Definition of Feature

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Feature

The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.

The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance.

The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.

A form; a shape.

Related Definitions:

An, And, Any, Anything, Appearance, As, Body, Cast, Characteristic, Countenance, Especially, Essay, Face, Form, Good, Human, Landscape, Lineament, Make, Marked, Of, One, Or, Outward, Part, Peculiarity, Person, Picture, Shape, Single, Structure, Style, The, Thing, Treaty, Turn, Whole

Feature Quotations

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
Thomas Jefferson

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
Thomas Jefferson

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Thomas Paine

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
Joseph Stalin

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
William Osler

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
Frank Lloyd Wright

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Alfred Hitchcock

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
Neil Young

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was You're a Big Boy Now.
Francis Ford Coppola

Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us.
George Takei

Feature Translations

feature in Dutch is karaktertrek, trek, gelaatstrek
feature in Finnish is piirre
feature in French is trait, caracteristique
feature in Norwegian is trekk, innslag, attraksjon

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