All 7 Uses of
attribute
in
The Fountainhead
- Pink marble is caused by the presence of manganese oxides, gray marble is due to carbonaceous matter, yellow marble is attributed to a hydrous oxide of iron.
Chpt 2.2 (definition 1) *attributed = credited (pointed to as the cause of something)
- His victims had a single attribute in common: their immaculate integrity.†
Chpt 3.1 (definition 1)
- It was a chronic attribute, pervading his entire person.†
Chpt 4.6 (definition 1)
- The room was not exactly modern, not quite Colonial and just a little short of French Empire; the furnishings presented straight planes and swan-neck supports, black mirrors and electric hurricane lamps, chromium and tapestry; there was unity in a single attribute: in the expensiveness of everything.†
Chpt 4.6 (definition 1)
- From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man—the function of his reasoning mind.†
Chpt 4.18 (definition 2)
- But the mind is an attribute of the individual.†
Chpt 4.18 (definition 2) *
- A face remote and quiet, with a dignity of its own, not a living attribute, but the dignity of a figure on a medieval tomb that speaks of past greatness and forbids a hand to reach out for the remains.†
Chpt 4.19 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (attribute as in: I attribute it to...) to credit (a source for something)in two typical senses:
- "I attribute it to her work." -- to say who or what made something happen
- "Remember to attribute any quotations in your paper." -- indicate the source of a quotation or idea
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(2) (attribute as in: It is an attribute of...) a characteristic (of something or someone)