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trait Definition

trait (trāt)

noun

  1. a distinguishing quality or characteristic, as of personality
  2. character ()
  3. Rare a stroke, trace, or touch

Etymology: Fr, a draft, line, stroke < L tractus, pp. of trahere, to draw

trait Synonyms

trait

n.

habit, manner, custom, feature, attribute, quality, characteristic, idiosyncrasy, peculiarity, quirk, mannerism, oddity, trick; see also characteristic. See syn. study at quality.

trait Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • inherit: Her eyes are dark green, a trait inherited from her father.
  • endear: Her constant ringing of hands and awkward walk become endearing traits, which set her character aside from the others.
  • possess: Fortunately, you possess good traits for doing this.
  • correlate: Selection on a single trait correlated with feed efficiency would not result in a greater response than direct selection on feed efficiency.
  • exhibit: What is obvious however is that you will expect your ideal project manager to exhibit traits from all four generalized types.
  • annoy: Chew gum, smoke, pick your nose or display any annoying traits or habits.

Adjective modifier

  • agronomic: Basic guidelines for good agricultural practice when growing GM crops with specific agronomic traits should be encouraged.
  • recessive: Dwarfism from impaired longitudinal growth of bones is a recessive trait that affects males more strongly than females.
  • behavioral: A syndrome is a group of related symptoms or behavioral traits.
  • autosomal: While most cases of CJD are sporadic, some are familial, in which case the disease is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait.
  • desirable: Only the remaining Wolves, with desirable traits, would have been selected to breed.
  • polygenic: How do sex chromosomes influence the evolution of polygenic traits?

Modifies a noun

  • locus: All markers, whether selected to cover the genome or to mark trait loci, are PCR-based.
  • anxiety: They found no such effect for most people except those high in trait anxiety.

Noun used with modifier

  • personality: Think about your personality traits do you prefer to work alone or with other people around?
  • sickle: Carriers of Sickle Cell are sometimes said to have ' sickle cell trait ' .
  • thalassaemia: Thalassaemia trait is believed to offer some resistance to malaria.
  • character: For virtue ethics, the problem concerns the question of which character traits are the virtues.
  • Bt: Finally, corn hybrids incorporating this type of Bt trait are not widely planted.
  • herbicide: These are commonly referred to as direct effects of the herbicide tolerance trait.
trait Quotes

Death is an acquired trait.

—Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg

Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his strong tendencies to rivalry, jealousy, and acquisitiveness reinforce.

—James,William

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