TRAIT


Meaning of TRAIT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a personality trait formal (= a part of your personality )

She shares many of her mother’s personality traits.

endearing qualities/traits etc

Shyness is one of her most endearing qualities.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

certain

In these, the modifier is the selector, and hence presupposes certain traits of the head.

Also, the subjects found that certain traits which they felt strongly about were important to whether they were likeable or not.

genetic

Nocturnal enuresis alone, particularly if primary, is both a disorder of maturation and a genetic trait .

Cultural practices, like genetic traits , are transmitted from individual to individual.

human

Unfortunately, the ability to listen to the problems of another person is not a universal human trait .

other

Of course, as for any other trait , it may be impossible for any one homozygous genotype to achieve the optimum.

Among other traits of character, Xerxes was an aesthete.

Powell shares other traits with Brown as well.

In this section, I discuss other traits for which this difficulty arises.

particular

Biased estimates of variation in reproductive success may also cause the effects of particular phenotypic traits on reproductive success to be overestimated.

Is it the specific disorder, a particular personality trait associated with the disorder, or a general vulnerability to psychiatric disturbance?

personal

Third, one can identify those personal traits of the individual that are related to activism.

Important personal traits for funeral directors are composure, tact, and the ability to communicate easily with the public.

physical

Cetaceans today still carry in their bodies some of the physical traits of their land-dwelling ancestors.

■ NOUN

character

The inviolable Gedge formed character traits as a child that give a fascinating insight into his later life.

The character trait here is over-dependence, lack of autonomy. 2.

But your greatest character trait is your honesty.

It was an innate character trait .

personality

Initially, they defined the personality traits of those with this syndrome: Authoritarians are extremely conventional in their attitudes and morality.

Firstly, children should be able to establish reasons why there are individual differences in personality traits and emotional reactions.

Richard Lugar, for instance, briefly sought the presidency themselves but died of inhibited personality traits on the campaign trail.

What are the personality traits of Chemical Dependency?

For Barber, key personality traits define each of the four types of political personality.

Downs argues that bureaucrats do exhibit personality traits but these may differ.

As a result, they are unable ever to get beyond the personality traits they find irritating.

■ VERB

inherit

In reality, a well-endowed man is likely to have inherited the trait .

The structural changes that are seen in hemoglobin 5 and C disorders are inherited as autosomal recessive traits . 216.

There is a suggestion that offspring do not have an even chance of inheriting a trait from either parent.

At the same time, though, inherited psychological and physiological traits had their dangerous downsides.

share

The Roosevelts and Robinsons shared many of these traits , and added some of their own.

All the witnesses share one trait .

show

She shows both traits assigned to the men, immorality and dishonesty.

The citizens who stepped out of the crowd and ran for office Tuesday showed they had that trait .

Haemoglobin electrophoresis showed sickle cell trait .

She also showed obsessional traits , including rituals concerned with dressing, washing, and general checking.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a genetic trait

Certain personality traits make people more likely to become victims of violent crime.

Does Bryce have any bad traits?

It's a human trait to joke about subjects that make us uncomfortable.

Pride seems to be one of our family traits.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

His most noticeable trait was his charm, which he could seemingly turn on at will.

Natural selection is of traits favourable to the survival, not of individuals, but of successive generations.

Of course, I was only displaying the ultimately cliched boomer trait , a tortured denial of my own advancing years.

One should select the essential trait and reproduce it-or, even better, produce it.

Our entrepreneurial drive has long been our distinguishing trait .

She shows both traits assigned to the men, immorality and dishonesty.

The mutation has no functional significance and controls no traits, researchers say.

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