Definition of "feature" []

• Any of the distinct parts of the face, as the eyes, nose, or mouth. (noun)
• The overall appearance of the face or its parts. Often used in the plural. (noun)
• A prominent or distinctive aspect, quality, or characteristic: a feature of one's personality; a feature of the landscape. (noun)
• Linguistics A property of linguistic units or forms: Nasality is a phonological feature. (noun)
• Linguistics In generative linguistics, any of various abstract entities that combine to specify underlying phonological, morphological, semantic, and syntactic properties of linguistic forms and that act as the targets of linguistic rules and operations. (noun)

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• "” Only one feature was advertised at one time, but the “feature” was always carefully selected for its wide popular appeal, and then Mr. Curtis spared no expense to advertise it abundantly."
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• "˜feature of the situation™ so broadly that any possible explanatory fact can count as a feature of the situation."