"trait" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /tɹeɪt/, /tɹeɪ/ (note: traditional British pronunciation, now virtually obsolete) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-trait.wav [Southern-England] Forms: traits [plural]
enPR: trā (note: traditional British pronunciation, now virtually obsolete) Rhymes: -eɪt, -eɪ Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French trait (“line, feature”), from Latin tractus (“drawing, pulling”), from Latin trahō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to drag, pull?”), perhaps a variation of *dʰregʰ- (“to pull, draw, drag”). Doublet of tract. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|trait||line, feature}} Middle French trait (“line, feature”), {{der|en|la|tractus||drawing, pulling}} Latin tractus (“drawing, pulling”), {{der|en|la|traho|trahō}} Latin trahō, {{der|en|ine-pro|*tregʰ-||to drag, pull?}} Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to drag, pull?”), {{m|ine-pro|*dʰregʰ-||to pull, draw, drag}} *dʰregʰ- (“to pull, draw, drag”), {{doublet|en|tract}} Doublet of tract Head templates: {{en-noun}} trait (plural traits)
  1. (biology, psychology) An identifying characteristic, habit or trend. Categories (topical): Biology, Psychology Synonyms: characteristic Translations (an identifying characteristic, habit or trend): صِفَة (ṣifa) [feminine] (Arabic), شِيْمَة (šiyma) [feminine] (Arabic), سِمَة (sima) [feminine] (Arabic), сифат (sifat) (Bashkir), ры́са (rýsa) [feminine] (Belarusian), белег (beleg) [masculine] (Bulgarian), отличителна черта (otličitelna čerta) [feminine] (Bulgarian), черта́ (čertá) [feminine] (Bulgarian), tret [masculine] (Catalan), 特徵 (Chinese Mandarin), 特征 (tèzhēng) (Chinese Mandarin), rys [masculine] (Czech), karaktereigenschap trek (Dutch), trajto (Esperanto), piirre (Finnish), ominaisuus (Finnish), trait [masculine] (French), Eigenschaft [feminine] (German), Zug [masculine] (German), מאפיין (meafyén) [masculine] (Hebrew), תכונה (tkhuná) [feminine] (Hebrew), jellemző (Hungarian), jellemvonás (Hungarian), einkenni [neuter] (Icelandic), eiginleiki [masculine] (Icelandic), caratteristica [feminine] (Italian), tratto [masculine] (Italian), 特徴 (tokuchō) (alt: とくちょう) (Japanese), 특징 (teukjing) (Korean), trekk [neuter] (Norwegian), egenskap [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), eigenskap [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), drag (Norwegian Nynorsk), trach [masculine] (Occitan), trait (Occitan), صفت (sefat) (Persian), خصلت (xeslat) (Persian), cecha [feminine] (Polish), rys [masculine] (Polish), traço (Portuguese), peculiaridade (Portuguese), черта́ (čertá) [feminine] (Russian), осо́бенность (osóbennostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), прису́щее (prisúščeje) (Russian), vlastnosť [feminine] (Slovak), črta [feminine] (Slovak), rys [masculine] (Slovak), rasgo [masculine] (Spanish), característica [feminine] (Spanish), carácter [masculine] [biology, natural-sciences] (Spanish), drag [neuter] (Swedish), egenskap [common-gender] (Swedish), egenhet [common-gender] (Swedish), panangi (Tagalog), นิสัย (ní-sǎi) (Thai), özellik (Turkish), vasıf (Turkish), ри́са (rýsa) [feminine] (Ukrainian), đặc điểm (Vietnamese), đặc tính (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-trait-en-noun-hCDhJDTt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Topics: biology, human-sciences, natural-sciences, psychology, sciences Disambiguation of 'an identifying characteristic, habit or trend': 98 2
  2. (object-oriented programming) An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface. Categories (topical): Object-oriented programming Translations (uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface): piirre (Finnish), типа́ж (tipáž) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-trait-en-noun-sltRAlQy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of 'uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface': 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: character trait, subordinate trait, traitlike, X-linked trait Related terms: sickle cell trait, tract, tractate, treat, treaty

Inflected forms

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          "text": "The number one personality trait I hate is hypocrisy. Why can't you be consistent!?",
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          "ref": "1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits, Truth",
          "text": "The English, of all classes, value themselves on this trait, as distinguishing them from the French, who, in the popular belief, are more polite than true.",
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          "ref": "1916, John Dewey, Democracy and Education",
          "text": "The positive and constructive aspect of possibility gives the key to understanding the two chief traits of immaturity, dependence and plasticity.",
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          "ref": "2003, Robert S. Siegler, Judy S. DeLoache, Nancy Eisenberg, How Children Develop, Macmillan, page 89",
          "text": "Turning to our second trait, if you have straight hair, then both of your parents must carry an allele for this trait.",
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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "otličitelna čerta",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
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          "word": "отличителна черта"
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          "roman": "čertá",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
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          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "word": "piirre"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "word": "ominaisuus"
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
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          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
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          "code": "de",
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          "lang": "German",
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          "word": "Zug"
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          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "meafyén",
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          "tags": [
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          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "tkhuná",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
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          "word": "תכונה"
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "word": "jellemző"
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        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "word": "jellemvonás"
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "einkenni"
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "eiginleiki"
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "caratteristica"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tratto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "alt": "とくちょう",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "tokuchō",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "word": "特徴"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "teukjing",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "word": "특징"
        },
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "word": "trekk"
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "egenskap"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "eigenskap"
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          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "word": "drag"
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        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "trach"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "word": "trait"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "sefat",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "word": "صفت"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "xeslat",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "word": "خصلت"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cecha"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "rys"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "word": "traço"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "word": "peculiaridade"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "čertá",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "черта́"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "osóbennostʹ",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "осо́бенность"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "prisúščeje",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "word": "прису́щее"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "vlastnosť"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "črta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "rys"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "rasgo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
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        },
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
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            "natural-sciences"
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          "word": "carácter"
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "drag"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
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          "word": "egenskap"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "egenhet"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "word": "panangi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "ní-sǎi",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "word": "นิสัย"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "word": "özellik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
          "word": "vasıf"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
      "word": "özellik"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
      "word": "vasıf"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "rýsa",
      "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ри́са"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
      "word": "đặc điểm"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "an identifying characteristic, habit or trend",
      "word": "đặc tính"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface",
      "word": "piirre"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tipáž",
      "sense": "uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "типа́ж"
    }
  ],
  "word": "trait"
}

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