Attribute vs. Identity — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Attribute and Identity
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Attribute
To regard as arising from a particular cause or source; ascribe
Attributed their failure to a lack of preparation.
Identity
The fact of being who or what a person or thing is
She believes she is the victim of mistaken identity
He knows the identity of the bombers
Attribute
To regard (a work, for example) as belonging to or produced by a specified agent, place, or time
Attributed the painting to Titian.
Attributed the vase to 18th-century Japan.
Identity
A close similarity or affinity
An identity between the company's own interests and those of the local community
Attribute
A quality or characteristic inherent in or ascribed to someone or something.
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Identity
A transformation that leaves an object unchanged.
Attribute
An object associated with and serving to identify a character, personage, or office
Lightning bolts are an attribute of Zeus.
Identity
The equality of two expressions for all values of the quantities expressed by letters, or an equation expressing this, e.g. (x + 1)² = x² + 2x + 1.
Attribute
(Grammar) A word or phrase syntactically subordinate to another word or phrase that it modifies; for example, my sister's and brown in my sister's brown dog.
Identity
The condition of being a certain person or thing
What is the identity of the author of the manuscript?.
Attribute
A characteristic or quality of a thing.
His finest attribute is his kindness.
Identity
The set of characteristics by which a person or thing is definitively recognizable or known
"The identity of the nation had ... been keenly contested in the period of nationalist opposition to Imperial rule" (Judith M. Brown).
Attribute
An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.
The eagle and the bolt of lightning are attributes of Jove.
Identity
The awareness that an individual or group has of being a distinct, persisting entity
"He felt more at home thousands of miles from Britain than he did in an English village four miles from his home ... Was he losing his identity?" (Robert Fallon).
Attribute
(grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.
Identity
The fact or condition of being the same as something else
The identity of the two handwriting samples was established by an expert.
Attribute
(logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
Identity
The fact or condition of being associated or affiliated with something else
The identity between mass and energy.
Attribute
An option or setting belonging to some object.
This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.
A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten.
Identity
Information, such as an identification number, used to establish or prove a person's individuality, as in providing access to a credit account.
Attribute
(programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used.
Identity
An equation that is satisfied by any number that replaces the letter for which the equation is defined.
Attribute
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Identity
Identity element.
Attribute
A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
Identity
Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
Attribute
To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.
Identity
The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind, selfhood, sense of who something or someone or oneself is, or the recurring characteristics that enable the recognition of such an individual or group by others or themself.
I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity.
This nation has a strong identity.
Attribute
To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.
This poem is attributed to Browning.
Identity
A name or persona—a mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
This criminal has taken on several identities.
In this show, the competitor's identity will remain secret until after the vote.
Attribute
To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).
We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.
The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer.
Identity
(mathematics) An equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables.
The equation (x+y)(x−y) = x2−y2 is an algebraic identity. It is true regardless of the values of x and y.
Attribute
That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.
But mercy is above this sceptered away; . . .It is an attribute to God himself.
Identity
Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
Attribute
Reputation.
Identity
(algebra) An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this second element.
Attribute
A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.
Identity
A well-known or famous person.
Attribute
Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.
Identity
The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness.
Identity is a relation between our cognitions of a thing, not between things themselves.
Attribute
A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished;
Self-confidence is not an endearing property
Identity
The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods.
Attribute
An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity
Identity
An identical equation.
Attribute
Attribute or credit to;
We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare
People impute great cleverness to cats
Identity
The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity;
You can lose your identity when you join the army
Attribute
Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme;
The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class
Identity
The individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known;
Geneticists only recently discovered the identity of the gene that causes it
It was too dark to determine his identity
She guessed the identity of his lover
Identity
An operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates;
The identity under numerical multiplication is 1
Identity
Exact sameness;
They shared an identity of interests
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