Adjective vs. Characteristic
Adjectivenoun
(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.
‘The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives.’;
Characteristicadjective
Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
Adjectivenoun
(obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
Characteristicnoun
A distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
‘The para-communist doctrine of antiwhiteness reflects the defining characteristics of communist ideology — deceit, malice, and struggle.’;
Adjectiveadjective
(obsolete) Incapable of independent function.
Characteristicnoun
(mathematics) The integer part of a logarithm.
Adjectiveadjective
(grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
Characteristicnoun
(nautical) The distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc.).
Adjectiveadjective
(legal) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
Characteristicnoun
For a given field or ring, a natural number that is either the smallest positive number n such that n instances of the multiplicative identity (1) summed together yield the additive identity (0) or, if no such number exists, the number 0.
‘The characteristic of a field, if non-zero, must be a prime number.’;
Adjectiveadjective
Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
Characteristicadjective
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive.
‘Characteristic clearness of temper.’;
Adjectiveverb
(transitive) To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
Characteristicnoun
A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an element of character; that which characterized.
‘The characteristics of a true critic.’;
Adjectiveadjective
Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence.
Characteristicnoun
The integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm.
Adjectiveadjective
Not standing by itself; dependent.
Characteristicnoun
a prominent aspect of something;
‘the map showed roads and other features’; ‘generosity is one of his best characteristics’;
Adjectiveadjective
Relating to procedure.
Characteristicnoun
a distinguishing quality
Adjectivenoun
A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.
Characteristicnoun
the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2
Adjectivenoun
A dependent; an accessory.
Characteristicnoun
any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions
Adjectiveverb
To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective.
‘Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has . . . adjectived all three.’;
Characteristicadjective
typical or distinctive;
‘heard my friend's characteristic laugh’; ‘red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn’; ‘stripes characteristic of the zebra’;
Adjectivenoun
a word that expresses an attribute of something
Characteristicadjective
typical of a particular person, place, or thing
‘he began with a characteristic attack on extremism’;
Adjectivenoun
the word class that qualifies nouns
Characteristicnoun
a feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify them
‘certain defining characteristics of the school emerge from the study’;
Adjectiveadjective
of or relating to or functioning as an adjective;
‘adjectival syntax’; ‘an adjective clause’;
Characteristicnoun
the whole number or integral part of a logarithm, which gives the order of magnitude of the original number.
Adjectiveadjective
applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure;
‘adjective law’;
Adjective
In linguistics, an adjective (abbreviated adj) is a word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes its referent. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun.
