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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
trait
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a personality traitformal (= a part of your personality)
▪ She shares many of her mother’s personality traits.
endearing qualities/traits etc
▪ Shyness is one of her most endearing qualities.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
▪ In these, the modifier is the selector, and hence presupposes certain traits of the head.
▪ Also, the subjects found that certain traits which they felt strongly about were important to whether they were likeable or not.
genetic
▪ Nocturnal enuresis alone, particularly if primary, is both a disorder of maturation and a genetic trait.
▪ Cultural practices, like genetic traits, are transmitted from individual to individual.
human
▪ Unfortunately, the ability to listen to the problems of another person is not a universal human trait.
other
▪ Of course, as for any other trait, it may be impossible for any one homozygous genotype to achieve the optimum.
▪ Among other traits of character, Xerxes was an aesthete.
▪ Powell shares other traits with Brown as well.
▪ In this section, I discuss other traits for which this difficulty arises.
particular
▪ Biased estimates of variation in reproductive success may also cause the effects of particular phenotypic traits on reproductive success to be overestimated.
▪ Is it the specific disorder, a particular personality trait associated with the disorder, or a general vulnerability to psychiatric disturbance?
personal
▪ Third, one can identify those personal traits of the individual that are related to activism.
▪ Important personal traits for funeral directors are composure, tact, and the ability to communicate easily with the public.
physical
▪ Cetaceans today still carry in their bodies some of the physical traits of their land-dwelling ancestors.
■ NOUN
character
▪ The inviolable Gedge formed character traits as a child that give a fascinating insight into his later life.
▪ The character trait here is over-dependence, lack of autonomy. 2.
▪ But your greatest character trait is your honesty.
▪ It was an innate character trait.
personality
▪ Initially, they defined the personality traits of those with this syndrome: Authoritarians are extremely conventional in their attitudes and morality.
▪ Firstly, children should be able to establish reasons why there are individual differences in personality traits and emotional reactions.
▪ Richard Lugar, for instance, briefly sought the presidency themselves but died of inhibited personality traits on the campaign trail.
▪ What are the personality traits of Chemical Dependency?
▪ For Barber, key personality traits define each of the four types of political personality.
▪ Downs argues that bureaucrats do exhibit personality traits but these may differ.
▪ As a result, they are unable ever to get beyond the personality traits they find irritating.
■ VERB
inherit
▪ In reality, a well-endowed man is likely to have inherited the trait.
▪ The structural changes that are seen in hemoglobin 5 and C disorders are inherited as autosomal recessive traits. 216.
▪ There is a suggestion that offspring do not have an even chance of inheriting a trait from either parent.
▪ At the same time, though, inherited psychological and physiological traits had their dangerous downsides.
share
▪ The Roosevelts and Robinsons shared many of these traits, and added some of their own.
▪ All the witnesses share one trait.
show
▪ She shows both traits assigned to the men, immorality and dishonesty.
▪ The citizens who stepped out of the crowd and ran for office Tuesday showed they had that trait.
▪ Haemoglobin electrophoresis showed sickle cell trait.
▪ She also showed obsessional traits, including rituals concerned with dressing, washing, and general checking.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a genetic trait
▪ Certain personality traits make people more likely to become victims of violent crime.
▪ Does Bryce have any bad traits?
▪ It's a human trait to joke about subjects that make us uncomfortable.
▪ Pride seems to be one of our family traits.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His most noticeable trait was his charm, which he could seemingly turn on at will.
▪ Natural selection is of traits favourable to the survival, not of individuals, but of successive generations.
▪ Of course, I was only displaying the ultimately cliched boomer trait, a tortured denial of my own advancing years.
▪ One should select the essential trait and reproduce it-or, even better, produce it.
▪ Our entrepreneurial drive has long been our distinguishing trait.
▪ She shows both traits assigned to the men, immorality and dishonesty.
▪ The mutation has no functional significance and controls no traits, researchers say.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trait

Trait \Trait\, n. [F., fr. L. tractus, fr. trahere to draw. See Trace, v., and cf. Tract a region, Trace a strap, Tret.]

  1. A stroke; a touch.

    By this single trait Homer makes an essential difference between the Iliad and Odyssey.
    --Broome.

  2. A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as, a trait of character.

    Note: Formerly pronounced tr[=a], as in French, and still so pronounced to some extent in England.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
trait

late 15c., "shot, missiles;" later "a stroke in drawing, a short line" (1580s), from Middle French trait "line, stroke, feature, tract," from Latin tractus "drawing, drawing out, dragging, pulling," later "line drawn, feature," from past participle stem of trahere "to pull, draw" (see tract (n.1)). Sense of "particular feature, distinguishing quality" in English is first recorded 1752.

Wiktionary
trait

n. 1 an identifying characteristic, habit or trend 2 (context computing programming English) In object-oriented programming, an uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.

WordNet
trait

n. a distinguishing feature of your personal nature

Wikipedia
Trait (computer programming)

In computer programming, a trait is a concept used in object-oriented programming, which represents a set of methods that can be used to extend the functionality of a class.

Trait

Trait may refer to:

  • Phenotypic trait in biology, which involve genes and characteristics of organisms
  • Trait (computer programming), a model for structuring object-oriented programs (a template class in the C++ programming language)
  • Trait theory in psychology
Trait (album)

Trait is the first, and only, EP by the industrial rock/metal band Pailhead. The original EP was released in 1988, containing the first four songs in a slightly different order. When re-released on CD in the early 90's, the group's first single ("I Will Refuse" b/w "No Bunny" 12") was added as a bonus.

Usage examples of "trait".

Gala immediately give me everything they have concerning the allomorph trait eradication and demiclone procedures that they developed for the Haluk.

Are you willing to obtain and hand over to Delegate Efrem Sontag all information pertaining to the allomorph trait eradication and demiclone procedures developed by Galapharma for the Haluk, including details and locations of all clandestine demiclone labs that were or are now in operation, plus the total number of human-Haluk demiclones produced there?

Older studies of Haluk genetics confirm that the altered gene is not present in Haluk possessing the allomorph trait.

Buried deep in the anthracite core of my being is a personal trait so hideous, so confounding, a conceit so terrible in its repercussions, that it makes sodomy, pederasty, and barratry on the high seas seem as tame as a Frances Parkinson Keyes novel.

I was then engaged in tracing the exact mechanism by which macromolecules code for inherited traits.

Generosity was a marked trait of his character, an ennobling principle of his nature, the motive power of his actions, and the mainspring of his life.

Since childhood she had known that she was a berserker and maledight, and had prided herself on having learned to control those traits.

Furthermore a stock in general below mediocrity will occasionally, due to some fortuitous but fortunate combination of traits, give rise to an individual of marked ability or even eminence, who will be able to transmit in some degree that valuable new combination of traits to his or her own progeny.

It was Merdeka who sigma-ized the convergent traits of our times and asymptotically congruentizes with them publication-wise.

It was Merdeka who sigmaized the convergent traits of our times and asymptotically congruentizes with them publication-wise.

The boy needed to be shown now, whilst the misdeed was fresh, that derision is a bad trait for a boy to develop.

Proceedings of the Loomis Foundation, the title: Homogeneity of Traits and Longitudinal Patterns of Encoded Behavior in Monozygotic Twins Separated at Birth.

Perrot knew certain traits of Iberville of which De Casson was ignorant, and the abbe knew many depths which Perrot never even vaguely plumbed.

Contemporary theory, to which I subscribe, by the way, argues that aging is a polygenic trait.

While no pyrogenic species are to be found in the British Isles, despite many attempts on the part of our breeders to induce this most valuable trait, so deadly to our shipping in the persons of the French Flamme-de-Gloire and the Spanish Flecha-del-Fuego, the native Sharpspitter breed is notable for producing a venom to incapacitate its prey.