aspect vs feature

aspect

verb
  • To have a particular aspect or type of aspect. 

  • To channel a divine being. 

noun
  • Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass. 

  • One's appearance or expression. 

  • A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event which the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding. 

  • In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy. 

  • The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective. 

  • The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view. 

  • The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope. 

  • Any specific feature, part, or element of something. 

  • The personified manifestation of a deity that represents one or more of its characteristics or functions. 

  • The visual indication of a colour light (or mechanical) signal as displayed to the driver. With colour light signals this would be red, yellow or green. 

  • Prospect; outlook. 

  • A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something. 

feature

verb
  • To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context. 

  • To appear, to make an appearance. 

  • To star, to contain. 

noun
  • An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model. 

  • A beneficial capability of a piece of software. 

  • Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.). 

  • The act of being featured in a piece of music. 

  • Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet. 

  • A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news. 

  • Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site. 

  • An important or main item. 

  • The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down. 

  • The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic. 

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