Meaning

• A characteristic or quality of a thing.

  "His finest attribute is his kindness."

• (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun, a qualifier.

  "In the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket"."

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

• An option or setting belonging to some object.

  "A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten."

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

  "Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used."

• A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.

Meaning

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

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

  "This poem is attributed to Browning."