"attributive" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ə.ˈtɹɪ.bju.tɪv/ [UK, US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-attributive.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more attributive [comparative], most attributive [superlative]
Etymology: attribute + -ive Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|attribute|ive}} attribute + -ive Head templates: {{en-adj}} attributive (comparative more attributive, superlative most attributive)
  1. (grammar, of a word or phrase) Modifying another word, typically a noun, while in the same phrase. Tags: of a word or phrase Categories (topical): Grammar
    Sense id: en-attributive-en-adj-ukekgV6g Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
  2. Attributing; characterized by attributing; effecting attribution. Translations (having the nature of an attribute): atributiu (Catalan), 歸屬的 (Chinese Mandarin), 归属的 (guīshǔ de) (Chinese Mandarin), attributief (Dutch), attributiivinen (Finnish), attributif [masculine] (French), attributiv (German), cáilíochta (Irish), анықтауыштық (anyqtauyştyq) (Kazakh), атрибуттық (atributtyq) (Kazakh), атрибути́вный (atributívnyj) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-attributive-en-adj-gDBKqyY6 Disambiguation of 'having the nature of an attribute': 31 69
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: attributive adjective, attributively, attributive noun, attributive verb, multiattributive Related terms: attribute Translations (of, or being an attributive): təyini (Azerbaijani), atributiu (Catalan), 定語的 (Chinese Mandarin), 定语的 (dìngyǔ de) (Chinese Mandarin), attributiv (Danish), attributief (Dutch), attributiivinen (Finnish), épithète (French), attributiv (German), jelzői (Hungarian), aitreabúideach (Irish), 限定的な (genteiteki na) (alt: げんていてきな) (Japanese), анықтауыштық (anyqtauyştyq) (Kazakh), atrybutywny (Polish), określający (Polish), atributiv [masculine, neuter] (Romanian), определи́тельный (opredelítelʹnyj) (Russian), buaidh-aithriseach (Scottish Gaelic), atributivo (Spanish), attributiv (Swedish), disgrifiadol (Welsh)
Disambiguation of 'of, or being an attributive': 0 0

Noun

IPA: /ə.ˈtɹɪ.bju.tɪv/ [UK, US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-attributive.wav [Southern-England] Forms: attributives [plural]
Etymology: attribute + -ive Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|attribute|ive}} attribute + -ive Head templates: {{en-noun}} attributive (plural attributives)
  1. (grammar) An attributive word or phrase (see above), contrasted with predicative or substantive. Categories (topical): Grammar Translations (a word or phrase that modifies a noun and is part of the noun's noun phrase): 定語 (Chinese Mandarin), 定语 (dìngyǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), attributiivi (Finnish), épithète [masculine] (French), jelző (Hungarian), 連体形 (rentaikei) (alt: れんたいけい) (Japanese), attribuhtta (Northern Sami), przydawka [feminine] (Polish), определе́ние (opredelénije) [neuter] (Russian), атрибути́в (atributív) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-attributive-en-noun-xdBtMGSK Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

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          "ref": "1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 197",
          "text": "Since both Attributes and Adjuncts recursively expand N-bar into N-bar, it seems clear that the two have essentially the same function, so that Attributes are simply pronominal Adjuncts (though we shall continue to follow tradition and refer to attributive premodifiers as Attributes rather than Adjuncts).",
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          "text": "Gramatically, three ways of using adjectives can be distinguished: the attributive use, the predicative use and the adverbial use. We will only deal with the attributive and the predicative use here. In the attributive use, the adjective, within an NP, is attached to the head noun, e.g. a dubious company, a red balloon, the stupid driver.",
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          "ref": "1806, Benjamin Dawson, Philologia Anglicana: or, a Philological and synonymical dictionary of the English language [\"A-Adornment\"], page 36",
          "text": "To hate, &c.] Or thus, To be affected with hatred and horrour at. For abhor, though arranged in our dictionaries among verbs active, attributes an affection rather than an act of the mind. As the mind however is an active principle, all verbs attributive of what passes in the mind, even those we call neuter, attribute at the same time some mental act or operation. To grieve is reckoned a verb neuter; yet in grieving at some misfortune, the mind is not less active than it is in abhorring or loathing an object; which latter verbs are called verbs active.",
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          "ref": "1808, Charles Wilkins, A Grammar of the Sanskrita Language, page 516",
          "text": "947 आल and आट put after वाक् Speech, with it form adjectives attributive of much bad or improper speaking; as वाचाल, or वाचाट Who utters much bad language.\n948 […] affixed to nouns, with them form adjectives attributive of detraction,[…]",
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