feature: [14] Feature comes ultimately from Latin factūra, a derivative of the verb facere ‘do, make’ which meant literally ‘making, formation’. Elements of this original sense remained when the word reached English via Old French faiture – when John Dymmok wrote in 1600 of ‘horses of a fine feature’, for example, he was referring to their shape or general conformation – but already a semantic narrowing down to the ‘way in which the face is shaped’ had taken place.
This meaning was then distributed, as it were, to the individual components of the face, and hence (in the 17th century) to any distinctive or characteristic part. => difficult, fact, factory, fashion, feasible, feat
feature (n.)
early 14c., "make, form, fashion" (obsolete), from Anglo-French feture, from Old French faiture "deed, action; fashion, shape, form; countenance," from Latin factura "a formation, a working," from past participle stem of facere "make, do, perform" (see factitious).
Sense of "facial characteristic" is mid-14c.; that of "any distinctive part" first recorded 1690s. Entertainment sense is from 1801; in journalism by 1855. Meaning "a feature film" is from 1913. Latin factura also is the source of Spanish hechura, Portuguese feitura, Italian fattura.
feature (v.)
1755, "to resemble, have features resembling," from feature (n.). The sense of "make special display or attraction of" is 1888; entertainment sense from 1897. Related: Featured; featuring.
雙語例句
1. The most arresting feature is the painted wall decoration.
最醒目的特點(diǎn)是繪有圖畫的墻面裝飾。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Wanton violence is now becoming a regular feature of urban life.
肆無忌憚的暴行在城市生活中越來越司空見慣。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Television companies tend to censor bad language in feature films.
電視公司往往會在審查故事片時刪去其中的粗話。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The festival will feature pyrotechnics, live music, and sculptures.
節(jié)日里將有煙花表演、現(xiàn)場音樂會和雕塑展。
來自柯林斯例句
5. The saddles feature a reflective trim for night time visibility.