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# feature

«feature» in Mova's school dictionary: **an important or interesting part or quality of something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a feature, features); verb (feature, features, featured, featuring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A feature is an important or interesting part or quality of something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feature/#m1)

2) Features are the parts of your face, like eyes, nose and mouth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feature/#m2)

3) A feature is a special article in a newspaper or a programme on a topic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feature/#m3)

4) To feature means to include or show something important, or to appear in something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feature/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In geography, physical features are natural things like rivers, mountains and coasts; human features are things people built, like roads and towns. In English, features of a text (headings, captions) help readers. In maths, features of shapes are sides, corners and edges. In everyday life phones and games have new features. Phrases: «key feature», «physical features», «facial features», «feature film», «featuring».

### examples

- A river is a physical feature of the landscape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feature/#x1)
- The new phone has lots of cool features. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feature/#x2)
- She has her father's features. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feature/#x3)
- Name three features of a non-fiction text. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feature/#x4)
- The film features a talking dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feature/#x5)
- One feature of a cube is that all its faces are squares. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feature/#x6)
- The castle is the main feature of the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feature/#x7)
- Our class project was featured in the school newsletter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feature/#x8)
- But I have found in him one great redeeming feature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feature/#x9)

### note

Countable: features. Verb regular: featured, featuring. «Featuring» on songs or films means «with» (shown as «feat.» or «ft.»). A «feature film» is a full-length film.

### In the corpora

- [Many bots forget everything when you start a new chat, unless a memory feature is switched on.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/11/)
- [Newspaper features include a headline, a photo, a caption and columns.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/22/)
- ["Undocumented feature" is a joking name for a software bug.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/10/)
- [A landmark is a feature that is easy to recognise and remember.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/7/)
- [A political map shows countries, borders and cities, while a physical map shows natural features such as mountains, rivers and heights.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/1-maps-and-scale/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «feature» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feature/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.