What does trait mean?

Definitions for trait
treɪt; Brit. also treɪtrait

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. traitnoun

    a distinguishing feature of your personal nature

Wiktionary

  1. traitnoun

    an identifying characteristic, habit or trend

  2. traitnoun

    In object-oriented programming, an uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class's own interface.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Traitnoun

    A stroke; a touch. Scarce English.

    Etymology: trait, Fr.

    By this single trait marks an essential difference between the Iliad and Odyssey; that in the former the people perished by the folly of their kings; in this by their own folly. , Notes on the Odyssey.

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  1. trait

    A trait is a distinguishing quality or characteristic typically belonging to a person, group, or thing. It can refer to physical attributes, behaviors, attitudes, or genetic features. Traits can be inherited or acquired over time.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Trait

    a stroke; a touch

  2. Trait

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

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Trait

    trā, or trāt, n. a drawing: a touch: a feature. [Fr.,—L. tractus, trahĕre, to draw.]

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  1. Attri

  2. ratti

  3. titar

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of trait in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of trait in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of trait in a Sentence

  1. Stephen Curry:

    I've always been challenged my whole career not to let made or missed shots affect what Valuable Player Stephen Curry do on the floor, it's not a good trait for any basketball player to kind of have your game reflect whether you're making or missing shots.

  2. Julia Monk:

    If Caitlin McDonough assume a trait like SSB is a new development and has high costs, its going to be really hard to understand how it could become more and more common from those low initial frequencies, it would have to have really large fitness benefits, or be otherwise impervious to natural selection, for that outcome to be probable.

  3. Mohammadreza Hojat:

    Empathy is a cognitive attribute, not a personality trait, the pressure is really on.

  4. Richard Isaacson:

    Neuroticism is specifically one trait that comes to mind, and past meta-analyses have also show this. Rumination and worry is linked to smaller brain volumes, it's unclear if the stress/neuroinflammation pathway drives this. A biomarker doesn't really exist for this so it's hard to prove.

  5. Mohsin Ali Shaukat:

    The dreams of others must not be the hurdle for your's, but the pain of others must be the part of your version of dream in the way that you could feel the satisfaction because you know deep in your heart that they deserve to be helped because they are in pain for true participation and for the improvement of many lives, The dream must have this essential trait of improving your character by lifting up the moral values of the society”

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