Ascribe vs. Attribute: What's the Difference?

To regard as arising from a specified cause or source

To regard as arising from a particular cause or source; ascribe

To regard as belonging to or produced by a specified agent, place, or time

To regard (a work, for example) as belonging to or produced by a specified agent, place, or time

(transitive) To attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something.

A quality or characteristic inherent in or ascribed to someone or something.

(transitive) To attribute a book, painting or any work of art or literature to a writer or creator.

An object associated with and serving to identify a character, personage, or office

To believe in or agree with; subscribe.

(Grammar) A word or phrase syntactically subordinate to another word or phrase that it modifies; for example, my sister's and brown in my sister's brown dog.

To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author.

A characteristic or quality of a thing.

To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or allege to belong.

An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.

Attribute or credit to;

(grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.

(logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.

An option or setting belonging to some object.

(programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.

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A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.

To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.

To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).

That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.

Reputation.

A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.

Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.

A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished;

An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity

Attribute or credit to;

Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme;