Ascribe vs. Attribute

Ascribe vs. Attribute — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Ascribe and Attribute

Ascribeverb

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

One may ascribe these problems to the federal government; however, at this stage it is unclear what caused them.

Attributenoun

A characteristic or quality of a thing.

His finest attribute is his kindness.

Ascribeverb

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

It is arguable as to whether we can truly ascribe this play to Shakespeare.

Attributenoun

(grammar) A word that qualifies a noun, a qualifier.

In the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket".

Ascribeverb

To believe in or agree with; subscribe.

Attributenoun

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

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Ascribeverb

attribute or credit to;

We attributed this quotation to ShakespearePeople impute great cleverness to cats

Attributenoun

An option or setting belonging to some object.

This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten.

Attributenoun

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

Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used.

Attributenoun

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Attributenoun

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

Attributeverb

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

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Attributeverb

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

This poem is attributed to Browning.

Attributenoun

a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished;

self-confidence is not an endearing property

Attributenoun

an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity

Attributeverb

attribute or credit to;

We attributed this quotation to ShakespearePeople impute great cleverness to cats

Attributeverb

decide as to where something belongs in a scheme;

The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class