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Feature vs. Landmark — What's the Difference?

Feature vs. Landmark — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Feature and Landmark

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Feature

Any of the distinct parts of the face, as the eyes, nose, or mouth.

Landmark

A landmark is a recognizable natural or artificial feature used for navigation, a feature that stands out from its near environment and is often visible from long distances. In modern use, the term can also be applied to smaller structures or features, that have become local or national symbols.

Feature

Often features The overall appearance of the face or its parts.

Landmark

An object or feature of a landscape or town that is easily seen and recognized from a distance, especially one that enables someone to establish their location
The spire was once a landmark for ships sailing up the river

Feature

A prominent or distinctive part, quality, or characteristic
A feature of one's personality.
A feature of the landscape.
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Landmark

An event or discovery marking an important stage or turning point in something
The vaccine is a landmark in the history of preventive medicine

Feature

A property of linguistic units or forms
Nasality is a phonological feature.

Landmark

A prominent identifying feature of a landscape.

Feature

In generative linguistics, any of various abstract entities that specify or combine to specify phonological, morphological, semantic, and syntactic properties of linguistic forms and that act as the targets of linguistic rules and operations.

Landmark

A fixed marker, such as a concrete block, that indicates a boundary line.

Feature

The main film presentation at a theater.

Landmark

An event marking an important stage of development or a turning point in history.

Feature

A long, narrative movie, typically lasting more than one hour.

Landmark

A building or site with historical significance, especially one marked for preservation by a municipal or national government.

Feature

A special attraction at an entertainment.

Landmark

Having great import or significance
A landmark court ruling.

Feature

A prominent or special article, story, or department in a newspaper or periodical.

Landmark

To accord the status of a landmark to; declare to be a landmark.

Feature

An item advertised or offered as particularly attractive or as an inducement
A washing machine with many features.

Landmark

(historical) An object that marks the boundary of a piece of land (usually a stone, or a tree).

Feature

Outward appearance; form or shape.

Landmark

A recognizable natural or man-made feature used for navigation.

Feature

Physical beauty.

Landmark

A notable location with historical, cultural, or geographical significance.

Feature

To give special attention to; display, publicize, or make prominent.

Landmark

A major event or discovery.
An important landmark in human history
A landmark paper in neurosurgery
A landmark ruling/case

Feature

To have or include as a prominent part or characteristic
The play featured two well-known actors.

Landmark

(US) To officially designate a site or building as a landmark.

Feature

To depict or outline the features of.

Landmark

A mark to designate the boundary of land; any mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territory may be known and preserved.

Feature

(Informal) To picture mentally; imagine
Can you feature her in that hat?.

Landmark

Any conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide; some prominent object, as a hill or steeple.

Feature

(obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.

Landmark

A structure that has special significance, such as a building with historical associations;

Feature

An important or main item.

Landmark

An event or accomplishment of great significance; as, Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark of the civil rights movement. Also used attributively, as a landmark court decision.

Feature

(media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.

Landmark

The position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape;
The church steeple provided a convenient landmark

Feature

(film) feature film

Landmark

An event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend;
The agreement was a watershed in the history of both nations

Feature

Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).

Landmark

A mark showing the boundary of a piece of land

Feature

(computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

Landmark

An anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken

Feature

The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.
One of the features of the landscape

Feature

(archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
A feature of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other features at these sites may include small hearths.

Feature

(engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.

Feature

An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.

Feature

(music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.

Feature

(linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.

Feature

(transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.

Feature

(transitive) To star, to contain.

Feature

(intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.

Feature

To have features resembling.

Feature

The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.
What needeth it his feature to descrive?
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature.

Feature

The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance.
It is for homely features to keep home.

Feature

The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.
And to her service bind each living creatureThrough secret understanding of their feature.

Feature

A form; a shape.
So scented the grim feature, and upturnedHis nostril wide into the murky air.

Feature

A prominent aspect of something;
The map showed roads and other features
Generosity is one of his best characteristics

Feature

The characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin;
An expression of pleasure crossed his features
His lineaments were very regular

Feature

The principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater;
The feature tonight is `Casablanca'

Feature

A special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine;
They ran a feature on retirement planning

Feature

An article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles

Feature

Have as a feature;
This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France

Feature

Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner;
She was sporting a new hat

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