Noun

• (obsolete) One’s structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
• An important or main item.
• (media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
• Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
• (computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
• 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.
• (archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
• (engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
• (statistics, machine learning) An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed.
• (music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.
• (linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.

Synonyms

• characteristic

Exemple

• all the powres of nature, / Which she by art could vse vnto her will, / And to her seruice bind each liuing creature; / Through secret vnderstanding of their feature.
• The program contained an internal feature, which allowed a user to update display text after each command keystroke.
• one of the features of the landscape
• The most prominent feature of the New England land system was the town grant, which in every case became the territorial basis of a group settlement.
• 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.
• Hyponyms: gender, number, person, tense

Verb

• (transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
• (transitive) To star, to contain.
• (intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.
• (transitive, dated) To have features resembling.

Exemple

• Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love, Deep Purple’s Smoke On The Water and Layla by Derek and the Dominos also featured in the top five.
• More than his talents, Roger grudged him his looks, the brown eyes, golden hair, and oval face, which made people say how Johnny Weir featured his mother.

Noun

• An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.
• A series of events considered appropriate to an epic.
• (computing) In software development, a large or extended user story.

Synonyms

• épopée
• epos

Examples

• The Icelandic epic took all night to recite.
• The book was an epic in four volumes.

Adjective

• Of, or relating to, an epic.
• Momentously heroic; grand in scale or character

Examples

• Synonym: epical
• Beowulf is an epic poem.
• The epic defense was rewarded with the highest military decorations
• China’s epic traffic jam “vanished” [title of article]
• Synonyms: extraordinary, momentous, remarkable
• The after-prom party was truly epic.
• You made an epic mistake.