Feature vs. Landmark

Featurenoun

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

Featurenoun

An important or main item.

Featurenoun

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

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

Featurenoun

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

Featurenoun

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.

Featurenoun

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

Featurenoun

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

Featurenoun

An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed.

Featurenoun

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

Featurenoun

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

Featureverb

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

Featureverb

(transitive) To star, to contain.

Featureverb

(intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.

Featureverb

To have features resembling.

Featurenoun

The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.

Featurenoun

The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance.

Featurenoun

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; as, one of the features of the landscape.

Featurenoun

A form; a shape.

Featurenoun

a prominent aspect of something;

Featurenoun

the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin;

Featurenoun

the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater;

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a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine;

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an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles

Featureverb

have as a feature;

Featureverb

wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner;

Landmarknoun

A recognizable natural or man-made feature used for navigation.

Landmarknoun

A notable location with historical, cultural, or geographical significance.

Landmarknoun

A major, important event.

Landmarkverb

(US) To officially designate a site or building as a landmark.

Landmarknoun

A mark to designate the boundary of land; any mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territory may be known and preserved.

Landmarknoun

Any conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide; some prominent object, as a hill or steeple.

Landmarknoun

A structure that has special significance, such as a building with historical associations;

Landmarknoun

An event or accomplishment of great significance; as, Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark of the civil rights movement. Also used attributively, as a landmark court decision.

Landmarknoun

the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape;

Landmarknoun

an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend;

Landmarknoun

a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land

Landmarknoun

an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken

Landmarknoun

an object or feature of a landscape or town that is easily seen and recognized from a distance, especially one that enables someone to establish their location

Landmarknoun

a building or monument of historical importance

Landmarknoun

the boundary of an area of land, or an object marking this

Landmarknoun

an event or discovery marking an important stage or turning point in something

Landmark

A landmark is a recognizable natural or artificial feature used for navigation, a feature that stands out from its near environment and is often visible from long distances. In modern use, the term can also be applied to smaller structures or features, that have become local or national symbols.