I. verb
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■ NOUN
success
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I attribute Guruji's healing success to two main factors.
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Q: To what do you attribute this success ?
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Many successful companies in the most advanced industrial countries would attribute much of their success to revised approaches to quality assurance.
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I attribute that partly to discipline, partly to desire, and partly to the old transferability of skills.
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One very significant change from Morgan we can attribute to Marx.
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She achieves this by attributing to Freud a relatively low level of transhistorical applicability.
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Some economists attribute much of the rising wage inequality in this country to the shift in favor of the most skilled workers.
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The charitable thing to do would be to attribute this to great defense.
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We describe their behaviour by attributing our explanations to those individuals.
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We do not attribute reality to all the objects of our apparent perception.
II. noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
certain
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One manifestation of this is the packages ability to search for headings with certain tags and attributes .
desirable
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Character as a Criterion Character is the motivation behind right actions: Responsibility is a desirable character attribute .
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A drawback to this response is that merely bearing a desirable attribute in mind does not necessarily remove the problem.
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The survey appears to contradict motor industry claims that customers still rate high performance as one of the most desirable attributes .
different
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Different sweeps - sideways, front and back, or up and down - each alter different musical attributes .
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Each of the player selections has different attributes in knowledge, strength and experience.
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The emphasis was no longer placed on male domination, but rather on women's equal but different attributes .
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It may also be that we look for different attributes in different parts of the public service.
essential
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This is clearly an essential attribute for articles of jewellery and functional items such as tableware.
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They show not the slightest sign of that one essential attribute we think animal life should have: movement.
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Male sexuality was defined as an instinctual force which, while needing constant medical supervision, was an essential attribute of masculinity.
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The problems arise when these are reified as essential attributes of an entire spectrum of cultural form.
human
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Class Status derives from the tendency of people to accord positive and negative values to human attributes and to distribute respect accordingly.
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The third human attribute in Williamson's model is dignity, though it is one of the least-developed concepts.
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Physical activity - without which we feel deprived of our most human attributes . 6.
important
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Three criteria have been chosen, attempting to measure the most important attributes of company performance over the year.
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Ultimately water authority staff prize personal qualities as an officer's most important attributes .
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I was learning the most important attribute of any budding ornithologist - patience.
key
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Each tuple in a relation is distinguished from another because one or more attributes in a relation are designated key attributes.
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The particular attribute or group of attributes that uniquely identifies an entity occurrence is known as the key attribute or attributes.
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The key attributes will uniquely identify any entity occurrence.
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Her accuracy, excellent memory and attention to detail were key attributes throughout her career.
main
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In my view these are the main attributes of the book and will prove extremely valuable for anyone entering the field.
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Furthermore, one of his main attributes is the capacity to link to other gangs and their leaders.
other
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He exploited his age, like all his other attributes , to great dramatic effect.
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These are partly determined by and partly determine the other attributes .
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Each link object specifies some source node, link type, target node, pointers to paragraphs, and perhaps other attributes .
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Shape and other attributes are encoded in the same kind of way, encoded into a form that is convenient to handle.
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I think the critical point is how much he has lost in pace and whether those other attributes are in decline.
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For example, area V4 in monkeys is specialized for processing colour information but doesn't encode other attributes like motion or position.
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We would therefore expect to find patients who had lost colour vision without losing other attributes of vision, like motion detection.
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The other attributes are optional and may be entered in any order.
personal
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Reviewing career goals Detecting and quantifying the innate personal attributes of the effective nurse has puzzled recruiters for many years.
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Since then, other national reports have stressed the need for these kinds of personal and cognitive attributes .
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Obviously, the effectiveness of such training would depend upon the match that existed with personal attributes .
physical
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Its physical attributes are shared visually.
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His face has been the object of as much speculation as any other physical attribute .
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The way in which we clothe our bodies and accentuate our physical attributes can also build power.
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Then write an outstanding characteristic-a physical attribute , a result it brings, or an unusual feature.
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As a source of power, physical attributes may be short-lived and superficial.
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In addition to the physical attributes to look for there are naturally a host of technical features to check.
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All through the ages men have had names which recognised their prowess at arms or through some physical attribute .
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Now, what we don't want are detailed particulars of the shop, the salesperson's home address and physical attributes .
positive
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Control of the beat officer through formal organizational sanctions had both negative and positive attributes .
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For example, a physician can present the baby to the parents by focusing on normal features and positive attributes .
various
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Dragons, a game requiring several players who take on fantasy personas with various attributes that determine their success in assorted quests.
■ VERB
possess
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But why should the crown possess this mystic attribute of being able to contain and confer sovereignty?
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It is a system that is alive, whether or not it possesses all the attributes needed for an organism.
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Physically short and slightly built, Atkinson possessed remarkable attributes .
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Lewis certainly possesses the physical attributes for the task in hand.
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He had all the attributes of a great leader: charisma, energy, discipline, and resourcefulness.
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He possesses the essential attributes of a journalist.
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Hope is one of mankind's most enduring and rewarding attributes.
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Kindness is just one of her many attributes.
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She spent most of the interview describing the company's attributes to me.
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The attribute that people found most attractive in Sharon was her optimism.
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But he also offers an attribute not commonly found in the breed: intelligence.
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Everyone knew he had all the attributes a golfer needs, and his swing was poetry in motion.
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In addition to this attribute database a cartographic database is also being developed.
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In Brunnson's view, effective ideologies should have three attributes.
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It then extracts the required object or attribute and presents its graphically.
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Physically short and slightly built, Atkinson possessed remarkable attributes.
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Several pots with the same attributes constitute a pot type, and typology groups artifacts into such types.
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Teamwork contributed to both the identification of location clients and the delivery of Glasgow's attributes to meet their specific needs.