feature

«feature» in Mova's school dictionary: an important or interesting part or quality of something — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a feature, features); verb (feature, features, featured, featuring)

meaning for a pupil

1) A feature is an important or interesting part or quality of something. tree →

2) Features are the parts of your face, like eyes, nose and mouth. tree →

3) A feature is a special article in a newspaper or a programme on a topic. tree →

4) To feature means to include or show something important, or to appear in something. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography, physical features are natural things like rivers, mountains and coasts; human features are things people built, like roads and towns. In English, features of a text (headings, captions) help readers. In maths, features of shapes are sides, corners and edges. In everyday life phones and games have new features. Phrases: «key feature», «physical features», «facial features», «feature film», «featuring».

examples

• A river is a physical feature of the landscape. tree →
• The new phone has lots of cool features. tree →
• She has her father's features. tree →
• Name three features of a non-fiction text. tree →
• The film features a talking dog. tree →
• One feature of a cube is that all its faces are squares. tree →
• The castle is the main feature of the town. tree →
• Our class project was featured in the school newsletter. tree →
• But I have found in him one great redeeming feature. tree →

note

Countable: features. Verb regular: featured, featuring. «Featuring» on songs or films means «with» (shown as «feat.» or «ft.»). A «feature film» is a full-length film.

In the corpora

• Many bots forget everything when you start a new chat, unless a memory feature is switched on.
• Newspaper features include a headline, a photo, a caption and columns.
• "Undocumented feature" is a joking name for a software bug.
• A landmark is a feature that is easy to recognise and remember.
• A political map shows countries, borders and cities, while a physical map shows natural features such as mountains, rivers and heights.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «feature» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.