attribute

A characteristic or quality of a thing.

His finest attribute is his kindness.

An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.

The eagle and the bolt of lightning are attributes of Jove.

A word that qualifies a noun.

That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.

An option or setting belonging to some object.

This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.

A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten.

To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.; to affix.

For as this is the liquor of modern historians, nay, perhaps their muse, if we may believe the opinion of Butler, who attributes inspiration to ale, it ought likewise to be the potation of their readers, since every book ought to be read with the same spirit and in the same manner as it is writ.

To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.

This poem is attributed to Browning.

We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.