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📖 Определения и значения для слова attribute

📒 to say or believe that something is the result of a particular thing

  • She attributes her success to hard work and a little luck.
  • The power failure was attributed to the recent storms and high winds.

📒 to say or believe that somebody is responsible for doing something, especially for saying, writing or painting something

  • This play is usually attributed to Shakespeare.
  • a quote that has often been falsely attributed to George Patton

📒 to regard a quality or feature as belonging to somebody/something

  • attribute something The committee refused to attribute blame without further information.
  • attribute something to somebody/something Ancient peoples attributed magical properties to the stones.
  • The goals commonly attributed to management are status, power, salary and security.
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