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(obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.

An important or main item.

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

(film) (feature film).

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

(computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

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. +

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

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

(machine learning) An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.

(music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.

(linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.

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

To star, to contain.

To appear, to make an appearance.

(dated) To have features resembling.

(Western Pennsylvania English) To think about, understand, or imagine.