feature – English noun declension

English noun forms of feature

Noun: feature
Singularfeature
Pluralfeatures

Sample Sentences

  • all the powres of nature, / Which she by art could vse vnto her will, / And to her seruice bind each liuing creature; / Through secret vnderstanding of their feature. [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
  • a water feature
  • Features of this model include a long battery life and a durable case.
  • The program contained an internal feature, which allowed a user to update display text after each command keystroke. [2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom:]
  • Whoop Life has a feature called Blood Pressure Insights that uses various bits of data—including heart rate, HRV, and blood flow patterns—to estimate your blood pressure. [2026, Ginny Graves, “The Most Important Health Metric You're Not Tracking”, in Men's Health, volume 41, number 2, page 18:]
  • A feature interview with a noted personality or a discussion covering a specific issue is then presented. [1984 April 7, Warren Blumenfeld, “Boston's Other Voice”, in Gay Community News, page 8:]
  • He was included in a feature that was written by the EspnCricinfo department on the media.
  • one of the features of the landscape
  • The most prominent feature of the New England land system was the town grant, which in every case became the territorial basis of a group settlement. [1911, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:]
  • Another recently discovered cave temple site, Shizikou in Linyou County, Shaanxi, preserves sculptures with thin legs, particularly bodhisattvas, that are much taller and more slender than the figures of this niche but share a number of stylistic features, including a diagonal chest shawl and a dhoti with an overlapping apron of cloth that falls from the waist in the same two-part pattern of scalloped folds and a waist tie hanging down the middle; they have long tubular arms as well. (龛式阿弥陀佛和二观音菩萨造像) [2007, Annette L. Juliano, “Niche with Amitabha Buddha and two Guanyin (Skt. Avalokiteshvara) Bodhisattvas [龛式阿弥陀佛和二观音菩萨造像]”, in Buddhist Sculpture from China: Selections from the Xi’an Beilin Museum: Fifth through Ninth Centuries, New York: China Institute, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 100, column 1:]
  • England are up and running. Again. It has been a happy feature of the Gareth Southgate years that his team always win their opening tie at tournaments. It never used to be the case with England but to the list that features Tunisia, Croatia and Iran can be added the name of Serbia. [2024 June 16, David Hytner, “Jude Bellingham gives England winning start but Serbia make Southgate sweat”, in Guardian:]
  • A feature of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other features at these sites may include small hearths.
  • MIT researchers are striving to improve the interpretability of features so decision makers will be more comfortable using the outputs of machine-learning models. Drawing on years of field work, they developed a taxonomy to help developers craft features that will be easier for their target audience to understand. [2022 June 30, Adam Zewe, “Building explainability into the components of machine-learning models”, in MIT News:]

Etymology

From Middle English feture, from Anglo-Norman feture, from Old French faiture, from Latin factūra, from Latin factus, from Latin faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place, set”). Doublet of facture. See: Middle English Nouns 'feture', Latin Nouns 'factūra', Latin Nouns 'factus', Latin Nouns 'faciō'.

Verbs referencing "feature"

Polish Nouns ficzer, German Nouns Feature, Russian Nouns фича, Ukrainian Nouns фіча.