| 单词 | attribution |
| 释义 | attribution (once / 12574 pages) n "A wise man once said..." Ever wonder who said that famous quotation? Then you're curious about its attribution. An attribution identifies a source or cause of something — in this case, the person who first said the quote. Attribution often involves identifying the author or source of written material or a work of art. If you want to prove that painting you found in your basement is a van Gogh, you'd produce evidence to ensure proper attribution. The word can be used more generally to indicate the source of anything, whether it's a bombing, climate change, or success. For example, attribution of your success might be hard work and the support of family and friends. WORD FAMILYattribution: attributions+/attributable: unattributable/attribute: attributable, attributed, attributes, attributing, attribution, attributive, reattribute/attributive: attributively/reattribute: reattributes USAGE EXAMPLESHe further added: “It would’ve helped, really, to publish a thorough, precise, historically informed and technically honest attribution report in plain English.” Salon(Dec 31, 2016) In fact, experts are getting better at the science of “climate attribution,” as a new report from the American Meteorological Society shows. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) "We did attribution back to the Russian government," Shawn Henry of CrowdStrike told me before the election. BBC(Dec 21, 2016) 1n assigning to a cause or source the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso Syn|Hypo|Hyper ascription animatism the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones imputationthe attribution to a source or cause externalisation, externalizationattributing to outside causes categorisation, categorization, classification, sorting the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories 2n assigning some quality or character to a person or thing the attribution of language to birds Syn|Hypo|Hyper ascription zoomorphism the attribution of animal forms or qualities to a god categorisation, categorization, classification, sorting the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories |
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