trait

Noun

Meaning

A stroke; a touch.

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

mark chara quirk point character side nature property quality feature mannerism savor element sign thing
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Antonyms

solution review refuse sketch outline certainty
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Hypernyms

attribute

Hyponyms

character nature activity fibre behavior drive

Related terms

treat portrait treaty tract tractate sickle cell trait

Phrases with the word

odd trait general trait ordinary trait boosting trait escalating trait sickle cell trait

Anagrams

Attri ittar ratti tiatr

Examples

A common trait of the various organizations was a romantic longing for a pristine state of things, a return to older cultural traditions, with a strong emphasis on independent, non-conformist thinking. Source: Internet

According to trait theories, introversion and extroversion are part of a continuous dimension with many people in the middle. Source: Internet

According to this line of thinking, the tendency to fill up all available territory seems to be a universal trait of living things, so the Earth should have already been colonized, or at least visited, but no evidence of this exists. Source: Internet

A key trait of ramjet engines is that combustion is done at subsonic speeds. Source: Internet

Also, microsatellites are used for mapping locations within the genome, specifically in genetic linkage analysis/ marker assisted selection to locate a gene or a mutation responsible for a given trait or disease. Source: Internet

A consensus definition of the concept of epigenetic trait as "stably heritable phenotype resulting from changes in a chromosome without alterations in the DNA sequence" was formulated at a Cold Spring Harbor meeting in 2008. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

traipse around traipser traipsing traiteur traitless traitlike