have featured

you will have featured

they will have featured

Future perfect continuous

I will have been featuring

you will have been featuring

he/she/it will have been featuring

we will have been featuring

you will have been featuring

they will have been featuring

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would feature

you would feature

he/she/it would feature

we would feature

you would feature

they would feature

Conditional continuous

I would be featuring

you would be featuring

he/she/it would be featuring

we would be featuring

you would be featuring

they would be featuring

Conditional perfect

I would have feature

you would have feature

he/she/it would have feature

we would have feature

you would have feature

they would have feature

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been featuring

you would have been featuring

he/she/it would have been featuring

we would have been featuring

you would have been featuring

they would have been featuring

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you feature
we let´s feature
you feature

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to feature

Past participle

featured

Present Participle

featuring

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «FEATURE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «feature» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of feature

accentuate · appear · article · aspect · attraction · attribute · characteristic · column · comment · countenance · crowd puller · draw · emphasize · face · facet · factor · foreground · hallmark · headline · highlight · honeypot · innovation · item · mark · participate · peculiarity · physiognomy · piece · play a part · play up · point · present · promote · property · quality · report · set off · special · speciality · specialty · spotlight · star · story · trait

TRANSLATION OF FEATURE

Find out the translation of feature to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of feature from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «feature» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 特色
• Translator English - Spanish: característica
• English: feature
• Translator English - Hindi: सुविधा
• Translator English - Arabic: سِمَة
• Translator English - Russian: черта
• Translator English - Portuguese: característica
• Translator English - Bengali: বৈশিষ্ট্য
• Translator English - French: trait
• Translator English - Malay: Ciri
• Translator English - German: Gesichtszug
• Translator English - Japanese: 顔立ち
• Translator English - Korean: 특징
• Translator English - Javanese: Fitur
• Translator English - Vietnamese: đặc trưng
• Translator English - Tamil: அம்சம்
• Translator English - Marathi: वैशिष्ट्य
• Translator English - Turkish: özellik
• Translator English - Italian: caratteristica
• Translator English - Polish: cecha
• Translator English - Ukrainian: особливість
• Translator English - Romanian: particularitate
• Translator English - Greek: χαρακτηριστικό
• Translator English - Afrikaans: funksie
• Translator English - Swedish: egenskap
• Translator English - Norwegian: særpreg

10 QUOTES WITH «FEATURE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word feature.

1

Mark Addy

One of the differences between HBO and other television is that they demand the same coverage that you would have in a feature film. We need to have all the shots in order to make it as rich and as stunning as it looks. We can't cut any corners.

2

Kenneth Anger

The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.

3

Roone Arledge

But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.

4

Irving Babbitt

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

5

Brian Behlendorf

Success for open source is when the term 'open source' becomes a non-factor in the decision making process, when people hear about Linux and compare it to Windows NT, and they compare it on the feature set and don't have much of an excuse not to use it.

6

Jane Birkin

My distinguishing feature is the gap between my teeth. I had to wear a brace because my teeth used to stick out like guns from a fortress.

7

Earl Blumenauer

Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

8

C. J. Box

I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

9

Bill Burr

You start in bars and then restaurants, then you want to get into comedy clubs where you feature, then you headline, and once you sell out clubs you're into theaters. I've been able to get there, and it's cool to do that.

10

Bruce Campbell

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FEATURE»

Discover the use of feature in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to feature and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Double Feature

Payton and Emma are headed for celebrity status in this L.A. adventure!

Julia DeVillers, Jennifer Roy, 2012

Double Feature: A Novel

Unraveling the tumultuous, decades-spanning story of the Dolan family’s friends, lovers, and adversaries, Double Feature is about letting go of everything—regret, resentment, dignity, moving pictures, the dead—and taking it again from ...

Owen King, 2013

Feature Extraction & Image Processing

The new edition is updated throughout in line with developments in the field, and is revised to focus on mathematical programming in Matlab. * Essential reading for engineers and students working in this cutting edge field * Ideal module ...

Mark Nixon, 2008

Parametric and Feature-Based CAD/CAM: Concepts, Techniques, ...

Designed to make it easy to find, understand and use cutting edge techniques in parametric and feature based CAD/CAM.

Jami J. Shah, 1995

Computational Methods of Feature Selection

This is followed by discussions of weighting and local methods, such as the ReliefF family, k-means clustering, local feature relevance, and a new interpretation of Relief.

Huan Liu, Hiroshi Motoda, 2007

Distincitive feature theory

This volume consists of nine articles dealing with topics in distinctive feature theory in various typologically diverse languages, including Acehnese, Afrikaans, Basque, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Navajo, ...

T. Alan Hall, 2001

Feature Writing: A Practical Introduction

This book provides a practical and richly informative introduction to feature writing and the broader context in which features journalists operate.

Susan Pape, Sue Featherstone, 2006

Writing Feature Articles

Hennessy examines the different techniques required to write articles for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, and analyses in detail many published articles to show what makes them succeed for their audiences. Previous ed.: 1997.

Brendan Hennessy, 2006

Feature Interactions in Telecommunications Systems

The coordinated research presented in this volume presents a useful combination of techniques generated through protocol engineering, software testing, formal techniques and AI and the applications of such to telecommunication services.

L. G. Bouma, H. Velthuijsen, 1994

Feature Extraction, Construction and Selection: A Data ...

This text paints a picture of the techniques that can boost the capabilities of many data mining tools.

Huan Liu, Hiroshi Motoda, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FEATURE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term feature is used in the context of the following news items.

The One Radical New iPhone Feature I Wasn't Expecting

Go look for book, film or music news, and you'll probably wind up scouring Google's aggregation tool. There, filed neatly under “Entertainment,” ... «TIME, Jul 15»

[Android M Feature Spotlight] Second M Preview Adds Delete …

Ever since Android added support for native screenshots way back in Ice Cream Sandwich, there's been a handy notification after the ... «Android Police, Jul 15»

Oprah Winfrey's magazine under fire over feature insisting women …

She added: 'The feature is about women feeling healthy. Part of health is self-esteem and that's intrinsically connected to body image. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»

Comic-Con 2015: The 100 to feature time jump in season 3

In the wake of Clarke annihilating nearly everyone in Mt. Weather and then basically abandoning her people, The 100 will kick off season 3 ... «Entertainment Weekly, Jul 15»

Monte Carlo Summer Auction To Feature Boucheron, Cartier …

The Parisian auction house, Artcurial, will be holding its annual summer sale of luxurious collectibles in Monte-Carlo, July 20 – 22. The 11 ... «Forbes, Jul 15»

HBO 'Vice' to Feature Obama's Historic Presidential Visit to Federal …

President Obama will visit the El Reno federal prison in Oklahoma next week as part of a Vice special on the U.S. criminal-justice system set to ... «TheWrap, Jul 15»

CF band concert to feature tribute to Elvis

The one-hour program will feature University of Northern Iowa percussion instructor Matt Andreini performing a xylophone solo on “Piggly ... «Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, Jul 15»

Home / Car News / 2015-'16 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R To …

DEARBORN, Michigan — The 2015-'16 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R will be the first vehicle from a major automaker to feature carbon-fiber ... «Edmunds.com, Jul 15»

Historic North Wales biscuits to feature in national Marks & Spencer …

A scallop shell-shaped shortbread originating from Anglesey, has been chosen by Marks & Spencer for a range to feature in 180 of its stores ... «WalesOnline, Jul 15»

Fallout Shelter updated with Photo Feature and other improvements

Today's update to Fallout Shelter contains a new Photo Feature, which as we could safely assume, allows Overseers to snap a photo of their ... «Shacknews, Jul 15»