attribute vs noun

attribute

noun
  • A word that qualifies a noun. 

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

  • A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated. 

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

  • A characteristic or quality of a thing. 

  • An option or setting belonging to some object. 

verb
  • To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc. 

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

noun

noun
  • A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English. 

  • An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied. 

verb
  • To convert a word to a noun. 

How often have the words attribute and noun occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )