attributed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of attribute.

   Critics attributed the album's success to its bold new sound.

   The delay was attributed to heavy snow on the tracks.

   Note

   This form makes two kinds of claim: that something has a cause, or that a work has an author. Both take to: the delay was attributed to snow, and a verse can be attributed to an unknown poet. In perfect tenses it follows have (critics have attributed). In the passive it follows be. The same spelling also serves the programmer's adjective, where nothing is credited to anyone.

2. 2
   adjective

   Decorated with an attribute, meaning marked with metadata or a label that describes or modifies the thing it is attached to.

   The attributed class exposed metadata that the framework read at startup.

   Developers scanned each attributed method for the security label before deployment.

   Similarannotated, decorated, tagged

   Note

   A programmer's adjective built on the noun attribute, meaning a declarative tag of metadata fastened to a piece of code. It usually sits directly before the element it marks: the attributed method or class, as Drayton, Albahari and Neward write in C# in a Nutshell (2003). It is not comparable, because code is either attributed or it is not.

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